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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Jordan Peterson’s Sophomoric Attack on Ayn Rand
Description: In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer offer the Ayn Rand Institute’s response to Jordan Peterson’s recent attack on Ayn Rand on his podcast of November 16, 2023.
Among the topics covered:
Peterson’s recent anti-Enlightenment conservative activism;
Why Rand’s view of self-interest is not hedonistic but values-based;
How Peterson argues for collectivism from the non-existence of an enduring self;
How Peterson sells collectivism by packaging sacrifice with individual responsibility;
Peterson’s impoverished view of the free market (and of science);
His shallow reading of Rand’s characters as shallow.
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