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This Saturday on The Yaron Brook Show: Trump Won, What Next?

On November 12, 2016, Yaron Brook discusses the outcome of the election, which are the most important issues the country will face, and the potential for positive change. He also weighs in on what’s next for the United States and how to find hope in the days ahead. Yaron argues that it is now time to exercise our voice and make rational ideas viable in order to ensure the long-term success of our country.
Culture And Society

Yaron Brook on the Role of Ideas in History

In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, Yaron Brook comments on the unusually intellectual response to his talks in Europe and illustrates how philosophy shapes history, particularly the positive impact of Aristotle’s ideas. Also, Brook discusses why he won’t debate Stefan Molyneux, the political and economical state of Greece, “race realism” and free will.
Government And Business

Previously on The Yaron Brook Show: Is Sweden a Socialist Utopia?

You have probably seen a “meme” or two suggesting that Sweden is a socialist paradise. What exactly are we to make of these “memes”? In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, guest host Amanda Maxham interviews Carl Svanberg to discuss the myth of socialist Sweden, the price of “free” health care and whether the welfare state is compatible with freedom and justice. Maxham wraps up the show with a discussion of genetically engineered flowers.
Culture And Society

Yaron Brook on Reason vs. Mysticism

In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, originally airing live from London on October 23, Yaron Brook describes some of his impressions of Europe. He discusses our age’s fundamental conflict between reason and mysticism and explains how mysticism conditions people to authoritarianism. Brook also examines the relation between mysticism and socialism and how Progressive education mass-produces ignorant emotionalists. And more!

Further Reading

Ayn Rand | 1957
For the New Intellectual

The Moral Meaning of Capitalism

An industrialist who works for nothing but his own profit guiltlessly proclaims his refusal to be sacrificed for the “public good.”
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Ayn Rand | 1961
The Virtue of Selfishness

The Objectivist Ethics

What is morality? Why does man need it? — and how the answers to these questions give rise to an ethics of rational self-interest.
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