The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
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The ARI Bookshelf Explores Three Books on the Influence of Christianity on Western Culture
82 hours 8 mins; March 14, 2025
Behind the Scenes: Ayn Rand’s West Point Lecture (1974–2024)
86 hours 24 mins; March 11, 2025
Trump’s Betrayal of Ukraine
43 mins; March 10, 2025
Karl Popper’s Rejection of Induction
59 mins; March 06, 2025
Will Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post Defend “Personal Liberties and Free Markets”?
48 mins; March 05, 2025
Cashing In on Objectivism
89 hours 13 mins; March 04, 2025
The Marxists’ Exploitation Myth
50 mins; March 03, 2025
The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger: ARI Bookshelf Discussion
92 hours 18 mins; March 01, 2025
Does Forgiveness Heal — or Whitewash Evil?
56 mins; February 24, 2025
War, Politics, Ideas: A Panel on Foreign Policy
93 hours 58 mins; February 20, 2025
How to Think About Current Events
89 hours 45 mins; February 18, 2025
Israel and Trump’s Humiliating Gaza Deals
44 mins; February 17, 2025
Philosophy, Work, and Business | Don Watkins and Tal Tsfany
90 hours 16 mins; February 11, 2025
Google’s Real Crime? Being Too Good. The Antitrust War Exposed
41 mins; February 10, 2025
Interview with Energy Entrepreneur Bud Brigham: ARI Donor Roundtable
58 mins; February 03, 2025
The Dramatic Injustice of the January 6 Pardons
55 mins; January 27, 2025
Facebook’s Reversal on Content-Moderation and ‘Free Speech’
0 secs; January 20, 2025
David Goggins, Suffering, and the Pursuit of Values
42 mins; January 13, 2025
Jordan Peterson vs Ayn Rand on Finding Purpose in Life
0 secs; January 06, 2025
Christmas Is About Joy, Not Guilt
0 secs; December 30, 2024
Syria’s Collapse: Jihadists Replace Assad
43 mins; December 30, 2024
The UnitedHealthCare CEO Shooting: America’s Persecuted Minority, Targeted Again
35 mins; December 23, 2024
Behind-the-Scenes of Ayn Rand’s Second Interview with Mike Wallace
35 mins; December 16, 2024
What Would Mass Deportations Mean for Freedom in America?
0 secs; December 09, 2024
The Shameless Reporting on Israel’s Wars
27 mins; December 02, 2024
Do Americans Have an Irrational, Religious Obsession With Work?
53 mins; November 25, 2024
The 2024 U.S. Election: A Postmortem Analysis
73 hours 12 mins; November 18, 2024
Abortion Rights and the U.S. Election
51 mins; November 04, 2024
Two Ayn Rand Biographies Not Worth Your Time
56 mins; October 28, 2024
Sixty Years of The Virtue of Selfishness
60 hours 44 mins; October 21, 2024
A Year After October 7: What the Conflict Is Actually About
46 mins; October 08, 2024
Space: The New Commercial Frontier
63 hours 53 mins; October 07, 2024
The Vicious Antitrust Case Against Google
66 hours 32 mins; September 30, 2024
Trump and Harris on Immigration
66 hours 2 mins; September 23, 2024
How to Defend Free Speech
67 hours 6 mins; September 20, 2024
Who is a Communist?
30 mins; September 18, 2024
How America’s 9/11 Response Enabled October 7
44 mins; September 16, 2024
Contrarians of the New Right
8 mins; September 14, 2024
Free Speech as a Right and a Way of Life
100 hours 5 mins; September 11, 2024
Was Ayn Rand a Jewish Thinker?
59 mins; September 10, 2024
We Ignore the Unconditional Right to Self-Defense at Our Peril
7 mins; September 08, 2024
Neglected Victims, Empowered Cartels
5 mins; September 04, 2024
Why U.S. Failed in Afghanistan. No, It’s Not What You Think.
6 mins; September 03, 2024
The Democrats’ Devious Appeal to ‘Freedom’
59 mins; September 02, 2024
Debunking the Supernaturalism That Haunts Secular Ethics
26 mins; August 27, 2024
Don Watkins and Aaron Fried on How to Accelerate Your Understanding of Objectivism
58 mins; August 26, 2024
The Problem with Pro-Immigration Arguments
74 hours 44 mins; August 26, 2024
The Supreme Court’s NetChoice Decision: Online Free Speech on the Brink
61 hours 26 mins; August 19, 2024
Evaluating the Trans Movement
63 hours 11 mins; August 12, 2024
Ten Commandments and DEI in Public Schools vs. the First Amendment
52 mins; August 09, 2024
The Secular Moral Alternative to Dawkins and Ayaan Hirsi Ali
37 mins; August 05, 2024
Why Socialists Fear the Republican Party Platform
48 mins; July 29, 2024
The Trump Assassination Attempt and the Violent Climate of Tribalism
100 hours 16 mins; July 22, 2024
Are We the Soviets? A Reply to Niall Ferguson
43 mins; July 15, 2024
Chevron Overturned
74 hours 25 mins; July 08, 2024
Has Neuroscience Debunked Free Will?: Response to Robert Sapolsky
21 mins; July 01, 2024
Fueling an Intellectual Movement
90 hours 50 mins; June 26, 2024
Egoism Without Permission: An Interview with Tara Smith
52 mins; June 13, 2024
OCON 2024: The Pre-Game Show
0 secs; June 11, 2024
Understanding the Trump Phenomenon
81 hours 39 mins; June 10, 2024
The Chaotic Trump-RFK Libertarian Convention
52 mins; June 03, 2024
DEI’s Secret Appeal
0 secs; May 27, 2024
Harry Binswanger Comments on the Columbia Protests – 1968 and Today
47 mins; May 20, 2024
Why Today’s Universities Don’t Care About Plagiarism: An Interview with Ben Bayer
49 mins; May 20, 2024
The Divestment Crusade Against Israel
51 mins; May 13, 2024
Milton Friedman vs Ayn Rand: How to Change the World
58 mins; May 06, 2024
The Outrageous Public Support for the Pro-Hamas Protests
58 mins; April 29, 2024
Why Do Philosophers Keep Getting Ayn Rand Wrong?
57 mins; April 22, 2024
Iran attacks Israel
23 mins; April 15, 2024
The 2024 Elections
36 mins; April 15, 2024
Analyzing Javier Milei’s Interview at AynRandCon
87 hours 3 mins; April 11, 2024
What’s Wrong with California’s Ethnic Studies Mandate?
69 hours 18 mins; April 08, 2024
The Shameful UN Resolution Demanding an Israeli Ceasefire
43 mins; April 01, 2024
Defend Apple Against the DOJ
32 mins; March 25, 2024
A Legal Crisis in Immigration
69 hours 38 mins; March 25, 2024
Biden’s Price Control ‘Strike Force’
51 mins; March 18, 2024
Does Fear of God Ground Morality?
18 mins; March 13, 2024
Zack Snyder on The Fountainhead
24 mins; March 13, 2024
How Biden Subverts Israel’s War on Hamas
38 mins; March 11, 2024
The Alabama IVF Ruling: The Dead End of Anti-Abortion Logic
58 mins; March 04, 2024
Tucker Carlson’s Glorification of the Putin Regime
52 mins; February 26, 2024
Why No One Wins from Today’s Tribal Political Battles
60 hours 27 mins; February 19, 2024
Revealing Attacks on Taylor Swift and Tech CEOs
83 hours 57 mins; February 12, 2024
Ayn Rand: A Philosophical Life
62 hours 27 mins; February 05, 2024
Three Myths about Ayn Rand
42 mins; January 29, 2024
Interview with Coleman Hughes: The End of Race Politics
54 mins; January 24, 2024
The Good Empowering Evil: Israel, the U.S., and the West
48 mins; January 22, 2024
The Plagiarism Ethics Scandal Nobody Is Talking About
59 mins; January 15, 2024
The Manosphere: Tonic or Poison for Men?
51 mins; January 08, 2024
New Ideal: From, And To, Intellectual Mavericks
25 mins; January 01, 2024
Should Universities Dump the Humanities?
70 hours 58 mins; December 25, 2023
The Real Scandal Underlying Campus Antisemitism
47 mins; December 18, 2023
Effective Egoism: Making the Case for Selfishness
64 hours 29 mins; December 11, 2023
Should We Have Immigration in a Welfare State?
64 hours 4 mins; December 07, 2023
Milei’s Election in Argentina: Is There an Ayn Rand Connection?
61 hours 57 mins; November 27, 2023
What Antisemitism Is
42 mins; November 26, 2023
Jordan Peterson’s Sophomoric Attack on Ayn Rand
61 hours 3 mins; November 20, 2023
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Abandons Atheism for Christianity
56 mins; November 19, 2023
International Law vs. War
40 mins; November 17, 2023
The Ongoing Debate Over Reading Education
70 hours 28 mins; November 13, 2023