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The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast

The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast explores pressing cultural issues from the perspective of Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism.

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50 episodes

May 13, 2025•—

Why Objectivity Demands a First-Handed Foreign Policy | Scott McDonald

May 16, 2025•—

Racism: What It Is and Why It Persists | Gregory Salmieri

May 19, 2025•—

Trump’s Display of Arbitrary Immigration Power

May 30, 2025•—

The Making of the Atom Bomb | Evan Picoult

Jun 1, 2025•—

Reading Reform Beyond Phonics | Sam Weaver

Jun 2, 2025•—

Joe Rogan vs. Douglas Murray: Who’s Right About Trusting Experts?

Jun 9, 2025•—

A Central Planner’s Trojan Horse: The Technological Republic

Jun 16, 2025•—

The L.A. Riots and Mass Deportation: Both Evil

Jun 18, 2025•—

Preview of the Objectivist Conference 2025

Jun 23, 2025•—

News Roundup

Jun 27, 2025•—

School Choice: Matt Bateman on Understanding Education Freedom

Jul 6, 2025•—

How Immigration Restrictions Cripple American Businesses

Jul 14, 2025•—

Ben Bayer on America’s Need to Declare Independence from Altruism

Jul 14, 2025•—

Tal Tsfany Unveils ARI’s Ambitions for Mainstreaming Objectivism

Jul 21, 2025•—

Highlights from the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference

Jul 25, 2025•—

Profit Without Apology: The Moral Case for Business

Aug 4, 2025•—

Trump vs. CBS: How Government Pressures Companies to Self-Censor

Aug 8, 2025•—

Abortion Bans vs. Women’s Lives

Aug 11, 2025•—

What Went Wrong With Capitalism — A Review of Ruchir Sharma’s Book

Aug 14, 2025•—

Was Ayn Rand Anti-Family?

Aug 21, 2025•—

The Palestinians’ Most Deadly Weapon Against Israel: Altruism

Aug 25, 2025•—

Immigration Enforcement and the Betrayal of Due Process

Aug 28, 2025•—

How NOT to Explain Mamdani’s Socialist Revival

Sep 8, 2025•—

“Is Atlas Shrugging?” by Ayn Rand

Sep 8, 2025•—

Why Trump’s Antitrust Has No “Monopoly” on Moral Corruption

Sep 10, 2025•—

The Road to Fascism (and Are We on It?)

Sep 15, 2025•—

Charlie Kirk’s Murder: Who Normalized Political Violence?

Sep 22, 2025•—

Trump’s Anti-Capitalist Control Over Businesses

Sep 29, 2025•—

Trump vs. Kimmel: The Tribal Weaponization of the FCC against Free Speech

Sep 29, 2025•—

The Injustice of Recognizing a Palestinian State

Sep 29, 2025•—

What Is Western Civilization?

Oct 6, 2025•—

Patrick Deneen and the Right’s War on Freedom

Oct 13, 2025•—

Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza?

Oct 14, 2025•—

It’s Up to You: Making Choices

Oct 14, 2025•—

Understanding “Woke” Ideology: Books by Yascha Mounk and Chris Rufo

Oct 17, 2025•—

The Injustice of the New Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal

Oct 20, 2025•—

Principles of a Proper Foreign Policy

Oct 23, 2025•—

Defending Embryo Screening from Irrational Opposition

Oct 24, 2025•—

Integrating Science and Free Will

Oct 30, 2025•—

How Friendship Can Be Selfish

Nov 3, 2025•—

Do Nobel Prize-Winning Economists Get Why Nations Fail?

Nov 11, 2025•—

The Origin of Life, Agency & Purpose: Terrence Deacon’s Theory

Nov 13, 2025•—

Mamdani’s Socialist War on Gifted Kids

Nov 18, 2025•—

Saving the Enlightenment

Nov 19, 2025•—

Trump’s Un-American, Unconstitutional Tariff Scheme

Nov 21, 2025•—

Mamdani’s Victory: How Bad is it For America?

Nov 22, 2025•—

Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Heritage, and Conservatism’s Moral Decay

Dec 4, 2025•—

ICE Raids vs. Rule of Law: Interviewing Institute for Justice’s Josh Windham

Dec 8, 2025•—

Spinoza: A Hero of the Enlightenment

Dec 11, 2025•—

The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast

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