The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
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Artemis II Is Inspiring – but NASA Is Holding Back Space Exploration
27 mins; April 03, 2026
Why Billionaires Don’t Owe California Anything
64 hours 1 min; March 26, 2026
Trump Is Fighting for American Freedom Overseas While Killing It at Home
45 mins; March 21, 2026
Rubio’s Mystical and Racist View of the West is Anti-Civilization
53 mins; March 19, 2026
Anthropic vs. Trump: The Moral Responsibility of Tech Companies
47 mins; March 12, 2026
America Responds to Decades of Iranian Aggression
19 mins; March 03, 2026
Choosing Life: An Interview with ‘The Green Prince’ Mosab Hassan Yousef
60 hours 19 mins; March 02, 2026
How the SCOTUS Tariff Decision Helps Slow the Advance of Authoritarianism
72 hours 21 mins; February 27, 2026
Ayn Rand, Immigrant: The Story of Her Journey to America
36 mins; February 26, 2026
Is Trump Distinctively Responsible for the Rise of Political Violence?
60 hours 8 mins; February 19, 2026
Fear of Progress: The Quest To End Autonomous Driving
0 secs; February 12, 2026
Values Are Made, Not Found: Watch Gregory Salmieri’s Talk on “Conceiving Values”
90 hours 28 mins; February 11, 2026
Texas A&M’s Ban on Plato: Anti-”Woke” Censorship?
58 mins; February 05, 2026
Does Success Require Sacrifice?
61 hours 54 mins; January 29, 2026
Renee Good Killing and Tribalism in America
76 hours 11 mins; January 23, 2026
Iranian Theocracy on the Brink? Why Protesters Deserve Our Moral Support
40 mins; January 14, 2026
Enlightenment on Trial: The Real Lessons of the American and French Revolutions
49 mins; January 13, 2026
The Constitution Ignored: Trump’s War on Venezuela
71 hours 31 mins; January 08, 2026
Newton Versus Descartes on the Exactness of Mathematics
18 mins; January 07, 2026
Steven Pinker’s Weak Defense of Enlightenment Values vs. Religion
69 hours 33 mins; January 06, 2026
Re-release: Christmas Is About Joy, Not Guilt
36 mins; December 24, 2025
RFK Jr.’s Irrational Anti-Vaccine Policies: Interview with Dr. Amesh Adalja
42 mins; December 18, 2025
How Drug Boats Could Be Used to Rationalize an Unjust War with Venezuela
50 mins; December 11, 2025
Spinoza: A Hero of the Enlightenment
28 mins; December 08, 2025
ICE Raids vs. Rule of Law: Interviewing Institute for Justice’s Josh Windham
54 mins; December 04, 2025
Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Heritage, and Conservatism’s Moral Decay
67 hours 43 mins; November 22, 2025
Mamdani’s Victory: How Bad is it For America?
37 mins; November 21, 2025
Trump’s Un-American, Unconstitutional Tariff Scheme
77 hours 9 mins; November 19, 2025
Saving the Enlightenment
85 hours 46 mins; November 18, 2025
Mamdani’s Socialist War on Gifted Kids
49 mins; November 13, 2025
The Origin of Life, Agency & Purpose: Terrence Deacon’s Theory
80 hours 2 mins; November 11, 2025
When It’s Rational to Blame “Both Sides”
67 hours 34 mins; November 06, 2025
Do Nobel Prize-Winning Economists Get Why Nations Fail?
28 mins; November 03, 2025
How Friendship Can Be Selfish
74 hours 37 mins; October 30, 2025
Integrating Science and Free Will
108 hours 26 mins; October 24, 2025
Defending Embryo Screening from Irrational Opposition
61 hours 43 mins; October 23, 2025
Principles of a Proper Foreign Policy
58 mins; October 20, 2025
The Injustice of the New Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal
34 mins; October 17, 2025
Understanding “Woke” Ideology: Books by Yascha Mounk and Chris Rufo
102 hours 2 mins; October 14, 2025
It’s Up to You: Making Choices
15 mins; October 14, 2025
Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza?
61 hours 27 mins; October 13, 2025
Patrick Deneen and the Right’s War on Freedom
56 mins; October 06, 2025
What Is Western Civilization?
66 hours 59 mins; September 29, 2025
The Injustice of Recognizing a Palestinian State
28 mins; September 29, 2025
Trump vs. Kimmel: The Tribal Weaponization of the FCC against Free Speech
57 mins; September 29, 2025
Trump’s Anti-Capitalist Control Over Businesses
67 hours 53 mins; September 22, 2025
Charlie Kirk’s Murder: Who Normalized Political Violence?
39 mins; September 15, 2025
The Road to Fascism (and Are We on It?)
57 mins; September 10, 2025
Why Trump’s Antitrust Has No “Monopoly” on Moral Corruption
60 hours 0 mins; September 08, 2025
“Is Atlas Shrugging?” by Ayn Rand
52 mins; September 08, 2025
How NOT to Explain Mamdani’s Socialist Revival
56 mins; August 28, 2025
Immigration Enforcement and the Betrayal of Due Process
27 mins; August 25, 2025
The Palestinians’ Most Deadly Weapon Against Israel: Altruism
53 mins; August 21, 2025
Was Ayn Rand Anti-Family?
45 mins; August 14, 2025
What Went Wrong With Capitalism — A Review of Ruchir Sharma’s Book
81 hours 43 mins; August 11, 2025
Abortion Bans vs. Women’s Lives
59 mins; August 08, 2025
Trump vs. CBS: How Government Pressures Companies to Self-Censor
71 hours 52 mins; August 04, 2025
Profit Without Apology: The Moral Case for Business
0 secs; July 25, 2025
Highlights from the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference
15 mins; July 21, 2025
Tal Tsfany Unveils ARI’s Ambitions for Mainstreaming Objectivism
67 hours 34 mins; July 14, 2025
Ben Bayer on America’s Need to Declare Independence from Altruism
89 hours 50 mins; July 14, 2025
How Immigration Restrictions Cripple American Businesses
59 mins; July 06, 2025
School Choice: Matt Bateman on Understanding Education Freedom
64 hours 10 mins; June 27, 2025
News Roundup
32 mins; June 23, 2025
Preview of the Objectivist Conference 2025
24 mins; June 18, 2025
The L.A. Riots and Mass Deportation: Both Evil
57 mins; June 16, 2025
A Central Planner’s Trojan Horse: The Technological Republic
54 mins; June 09, 2025
Joe Rogan vs. Douglas Murray: Who’s Right About Trusting Experts?
69 hours 12 mins; June 02, 2025
Reading Reform Beyond Phonics | Sam Weaver
60 hours 36 mins; June 01, 2025
The Making of the Atom Bomb | Evan Picoult
95 hours 54 mins; May 30, 2025
Trump’s Display of Arbitrary Immigration Power
67 hours 26 mins; May 19, 2025
Racism: What It Is and Why It Persists | Gregory Salmieri
87 hours 16 mins; May 16, 2025
Why Objectivity Demands a First-Handed Foreign Policy | Scott McDonald
59 mins; May 13, 2025
The ARI Bookshelf Explores Abundance
83 hours 52 mins; May 12, 2025
How Capitalists Are Exploited
54 mins; May 12, 2025
Aristotle and Darwin: Antagonists or Kindred Spirits? | James Lennox
89 hours 12 mins; May 08, 2025
How to Recognize “Package-Deals”
59 mins; May 06, 2025
The New Iran Deal: Trump Recycles Obama Amoralism
50 mins; May 05, 2025
An Introduction to Psychology | Gena Gorlin
88 hours 35 mins; May 01, 2025
21st-Century Revolutions in Medicine, Health Sciences, and Biotechnology | Amesh Adalja
60 hours 34 mins; April 29, 2025
Private Space Entrepreneurs vs. NASA: How Freedom Fuels Rockets
44 mins; April 28, 2025
The Revolutionary, Secular Concept of Individual Rights | Ben Bayer
59 mins; April 24, 2025
Philosophy of Math | Harry Binswanger
57 mins; April 22, 2025
Does Targeting Columbia University Target Intellectual Freedom?
58 mins; April 21, 2025
Why Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message Is So Wrong on Palestine | ARI Bookshelf
85 hours 27 mins; April 17, 2025
Socratic Wisdom | Jason Rheins
60 hours 32 mins; April 15, 2025
Trump’s Authoritarian War on Trade
68 hours 30 mins; April 14, 2025
Marx vs. the Individual | Nikos Sotirakopoulos
60 hours 32 mins; April 10, 2025
Objectivity in One-to-One Conversations | Jean Moroney
61 hours 21 mins; April 08, 2025
Debunking the ‘Not Real Socialism’ Myth
46 mins; April 07, 2025
‘From Heaven Through the World to Hell’: Goethe’s Faust as Romantic Hero | Nicolas Krusek
57 mins; April 04, 2025
Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes | ARI Bookshelf
94 hours 55 mins; April 01, 2025
Why Business Leaders Won’t Object to Trump’s Tariffs
56 mins; March 31, 2025
How to Value Friendship | Tristan de Liège
60 hours 56 mins; March 27, 2025
America’s History of Immigration Restrictions | Agustina Vergara Cid
38 mins; March 25, 2025
USAID Corruption: Deeper Than You Think
43 mins; March 24, 2025
Egoism Without Permission – It Begins with Desire | Tara Smith
88 hours 5 mins; March 20, 2025
Freely Determined by Kennon M. Sheldon | ARI Bookshelf
87 hours 44 mins; March 18, 2025
Why the Ayn Rand Institute Comments on Current Events
0 secs; March 17, 2025
Why the Ayn Rand Institute Comments on Current Events
0 secs; March 17, 2025