Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEnlightenment on Trial: The Real Lessons of the American and French Revolutions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTl2m5StrvQ Podcast audio: The crimes of the French Revolution have long been regarded as indicting Enlightenment ide…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Constitution Ignored: Trump’s War on Venezuela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28TpOvna_78 Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Onkar Ghate, Elan Journo and Ben Bayer …
3 months, 1 week ago
Newton Versus Descartes on the Exactness of Mathematics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shwbIXkaZPs Podcast audio: This talk comparing Newton and Descartes approach to mathematics by David Bakker was recor…
3 months, 1 week ago
Steven Pinker’s Weak Defense of Enlightenment Values vs. Religion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClmXn3-j2t4 Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer discuss a rec…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Re-release: Christmas Is About Joy, Not Guilt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hJO4ofx6VU Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, originally released on December 23, 202…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
RFK Jr.’s Irrational Anti-Vaccine Policies: Interview with Dr. Amesh Adalja
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI3qhwVi1Eg Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Samantha Watkins interviews Dr. Amesh A…
4 months ago
How Drug Boats Could Be Used to Rationalize an Unjust War with Venezuela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBSu1A2_BSg Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss the r…
4 months, 1 week ago
Spinoza: A Hero of the Enlightenment
Podcast audio: This talk by Alex Silverman was recorded live on July 2nd in Boston, MA as part of the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference and is avail…
4 months, 1 week ago
ICE Raids vs. Rule of Law: Interviewing Institute for Justice’s Josh Windham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KEOmlA-YRo Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Agustina Vergara Cid interviews Josh Wi…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Heritage, and Conservatism’s Moral Decay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgur8cEOpnk Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Nikos Sotirakopoulos and ARI’s senior i…
4 months, 4 weeks ago