The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast

Artemis II Is Inspiring – but NASA Is Holding Back Space Exploration

03 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8snaqpmo24 Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Agustina Vergara Cid and Mike...

Why Billionaires Don’t Owe California Anything

26 Mar 2026

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T3Zekd7xfE Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Robertas Bakula and Onkar Gha...

Trump Is Fighting for American Freedom Overseas While Killing It at Home

21 Mar 2026

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKAe7rMPwjE Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate di...

Rubio’s Mystical and Racist View of the West is Anti-Civilization

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUha6pLRumY Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Don Watkins and Sam Weaver di...

Anthropic vs. Trump: The Moral Responsibility of Tech Companies

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh7hO-q_gb4 Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Mike Mazza disc...

America Responds to Decades of Iranian Aggression

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZV5I8YRYvI Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer interviews Elan Jou...

Choosing Life: An Interview with ‘The Green Prince’ Mosab Hassan Yousef

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mzUUDz14Ac Podcast audio: In this special podcast episode, Yaron Brook and Elan Journo interview Mosab Has...

How the SCOTUS Tariff Decision Helps Slow the Advance of Authoritarianism

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmnux6MriXE Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer dis...

Ayn Rand, the Immigrant: 100 Years Since She Came to America

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDKszEjACFA Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer interviews Agustina...

Is Trump Distinctively Responsible for the Rise of Political Violence?

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89gUQLWQGG0 Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo d...

Fear of Progress: The Quest To End Autonomous Driving

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49b6O7nOtZI Podcast Audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Robertas Bakula and Mike Mazz...

Values Are Made, Not Found: Watch Gregory Salmieri’s Talk on “Conceiving Values”

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOtmQv3O7T8 Podcast audio: It is common to think of values as things we “discover” about ourselves — p...

Texas A&M’s Ban on Plato: Anti-”Woke” Censorship?

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g8n9_LOSwc Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Sam Weaver and Ben Bayer disc...

Does Success Require Sacrifice?

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twCDUSXZMWw Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Tristan de Liè...

Renee Good Killing and Tribalism in America

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyYlYiLE7Y Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Onkar Ghate and Agustina Verg...

Iranian Theocracy on the Brink? Why Protesters Deserve Our Moral Support

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDnD9GWdLaI Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate e...

Enlightenment on Trial: The Real Lessons of the American and French Revolutions

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTl2m5StrvQ Podcast audio: The crimes of the French Revolution have long been regarded as indicting Enlight...

The Constitution Ignored: Trump’s War on Venezuela

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28TpOvna_78 Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Onkar Ghate, Elan Journo and ...

Newton Versus Descartes on the Exactness of Mathematics

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shwbIXkaZPs Podcast audio: This talk comparing Newton and Descartes approach to mathematics by David Bakker...

Steven Pinker’s Weak Defense of Enlightenment Values vs. Religion

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClmXn3-j2t4 Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer dis...

Re-release: Christmas Is About Joy, Not Guilt

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hJO4ofx6VU Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, originally released on Decemb...

RFK Jr.’s Irrational Anti-Vaccine Policies: Interview with Dr. Amesh Adalja

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI3qhwVi1Eg Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Samantha Watkins interviews D...

How Drug Boats Could Be Used to Rationalize an Unjust War with Venezuela

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBSu1A2_BSg Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo dis...

Spinoza: A Hero of the Enlightenment

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Podcast audio: This talk by Alex Silverman was recorded live on July 2nd in Boston, MA as part of the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference and is...

ICE Raids vs. Rule of Law: Interviewing Institute for Justice’s Josh Windham

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KEOmlA-YRo Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Agustina Vergara Cid interview...

Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Heritage, and Conservatism’s Moral Decay

22 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Nikos Sotirakopoulos and ARI’s senior intellectuals make a deep dive into t...

Mamdani’s Victory: How Bad is it For America?

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uCwg6ADk4s Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Nikos Sotirakopoulos and Onka...

Trump’s Un-American, Unconstitutional Tariff Scheme

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgeCG_fGFrk Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Robertas Bakula...

Saving the Enlightenment

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4zPY_XnfS8 Podcast audio: The Enlightenment’s commitment to reason, individualism, and the power of know...

Mamdani’s Socialist War on Gifted Kids

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1sggf9exTQ Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Samantha Watkin...

The Origin of Life, Agency & Purpose: Terrence Deacon’s Theory

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnyS0vpTh_k Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer, Tristan de Liege, ...

Do Nobel Prize-Winning Economists Get Why Nations Fail?

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Podcast audio: This talk by Robertas Bakula was recorded live on July 2nd in Boston, MA as part of the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference and i...

How Friendship Can Be Selfish

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMJR3ja3s5s Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Tristan de Liège and Gregory...

Integrating Science and Free Will

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuyhO8xssYY Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Tristan de Liège, Mike Mazza...

Defending Embryo Screening from Irrational Opposition

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-L271Y9HPA Podcast audio: In this Ayn Rand Institute Podcast episode, Mike Mazza and Samantha Watkins anal...

Principles of a Proper Foreign Policy

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zg_ANzngT0 Podcast audio: The American attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities was met with intense public d...

The Injustice of the New Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi8sRxe21qo Podcast audio: In this Ayn Rand Institute Podcast episode, Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate discuss ...

Understanding “Woke” Ideology: Books by Yascha Mounk and Chris Rufo

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZCJXTdch2E Podcast audio: In this episode of ARI Bookshelf, Sam Weaver, Ben Bayer, Nikos Sotirakopoulos an...

It’s Up to You: Making Choices

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This talk by Steven Warden was recorded live on July 3rd in Boston, MA as part of the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference and is available on the Ayn R...

Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza?

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V6c-9O3UHk Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Tristan de Liège and Ben B...

Patrick Deneen and the Right’s War on Freedom

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Post-Liberal Right threatens to roll back American liberty.

What Is Western Civilization?

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Enlightenment, not Christianity, is the key to the West.

The Injustice of Recognizing a Palestinian State

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The recognition of a Palestinian state betrays good and rewards evil.

Trump vs. Kimmel: The Tribal Weaponization of the FCC against Free Speech

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Intimidating broadcasters with the “public interest” standard is a worse abridgement of free speech than censorship.

Trump’s Anti-Capitalist Control Over Businesses

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Business leaders need to stand up for themselves before it's too late.

Charlie Kirk’s Murder: Who Normalized Political Violence?

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Distinguishing speech from force is essential to eradicating violence in America.

The Road to Fascism (and Are We on It?)

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rising authoritarian currents in America make truth and reason more urgent than ever.

Why Trump’s Antitrust Has No “Monopoly” on Moral Corruption

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Forcing business to bow to non-objective laws violates America’s individualist ideals.

“Is Atlas Shrugging?” by Ayn Rand

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a newly uncovered recording, Ayn Rand explains why Atlas Shrugged is not a prophecy.

How NOT to Explain Mamdani’s Socialist Revival

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6vA9ensrzw Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakop...

Immigration Enforcement and the Betrayal of Due Process

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkOadbwUP5s Podcast audio: America is a country that prizes freedom and the rule of law. Yet every day, we ...

The Palestinians’ Most Deadly Weapon Against Israel: Altruism

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wig7ja6GLlU Podcast audio In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo, Nikos Sotirakopou...

Was Ayn Rand Anti-Family?

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwT-unSQu_8 Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Samantha Watkins and Ben Baye...

What Went Wrong With Capitalism — A Review of Ruchir Sharma’s Book

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky3VGO4AI-g Podcast audio: In this episode of The ARI Bookshelf, Tristan de Liège, Ben Bayer, Don Watkins,...

Abortion Bans vs. Women’s Lives

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm7PICSLkhc Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Agustina Vergar...

Trump vs. CBS: How Government Pressures Companies to Self-Censor

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33MpmtvMKs0 Podcast audio: In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Marek Michulka and Onkar Ghat...

Profit Without Apology: The Moral Case for Business

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDVOG6tX8b8 Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Don Watkins u...

Highlights from the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hGvQj376Uw Podcast audio: The 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference, held in Boston, Massachusetts, wrapped u...

Tal Tsfany Unveils ARI’s Ambitions for Mainstreaming Objectivism

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/9PCQRzAMohQ Podcast audio: As the Ayn Rand Institute marks its 40th anniversary, its mission to spread Objectivism through...

Ben Bayer on America’s Need to Declare Independence from Altruism

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e-3oeMO-0w&t=4s Podcast audio: Ayn Rand viewed the American founding’s enshrinement of individuals right...

How Immigration Restrictions Cripple American Businesses

06 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtW5q-7XaTw Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Agustina Vergar...

School Choice: Matt Bateman on Understanding Education Freedom

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5csuEpTn69o Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Samantha Watkins interviews D...

News Roundup

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDj_LhwM0Vw Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo d...

Preview of the Objectivist Conference 2025

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMepGP0ehPo Podcast Audio In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo interviews ARI int...

The L.A. Riots and Mass Deportation: Both Evil

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YchKm3DnUFo Podcast Audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer dis...

A Central Planner’s Trojan Horse: The Technological Republic

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A28R9JnfNro Podcast audio: In this episode of The ARI Bookshelf, Elan Journo, Mike Mazza, Nikos Sotirakopou...

Joe Rogan vs. Douglas Murray: Who’s Right About Trusting Experts?

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY3NY7gFYtw Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Tristan de Liè...

Reading Reform Beyond Phonics | Sam Weaver

01 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/iVJOTxv-tWk Podcast audio: American schools have long performed dismally at providing the education children need to read ...

The Making of the Atom Bomb | Evan Picoult

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/o615h8druDE Podcast audio: The creation of the atom bomb during WWII was an extraordinary achievement, dramatized in part ...

Trump’s Display of Arbitrary Immigration Power

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/VUYooprteeU Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Agustina Vergara Cid analyze...

Racism: What It Is and Why It Persists | Gregory Salmieri

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/RclwB5luKek Podcast audio: Ayn Rand denounced racism as “the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.” She...

Why Objectivity Demands a First-Handed Foreign Policy | Scott McDonald

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/2yQWRvrbVUI Podcast audio: Foreign policy is both a political activity and a field of applied ethics. However, the metaphy...

The ARI Bookshelf Explores Abundance

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/LVNSnbdEo0o Podcast audio: In this episode of The ARI Bookshelf, Onkar Ghate, Tristan de Liège, and Robertas Bakula discu...

How Capitalists Are Exploited

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/0R_RjyOJeI4 Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer, Robertas Bakula, and Tristan de L...

Aristotle and Darwin: Antagonists or Kindred Spirits? | James Lennox

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/7Wjrmh8CjAk Podcast audio: As a historian and philosopher of biology, much of Dr. James Lennox’s research has focused on...

How to Recognize “Package-Deals”

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/sNtIs4UmXns Podcast audio: The most pernicious ideas are often injected into the culture by the method of “package-deali...

The New Iran Deal: Trump Recycles Obama Amoralism

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/S53avG169mw Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo and Ben Bayer discuss the Trump ...

An Introduction to Psychology | Gena Gorlin

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/Ff78OyGNA40 Podcast audio: This sample class by Gena Gorlin is based on the full-length ARU course of the same name. The f...

21st-Century Revolutions in Medicine, Health Sciences, and Biotechnology | Amesh Adalja

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/oMFbMFvDJ50 Podcast audio: In this talk, Dr. Amesh Adalja details innovative new developments in science that will enhance...

Private Space Entrepreneurs vs. NASA: How Freedom Fuels Rockets

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/pWpAiAioZTE Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Robertas Bakula and Mike Mazza explore the t...

The Revolutionary, Secular Concept of Individual Rights | Ben Bayer

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/79fT9VIDkVs Podcast audio: As Ayn Rand wrote, “The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thi...

Philosophy of Math | Harry Binswanger

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/UaRhK2N8m6Y Podcast audio: A continuation of Dr. Harry Binswanger’s Saving Math from Plato (OCON 2023): how the Aris...

Does Targeting Columbia University Target Intellectual Freedom?

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/qctS25KQzrs Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Sam Weaver and Ben Bayer discuss the Trump a...

Why Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message Is So Wrong on Palestine | ARI Bookshelf

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/VaNHaT-xlOU Podcast audio: The new ARI Bookshelf podcast series gives you a window into ARI’s educational programs by sh...

Socratic Wisdom | Jason Rheins

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/RKtLU6ntECU Podcast audio: “Socratic Wisdom” — knowing our own ignorance — is the ability to differentiate what we...

Trump’s Authoritarian War on Trade

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/vFaDm6eo-mk Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer examine the Trump ...

Marx vs. the Individual | Nikos Sotirakopoulos

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/-c6W8JuZsVo Podcast audio: Oppression and authoritarianism have been constant themes in regimes that ruled in the name of ...

Objectivity in One-to-One Conversations | Jean Moroney

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/093vQKWPwvs Podcast audio: Objectivity is the key to avoiding misunderstandings and making one-to-one conversations produc...

Debunking the ‘Not Real Socialism’ Myth

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/a3bgumyKdAA Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos dismantle...

‘From Heaven Through the World to Hell’: Goethe’s Faust as Romantic Hero | Nicolas Krusek

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/8wKAKmydUlg Podcast audio: Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s dramatic poem Faust is a monumental work of Romantic literature that...

Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes | ARI Bookshelf

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/HtOmp-fh-Pk Podcast audio: This episode of ARI Bookshelf features Naomi Oreskes’s bookWhy Trust Science? Panelists incl...

Why Business Leaders Won’t Object to Trump’s Tariffs

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/S1DL9777gfk Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Onkar Ghate challenge the myth...

How to Value Friendship | Tristan de Liège

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/qBTy_9VVhuE Podcast audio: Often, people make the mistake of being too passive about friendship, treating it as something ...

America’s History of Immigration Restrictions | Agustina Vergara Cid

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/9lMQ3idE9bw Podcast audio: Immigration is one of the most contentious topics on today's political landscape. But that has ...

USAID Corruption: Deeper Than You Think

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/3XFiAQbxtgQ Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Agustina Vergara Cid examine t...

Egoism Without Permission – It Begins with Desire | Tara Smith

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/DI1xqqIcj7k Podcast audio: How can we live more egoistically? What makes us want to live more egoistically? Not everyone...

Freely Determined by Kennon M. Sheldon | ARI Bookshelf

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/ZhqJzc75qeI Podcast audio: A new ARI podcast series, ARI Bookshelf, gives you a window into ARI’s educational programs b...

Why the Ayn Rand Institute Comments on Current Events

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/QT4O5p3oSAA Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer discuss why ARI co...

The ARI Bookshelf Explores Three Books on the Influence of Christianity on Western Culture

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/YjhHIgZzO3k Podcast audio: In this episode of The ARI Bookshelf, Jason Rheins, Ben Bayer, Don Watkins, and Alex Silverman ...

Behind the Scenes: Ayn Rand’s West Point Lecture (1974–2024)

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/V8yIcXmoAnQ Podcast audio: Fifty years ago, Ayn Rand journeyed to West Point to speak to a new senior-level course offered...