Jennifer Burns

And that's where Rand's ideas catch fire. So I think a lot about that, about how they trickle through different levels of society and then how ideas collide with experience, I think is critical.

And that's where Rand's ideas catch fire. So I think a lot about that, about how they trickle through different levels of society and then how ideas collide with experience, I think is critical.

When I think about this sort of historical path of communism and the kind of logics and dynamics of communism, I mean, in many ways, it has some echoes with Rand in that, you know, the ideology in its purest form is almost, it's a rationalist ideology of some ways. It's an analysis of history and how things are supposed to be. And I think you mentioned Hannah Arendt.

When I think about this sort of historical path of communism and the kind of logics and dynamics of communism, I mean, in many ways, it has some echoes with Rand in that, you know, the ideology in its purest form is almost, it's a rationalist ideology of some ways. It's an analysis of history and how things are supposed to be. And I think you mentioned Hannah Arendt.

When I think about this sort of historical path of communism and the kind of logics and dynamics of communism, I mean, in many ways, it has some echoes with Rand in that, you know, the ideology in its purest form is almost, it's a rationalist ideology of some ways. It's an analysis of history and how things are supposed to be. And I think you mentioned Hannah Arendt.

I think she has one of the most kind of penetrating analyses of communism, which she really puts in the category of like, it's a logical ideology, right? Logic leads inexorably to its conclusions, and then experience crops up and experience is different. And what does a sort of cult of rationality do when it hits experience? Well, it tries to bend experience to its will.

I think she has one of the most kind of penetrating analyses of communism, which she really puts in the category of like, it's a logical ideology, right? Logic leads inexorably to its conclusions, and then experience crops up and experience is different. And what does a sort of cult of rationality do when it hits experience? Well, it tries to bend experience to its will.

I think she has one of the most kind of penetrating analyses of communism, which she really puts in the category of like, it's a logical ideology, right? Logic leads inexorably to its conclusions, and then experience crops up and experience is different. And what does a sort of cult of rationality do when it hits experience? Well, it tries to bend experience to its will.

And that, I think, is really the story of communism writ large. So the question, though, is why does it catch fire? Why does it draw people into political allegiance? I think in the case of communism, it's this...

And that, I think, is really the story of communism writ large. So the question, though, is why does it catch fire? Why does it draw people into political allegiance? I think in the case of communism, it's this...

And that, I think, is really the story of communism writ large. So the question, though, is why does it catch fire? Why does it draw people into political allegiance? I think in the case of communism, it's this...

dream of a more ethical world you know dream of equality dream of the powerless rising up against the powerful i mean that's very um that's drawn in so many and then you had the whole addition of leninism which gave a kind of international cast to that and helped people think about what are the relations between poorer and richer countries and what can we expect out of them and what might happen gave a sort of framework for thinking about that in a time when those

dream of a more ethical world you know dream of equality dream of the powerless rising up against the powerful i mean that's very um that's drawn in so many and then you had the whole addition of leninism which gave a kind of international cast to that and helped people think about what are the relations between poorer and richer countries and what can we expect out of them and what might happen gave a sort of framework for thinking about that in a time when those

dream of a more ethical world you know dream of equality dream of the powerless rising up against the powerful i mean that's very um that's drawn in so many and then you had the whole addition of leninism which gave a kind of international cast to that and helped people think about what are the relations between poorer and richer countries and what can we expect out of them and what might happen gave a sort of framework for thinking about that in a time when those

The world was becoming more interconnected and those differences were becoming more obvious. You know, fascism to me is unleashing more something primal, something sort of dark and primal within people. And it's more a permission structure to indulge in that that is normally not there. Those impulses are normally channeled or held down.

The world was becoming more interconnected and those differences were becoming more obvious. You know, fascism to me is unleashing more something primal, something sort of dark and primal within people. And it's more a permission structure to indulge in that that is normally not there. Those impulses are normally channeled or held down.

The world was becoming more interconnected and those differences were becoming more obvious. You know, fascism to me is unleashing more something primal, something sort of dark and primal within people. And it's more a permission structure to indulge in that that is normally not there. Those impulses are normally channeled or held down.

And it seems that when the fascist regimes come into power, they give people permission to let those forces out.

And it seems that when the fascist regimes come into power, they give people permission to let those forces out.

And it seems that when the fascist regimes come into power, they give people permission to let those forces out.