Live from Sydney, Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos join me on stage to discuss capitalism, liberty, personhood, energy policy, Israel and antisemitism and much more. Rough timestamps are here: 00:00 Brett’s welcome and introduction 02:32 Nikos on “What is Capitalism?” 04:21 Yaron on “What is Capitalism?” 07:33 Brett on the relationship between personhood and capitalism. 10:02 Nikos on why progress is not inevitable. 12:06 Yaron on humans vs other animals 15:14 Yaron on why capitalism is retreating in the West. 19:56 Brett on the self similarity of the mind 25:40: Yaron on Israel and her allies 32:33 Brett on protectionism and nationalism 33:17 Nikos on defending your allies and nihilism. 37:01 Yaron on faith, collectivism and nationalism. 42:13 Brett on “concentrated losses, dispersed gains”. 43:50 Yaron on free trade and tarrifs 49:52: Yaron’s iPhone 54:52 Brett invokes Deutsch’s pattern, anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism. 56:01 Nikos on Marx’s role as an antisemitic anticapitalist and “secondhandedness”. 1:02:21 Brett on environmentalism and anti humanism 1:05:22 Nikos on energy policy 1:07:25 Yaron on saving the planet. 1:11:21 Brett on the death trap that is planet Earth 1:13:15 Question 1: What is an Objectivist foreign policy? 1:18:21 Question 2: Is democracy necessary for protecting individual human rights? 1:25:31 Question 3: What explains the anti-ANZAC phenomenon in Australia? 1:30:01 Question 4: Should the government protect individual property rights? Remarks on “the minimum wage”. 1:32:53 Question 5: Should we be pessimistic about “woke”, “DEI” and the state of universities? 1:41:33 Question 6: Has China managed to achieve a beneficial separation of their political and economic systems? 1:47:02 Question 7: What is the role of the Fed in the USA? Is it necessary?
