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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_yz-9X11ck
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss why and how DEI has become so dominant in American institutions, from universities to corporate businesses, despite its questionable nature.
Among the topics covered:
How DEI is sold as a form of justice for historically marginalized groups;
How “diversity” relies on a package deal;
How “inclusion” results in moral relativism;
How “equity” means equality of results irrespective of merit;
Why business leaders are unable to resist DEI despite its impracticality.
This episode was broadcast live on May 22, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXGhis0_6Jw
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer interviews Harry Binswanger, a philosopher and longtime friend of Ayn Rand’s, about his observations as a graduate student at Columbia during the 1968 protests and how those protests compare to those taking place now at Columbia and other campuses.
Among the topics covered:
How the 1968 protesters hoped to bring about a communist revolution;
Why the university tolerated the protesters and ceded to their demands;
Binswanger’s role in opposing the activists;
Ayn Rand’s analysis of the student protest phenomenon;
The long-term legacy of the student protests;
Why today’s protests are worse than the 1968 protests.
Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s 1968 radio commentary “The Student Rebellion at Columbia” and Ben Bayer and Onkar Ghate’s article “Ending Campus Protests Protects Free Speech.”
The podcast premiered on May 15, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. -
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer is interviewed by Ziemowit Gowin about his article on the phenomenon of academic plagiarism following the resignation of Harvard University president, Claudine Gay. They discuss why academia’s greater interest in combating issues such as sexism and racism over academic dishonesty is consistent with their deeper view of morality.
Among the topics covered:
Bayer's personal experience combating student plagiarism as a former professor;
How the morality of altruism creates an indifference to academic dishonesty;
How plagiarists cheat themselves of the value of knowing and living in reality;
How altruism prevents us from seeing how plagiarists harm those they deceive;
Why we need moral virtues, like honesty, for achieving personal values in life;
How academic plagiarism relates to the deeper topic of individual value creation.
Recommended in this podcast are Bayer’s “The Real Problem with Plagiarism,” “Why Scientific Progress in Ethics Is Frozen,” and “The Old Morality of the New Religions,” and the Ayn Rand Lexicon’s entry on “Honesty.”
The podcast was recorded on May 16, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. -
https://youtu.be/RGhQLpYXo6Y
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss the ongoing anti-Israel campus protests and analyze the demand that universities divest from Israel.
Among the topics covered:
How the divestment crusade is animated by hatred of Israel, not concern for the Palestinians;
The dishonest claim that Israel practices apartheid;
How the protesters whitewash Hamas' vicious treatment of homosexuals;
Why Christianity is the root of the celebration of Palestinian weakness and the hatred of Israeli prosperity;
The US government's outrageous financial support for corrupt organizations;
Why the violation of Palestinians’ rights by some fanatical Jews doesn’t amount to apartheid.
Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and her essays “For the New Intellectual” and “The Age of Envy,” Peter Schwartz’s “Hamas and the Tyranny of Need,” and Journo’s book What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
The podcast was recorded on May 8, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss Milton Friedman’s impact as a public intellectual and how his advocacy of the free market differed from Ayn Rand’s radical philosophical case for capitalism.
Among the topics covered:
Why Milton Friedman is an essentially positive influence on free market thought;
How Friedman’s moral conventionality reinforced the ideas he tried to oppose;
The importance of stating the ideal when advocating for gradual reform;
Why questions of morality are at the root of economic issues;
How Friedman’s amoralism and pragmatism blinded him to the statists’ motivation;
Ayn Rand’s critical evaluation of Friedman;
Why the abolitionist movement is a model for moving the world toward freedom.
Mentioned in this podcast is Onkar Ghate and Yaron Brook’s course “Cultural Movements: Creating Change” and Ayn Rand’s essay “Tax Credits for Education.”
The podcast was recorded on May 2, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O0HkJbbj4E
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer discuss the protests on university campuses against Israel’s war of self-defense and what they say about the state of our culture.
Among the topics covered:
Why the anti-Israeli campus protests are rightly labelled as being pro-Hamas;
How there is a double standard in the public’s response to mass protests in general;
How the anti-Israeli protests are motivated by altruism and hatred of Israel’s success;
Why the campus protests are a crisis of education rather than of free speech;
How the mass occupation of public spaces violate our rights.
Mentioned in this podcast is Ayn Rand’s 1968 radio talk “The Student “Rebellion” at Columbia University.”
The podcast was recorded on April 24, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. -
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Mike Mazza and Aaron Smith discuss Mazza’s recently published article about why academic philosophers tend to get Rand’s ideas wrong so frequently and the parochialism involved in many of their critiques.
Among the topics covered:
What Mazza aimed to explain in this article;
Why responding to academic critics is important;
What it means for philosophers to engage in parochialism;
How the methods of academic philosophers are poorly suited to understanding Rand;
The inductive structure of Rand’s arguments;
The multiple factors behind philosophers’ dismissal of Rand’s ideas;
Why the parochialism issue is particularly important to identify;
Why historians of philosophy tend not to make the mistake of parochialism;
How even Objectivists can be parochial and what they should do to avoid it.
Mentioned in this podcast are the New Ideal articles “Why Can’t Professional Philosophers Get Rand Right?” by Mazza and “Why Massimo Pigliucci Gets Ayn Rand Wrong” by Smith, plus the book A Companion to Ayn Rand edited by Allan Gotthelf and Gregory Salmieri (specifically Chapter 1, “An Introduction to the Study of Ayn Rand”). The podcast was recorded on April 18, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. -
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo offers initial commentary on Iran’s April 13 attack on Israel.
Among the topics covered:
How Iran’s attack on Israel is a consequence of its Islamic and imperial nature;
How America’s failure to recognise and confront Iran’s nature emboldens it;
Why America and Israel are morally justified in replacing Iran’s evil regime.
Mentioned in this podcast are Elan Journo’s book What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo’s edited collection of essays Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: from George W. Bush to Barrack Obama and Beyond, and Leonard Peikoff’s article “’End States Who Sponsor Terrorism’.”
The podcast was recorded on April 13, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. -
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo give a preview of ARI’s 2024 presidential election coverage and comment on some of the major political issues at stake in the election.
Among the topics covered:
How ARI uses Objectivism to analyze elections and the wider political culture;
What the Trump phenomenon says about the state of our political culture;
The unprincipled nature of the political responses to recent domestic and foreign crises;
Symptoms of growing political tribalism, such as people’s increasing willingness to protest;
How bipartisan attacks on tech companies reveal a deeper turn against producers.
Mentioned in this podcast is Onkar Ghate’s New Ideal article “One Small Step for Dictatorship."
The podcast was recorded on April 11, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. -
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo analyze Argentinian President Javier Milei’s interview at AynRandCon in Buenos Aires.
Among the topics covered:
How the event fell short of ARI’s goal of illuminating points of agreement and disagreement with Milei;
How to evaluate Milei as a President, considering his strange statements about abortion and mysticism;
The contradiction between Milei’s ostensible rejection of collectivism and his administration's position on a military draft;
How Milei’s motivation for anarchism is easier to excuse than that of other libertarians;
Milei’s troubling rhetoric targeting journalists and dismissal of criticism;
What is right and wrong about Milei’s defense of producers;
Ayn Rand’s possible influence on Milei’s thinking about the nihilistic motivation of socialism.
The podcast was recorded on April 8, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.
Note: The original version of this podcast (which still appears on some platforms) relayed statements of facts about some of Milei's personal beliefs and positions that were not born out by the facts. These have been cut from the YouTube version. We regret the error. Also, Milei's position on the draft is not necessarily the same as that discussed by his ministers. -
https://youtu.be/Xh0xF5hACkw
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Sam Weaver and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the recent California ethnic studies mandate. They evaluate the ideological nature of the curriculum and its assault on knowledge, the philosophical ideas that made it possible, and why it must be opposed intellectually.
Among the topics covered:
How ethnic studies emerged from an activist assault on the idea of objective truth;
Evidence that the proposed curriculum is non-objective;
How lessons on "narratives" encourage prejudice among students;
The egalitarian roots of the curriculum and its elevation of the primitive over science;
Why the government monopoly on education causes violations of intellectual freedom.
Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essays “Global Balkanization,” “The Age of Envy,” and “Fairness Doctrine for Education,” as well as the previous podcast episode “Political Battles Over Education.”
The podcast was recorded on April 4, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. -
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss the recent United Nations “ceasefire” resolution. They argue it is yet another example of the West’s moral reluctance to condemn evil regimes and to provide a principled defense of Israel’s right to self-defense.
Among the topics covered:
The fact that Hamas seeks to destroy Israel because it is a bastion of civilization;
Why the UN resolution is a pro-Hamas document;
How the UN’s policy of moral neutrality enables evil regimes;
Why the United States is morally complicit in whitewashing Hamas;
Trump and Biden’s unprincipled support for Israel;
Why defeating Hamas requires the ideological deprogramming of the Palestinian population.
Mentioned in this podcast are Journo’s book What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Agustina Vergara Cid’s essay “Ayn Rand’s Radical View of the United Nations,” and Bayer’s “We Ignore the Unconditional Right to Self-Defense at Our Peril.”
The podcast was recorded on March 26, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. -
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In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss the recent announcement of the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Apple and analyze the injustice of criminalizing a company for giving customers an experience they want.
Among the topics covered:
Why the DOJ’s antitrust case against Apple is significant to all American business;
How Apple is targeted because of its business success, not its failures;
How antitrust is destructive by design and how it stifled Microsoft;
Ayn Rand’s analysis of antitrust as the “rule of unreason”;
Why you should call your legislator if you support businesses like Apple.
Mentioned in this podcast are Onkar Ghate’s essay “Drop the Antitrust Case Against Microsoft” and the New Ideal Live episode “Recent Antitrust Attacks on "Big Tech,” Ayn Rand’s lecture “America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business” (also available in essay form in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal) and her essay “Antitrust: The Rule of Unreason,” which can be found in The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought.
The podcast was recorded on March 22, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. -
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss the state of the immigration debate between Democrats and Republicans. They show how both parties appeal to fear and collectivism in their opposition to immigration, and explain why a proper solution to the border crisis requires policies that favor free economic migration.
Among the topics covered:
How both Democrats and Republicans are hostile to immigration;
How the rights of American citizens are infringed by the immigration system;
How Americans, individually, welcome immigrants despite political fearmongering;
Biden's unserious focus on tougher security over free economic migration;
Why a concern with individual criminals entering the country is not an argument for restricting legal immigration;
The calculated dishonesty of Senator Katie Britt's response to Biden’s State of the Union Address;
Why Americans should work hard to protect their own thinking from tribalism.
The podcast was recorded on March 21, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. -
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos examine President Biden’s State of the Union address and what it reveals about the goals of today’s political leadership. They discuss the anti-mind premise driving both political tribes and how it leads to statist policies that destroy wealth and create economic hardship.
Among the topics covered:
Understanding the values of the current political leadership;
Biden’s antipathy to the mind’s role in economic value creation;
How contempt for the mind restricts and destroys the pharmaceutical industry;
“Shrinkflation” as a distraction from the damage caused by anti-profit state policies;
Statist policy effects on supply and demand as the cause of rising prices;
How to think about “junk” fees and what underlies attacks on them;
The true objective of Biden’s “Strike Force” as rule by fear and force;
The anti-producer and anti-consumer motivations of Biden’s “Strike Force”;
Why Republicans’ only response is to change the subject to the border crisis.
Mentioned in this podcast are the interview “Understanding the Roots of the New Inflation: With Rob Tarr,” Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer’s New Ideal Live episode “The Pure Hatred of the New Antitrust,” and Ayn Rand’s lecture “Egalitarianism and Inflation.”
The podcast was recorded on March 13, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. -
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In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer responds to a PragerU video which argues that moral wisdom requires a “fear of God.” Bayer argues that a fear of God undercuts moral wisdom and is driven by a fear of the intellectual independence that moral wisdom requires.
Among the topics covered:
The proposal that a fear of God provides the basis for an objective morality;
How the fear of God makes objective moral guidance impossible;
Why being motivated by fear undercuts our love of moral wisdom and virtue;
How faith is driven by a fear of the independence that moral wisdom requires.
Mentioned in this podcast is Onkar Ghate’s article “Finding Morality and Happiness Without God.”
The podcast was recorded on March 5, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here
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In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo comments on Zack Snyder’s recent conversation with Joe Rogan about his admiration for Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead and why his film adaptation was rejected by Netflix. Journo discusses why so many creators like Snyder find Rand’s novels so compelling yet she is still considered “taboo,” the philosophical motives behind the hostility towards Rand, and the immense value readers can get from her heroes.
Among the topics covered:
Snyder's account of how the entertainment industry sees Rand as taboo;
Why The Fountainhead resonates so much with active-minded audiences;
What Snyder gets wrong about The Fountainhead’s origin story;
Why intellectuals regard Rand as taboo;
How Rand's heroes challenge our culture's deepest philosophical assumptions;
The value readers can gain from Rand’s works.
Recommended in this podcast are the previous New Ideal Live episodes “The Dramatic Story Behind The Fountainhead Movie” and “What Jonah Goldberg’s Rejection of Ayn Rand Reveals,” and Journo’s articles “When Tribal Journalists Try to ‘Cancel’ Ayn Rand,” and “Ayn Rand’s Devastating Critique of ‘Liberals.’”
The podcast was recorded on March 8, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=SYvTdaE9zfIPodcast audio:In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Ziemowit Gowin discuss how the Biden administration’s altruistic foreign policy undermines Israel’s war of self-defense against Hamas.Among the topics covered:How America’s inconsistent support of Israel subverts its war of self-defense;How the morality of altruism leads people to unjustly blame Israel for the fallout of Hamas’ attack;Why the altruistic decision to airdrop aid into Gaza amounts to enabling the enemy;Why calls for an Israeli-Hamas ceasefire are delusional and immoral;Why attempts at a “two-state solution” are among the causes of the current conflict;Why the conflict will continue if Israel does not decisively defeat Hamas.Mentioned in this podcast are three books: Winning the Unwinnable War (edited by Journo), Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism (edited by Journo and Onkar Ghate), and What Justice Demands (written by Journo). For more of ARI’s resources on America’s middle eastern foreign policy, go to https://bit.ly/arimideastresources.The podcast was recorded on March 6, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTntTkvIr3g
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss the philosophical and legal implications of the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) should be considered children.
Among the topics covered:
The facts and reasoning behind the Alabama Supreme Court case;
How the court’s decision is a logical result of anti-abortion reasoning;
Why conception or human DNA is insufficient for individual rights;
Why it would be inconsistent to make a legal exception for embryos;
Whether this case is a violation of the separation of Church and State;
The negative consequences of this case on reproductive rights.
Mentioned in the episode are the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on abortion, Ben Bayer’s book Why the Right to Abortion is Sacrosanct, and Ben Bayer’s essay “Science Without Philosophy Can’t Resolve Abortion Debate.”
This episode was broadcast live on February 28, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. -
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Mike Mazza and Ziemowit Gowin discuss Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Vladimir Putin, and Carlson’s attempt to undercut America by whitewashing life in Russia.
Among the topics covered:
Mainstream media’s reaction to Carlson’s interview;
How interviewing dictators gives them an undeserved sense of moral legitimacy;
How the interview only repeated Putin’s stale propaganda;
Why it’s absurd to think that the only way to be informed about events in Russia and Ukraine is to interview a dictator;
That Carlson’s motive is to discredit America by whitewashing life in Russia;
Carlson’s shocking equivocation of governments that murder journalists and political opponents with free nations using deadly force in self-defence;
The conservative rejection of abstract principles;
The descent of the new generation of conservative influencers into religion and authoritarianism.
Mentioned in the episode are “One Small Step Toward Dictatorship” by Onkar Ghate and “Putin’s War Embodies National Conservatism’s Ideology” by Ben Bayer and Elan Journo.
This episode was broadcast live on February 22, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. - Mostrar mais
