Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchReading Reform Beyond Phonics | Sam Weaver
https://youtu.be/iVJOTxv-tWk Podcast audio: American schools have long performed dismally at providing the education children need to read well. A mo…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Making of the Atom Bomb | Evan Picoult
https://youtu.be/o615h8druDE Podcast audio: The creation of the atom bomb during WWII was an extraordinary achievement, dramatized in part in the mov…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Trump’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 T…
9 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…
9 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 …
9 months, 1 week 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 Abundanc…
9 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 explo…
9 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 philoso…
9 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 at…
9 months, 2 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 administra…
9 months, 3 weeks ago