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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Ayn Rand on Watergate
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Harry Binswanger discuss Ayn Rand's little-known analysis of the Watergate scandal, fifty years after the Congressional hearings. They draw attention to how Rand's evaluation differed from the conventional commentary of the day, and her analysis of how pragmatism and the mixed economy function as the deepest causes behind political scandals like Watergate.
Among the topics covered:
Why Ayn Rand didn’t want to write about the scandal at first and why she later decided to do so;
Rand’s evaluation of Nixon in the decades before the scandal;
Rand's evaluation of t...