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This Saturday on The Yaron Brook Show: Intellectual Property Rights and You with Adam Mossoff

Confused about the need for and justification for intellectual property rights? In this episode, Yaron Brook and Adam Mossoff, Director of Academic Programs and a Senior Scholar at the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, address intellectual property rights, what it means to the individual and government’s role as protector.
Culture And Society

The Yaron Brook Show: Ask Me Anything

In this episode Yaron comments on the terrorist attacks in Nice, France, the failed coup in Turkey and answers questions such as: Is America still the best country to live in? Why do people think it is impractical to militarily defeat our enemies? Why does he argue for free immigration to the US, but not to Israel?
Culture And Society

The Yaron Brook Show: The Theme of the RNC

In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, airing July 23 on AM 560 The Answer, Yaron Brook comments on the Republican National Convention’s un-American theme of hysterical fear and discusses the virtues of free trade and the evils of protectionism, the government’s role, if any, in negotiating trade agreements like NAFTA, Donald Trump’s views on free speech and what one can do to advance the cause of freedom.
Culture And Society

The Yaron Brook Show: Celebrating Americanism — Live From OCON 2016

In this special episode of The Yaron Brook Show, airing July 2 from OCON 2016, Jonathan Hoenig, portfolio manager at Capitalistpig Hedge Fund LLC and a Fox News Contributor and Steve Simpson, director of Legal Studies at ARI and editor of Defending Free Speech, join Yaron Brook to discuss whether America’s Independence Day is still worth celebrating, why the entrepreneurship of Silicon Valley, Seattle and Bellevue represents the best of America, how the whole world has benefitted from the American revolution, the existential and ideological threat to free speech and Steve Simpson’s new book Defending Free Speech.
Culture And Society

The Yaron Brook Show: Racism Is Evil

In this recent episode of The Yaron Brook Show, which aired July 9 on AM 560 The Answer, Yaron Brook argues that racism is evil because it is a form of collectivism and that “colorblind” individualism is the only moral alternative. In the discussion, Yaron touches upon topics such as institutionalized racism in America, the racism of “quotas” and affirmative action, the facts about crime in America and the virtues of Dallas Police Chief David Brown.

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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