Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTrump’s Display of Arbitrary Immigration Power
https://youtu.be/VUYooprteeU Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Agustina Vergara Cid analyze how the Trump administration’s immigration policy has escal…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Racism: What It Is and Why It Persists | Gregory Salmieri
https://youtu.be/RclwB5luKek Podcast audio: Ayn Rand denounced racism as “the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.” She also rejected as collectivist many of the measures being advoca…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Why Objectivity Demands a First-Handed Foreign Policy | Scott McDonald
https://youtu.be/2yQWRvrbVUI Podcast audio: Foreign policy is both a political activity and a field of applied ethics. However, the metaphysical and epistemological premises held by theorists and pra…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The ARI Bookshelf Explores Abundance
https://youtu.be/LVNSnbdEo0o Podcast audio: In this episode of The ARI Bookshelf, Onkar Ghate, Tristan de Liège, and Robertas Bakula discuss Abundance, the recent best-selling book by Ezra Klein and …
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
How Capitalists Are Exploited
https://youtu.be/0R_RjyOJeI4 Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer, Robertas Bakula, and Tristan de Liège explore how the mixed economy enables the unjust exploi…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Aristotle and Darwin: Antagonists or Kindred Spirits? | James Lennox
https://youtu.be/7Wjrmh8CjAk Podcast audio: As a historian and philosopher of biology, much of Dr. James Lennox’s research has focused on the philosophical foundations of history’s two greatest biolo…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Recognize “Package-Deals”
https://youtu.be/sNtIs4UmXns Podcast audio: The most pernicious ideas are often injected into the culture by the method of “package-dealing” — the attempt to integrate the unintegratable. Expanding o…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The New Iran Deal: Trump Recycles Obama Amoralism
https://youtu.be/S53avG169mw Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo and Ben Bayer discuss the Trump administration’s move to restart nuclear talks with Iran by …
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
An Introduction to Psychology | Gena Gorlin
https://youtu.be/Ff78OyGNA40 Podcast audio: This sample class by Gena Gorlin is based on the full-length ARU course of the same name. The full course explores the major schools of thought, methods of…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
21st-Century Revolutions in Medicine, Health Sciences, and Biotechnology | Amesh Adalja
https://youtu.be/oMFbMFvDJ50 Podcast audio: In this talk, Dr. Amesh Adalja details innovative new developments in science that will enhance the lives of individuals. Topics include transplantation of…
Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago