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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Syria’s Collapse: Jihadists Replace Assad
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo analyze the moral significance of the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and its replacement by jihadists.
Among the topics covered:
Why authoritarian regimes, like Assad’s, are fundamentally weak and unstable;
How the future of the Middle East is constrained by anti-freedom ideologies;
How the media coverage of Assad’s fall is blind to the crucial role of ideas;
How altruism prevents us from seeing others regimes, like Hamas, as evil;
Why America’s security depends on deterr...