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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Robertas Bakula discuss the recent antitrust case against Google and what it reveals about the nature of antitrust law.
Among the topics covered:
Why Ayn Rand regarded antitrust law as immoral and un-American;
What evidence the DOJ’s antitrust case against Google is based on;
How antitrust law is non-objective in theory and in practice;
Why the DOJ’s antitrust case against Google is non-objective and unjust;
How antitrust law criminalizes businesses for being successful as such;
How the DOJ’s antitrust case equivocates political and economic power;
Why we need to fight for the moral right of businesses to be successful.
Mentioned in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s articles “The Age of Envy,” “America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business,” and “Antitrust: The Rule of Unreason,” as well as our previous New Ideal podcast episode “Recent Antitrust Attacks on ‘Big Tech’.”
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Agustina Vergara Cid and Ben Bayer analyze the anti-American immigration platforms of both the Trump and Harris campaigns.
Among the topics covered:
The tribal and arbitrary nature of Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric;
Why Republicans rely on fear-mongering to push their anti-immigration agenda;
Harris’s shameful evasion of the immigration topic and the racism of her opponents;
How both Democrats and Republicans share a collectivistic view of immigrants;
The role of altruism in shaping the anti-American approach to immigration.
Mentioned in this podcast are Vergara Cid’s essay “Rethink the Term ‘Illegal Immigrant,’” Ayn Rand’s essay “‘Extremism,’ or the Art of Smearing” and her answer to “Should There Be Open Immigration?” Also referenced are the New Ideal Live episodes “The Problem With Pro-Immigration Arguments,” “A Legal Crisis in Immigration,” and “Who Is a Communist?”
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In this episode of New Ideal, Agustina Vergara Cid interviews Gregory Salmieri about his essay “Free Speech as a Right and a Way of Life.”
Among the topics covered:
What free speech is and why a defense of it is needed;
How to respond to acts of de-platforming and cancellation;
Why the right to free speech is absolute;
How public education violates free speech;
Non-governmental violations of free speech;
The difference between thought and action;
When protests and civil disobedience are justified;
How to promote a culture of free speech.
Mentioned in this podcast are Gregory Salmieri’s essay “Free Speech as a Right and a Way of Life” and Tara Smith’s book The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom.
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In this episode of New Ideal, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the question of whether Kamala Harris is a communist, and if not, what the real problem with her views is.
Among the topics covered:
The essence of the Marxist ideology;
Why Harris is not a communist;
How the “communist” label helps New Right tribalists hide their own anti-Americanism;
The importance of using concepts precisely;
How mislabeling someone as “communist” whitewashes real communism.
Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s article “The Left: Old and New” and Sotirakopoulos ’s lecture at AynRandCon Europe 2024 “Lessons From the Intellectual Success of Marxism.”
The podcast was recorded on September 9, 2024 and released on September 14. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here. -
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In this episode of New Ideal, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss how the failure of American post-9/11 policy led to the October 7 attacks.
Among the topics covered:
How the failed American response to 9/11 paved the way for October 7;
How religion and altruism undermined the response to Islamic totalitarianism;
How the West lies to itself about the nature of Hamas;
Why there are no voices articulating a positive strategy for the Middle East;
The need to rethink the philosophic principles guiding American foreign policy.
Recommended in this podcast are Ghate and Journo’s book Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: What Went Wrong After 9/11 and Journo’s Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism.
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The new Right’s absurd positions cannot be explained by their adherence to any coherent ideology, but only by their tribal view of the world.
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We must understand the philosophical foundations of the right to free speech to apply it to contemporary controversies.
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Harry Binswanger analyze Alexandra Popoff’s new biography, Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success, particularly its portrayal of Rand as a “Jewish thinker.” They address the false attempt to link Rand’s “ethnicity” to her philosophy.
Among the topics covered:
The determinism of labeling Rand as “influenced” by her ancestry vs. the central role of choice in her thought and life;
The irrelevant evidence offered for Rand’s “ethnic” identity;
Spurious evidence of Rand’s reaction to Soviet injustices in her political thinking;
Why Rand’s novels put plot first and were not merely a vehicle for ideas;
How The Fountainhead is Rand’s rejection of Nietzsche’s ideas;
How Popoff’s book fails to engage with Rand’s rejection of the tribalism central to the concept “ethnicity”;
Why Ayn Rand called herself a Jew in response to Antisemitism;
How Popoff’s book rehashes the same errors of older flawed biographies.
Mentioned in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essay “What Is Capitalism?” and her lecture “Global Balkanization.”
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Cartels thrive on the criminalization of immigration that allows them to prey on migrants at the border.
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the Democratic National Committee’s 2024 Platform.
Among the topics covered:
The ambiguity of “freedom” in the Democrats’ rhetoric;
How the platform packages legitimate freedom with the “freedom” to take from others;
How the platform packages equality of rights with metaphysical equality;
How the platform’s egalitarianism is racist and infantilizing;
How altruism and Marxist economics drive the platform’s call for the wealthy to pay their “fair share” in taxes;
What a principled opposition to the DNC platform would look like.
Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essay “Man’s Rights” and the July 25 New Ideal podcast episode “Why Socialists Fear the Republican Party Platform.”
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In this episode, Ben Bayer reads aloud his article, “Debunking the Supernaturalism That Haunts Secular Ethics.” In that essay, he examines secular thinkers' approach towards ethics. As he argues, scientists like Richard Dawkins accept ethical claims that are fundamentally based on religious thinking. To combat this approach to ethics, we need a naturalistic alternative: and one has been offered by Ayn Rand. Bayer’s article was originally published in New Ideal, the Ayn Rand Institute’s journal, on October 11, 2023.
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Agustina Vergara Cid criticize various pro-immigration arguments and discuss how they undermine a proper moral defense of immigration.
Among the topics covered:
How conventional pro-immigration arguments are based on altruism and collectivism;
How altruism leads to the infantilization of refugees and failure to advocate for economic migrants;
How diversity quotas perpetuate racism in the name of fighting it;
How the “economic case” for immigration reduces immigrants to servants;
The false assumption that the interests of Americans and immigrants are inherently at odds;
How anti-immigrant advocates have set the terms of the immigration debate;
How to think about the claim that pro-immigration advocates are seeking to dilute American values.
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer interviews Paul Taske, associate director of litigation at NetChoice, to discuss the Supreme Court’s recent NetChoice decision and what it means for the future of free speech in America.
Among the topics covered:
The Supreme Court’s decision to send the question about regulating social media platforms back to the federal district courts;
Why content moderation is not censorship;
How NetChoice responds to objections from the Court’s minority;
How the Florida and Texas laws violate the right not to speak;
Why NetChoice chose to make a facial challenge to the laws;
How NetChoice responds to the idea that social media platforms are common carriers;
How to think about the issue of whether the government has an interest in regulating social media platforms;
How to evaluate other disagreements between the majority and the minority.
Recommended in this podcast are Greg Salmieri’s article “Free Speech as a Right and a Way of Life” in Tara Smith’s The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom and the previous New Ideal podcast episode “Does Social Media Censor?: A Conversation with Steve Simpson.”
The podcast premiered on August 15, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Watch archived podcasts here. -
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Mike Mazza discuss why the trans movement is essentially religious and unscientific.
Among the topics covered:
The religious character of the trans movement;
Why many of its scientific claims are dishonest;
How religious conservatives reinforce the movement’s irrationality;
Why debates about gender have become so contentious;
How the movement relies on force and smears to advance its agenda;
Evidence that the movement is uninterested in trans people's well-being;
Why the science about gender dysphoria is far from settled.
Recommended in this podcast are the previous New Ideal Live episodes on “Kathleen Stock’s Reasoned Critique of Gender Ideology” and “‘What Is a Woman?’ and Gender War Tribalism.”
The podcast was released on August 8, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Watch archived podcasts here.
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Sam Weaver discuss how the introduction of both the Ten Commandments and DEI into the public school system represents an assault on intellectual freedom.
Among the topics covered:
How recent public-school mandates in Louisiana and Oklahoma use force to promote religion;
Why the mandates are an assault on the First Amendment and our founding ideals;
How the left pushes its ideas in public schools;
Why efforts on both sides should be understood as an assault on intellectual freedom;
Why the public education system necessarily leads to ideological disputes;
How tribalism drives religious mandates.
Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essay “The Establishing of an Establishment” in Philosophy: Who Needs It, Tara Smith’s book The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom, Harry Binswanger’s article “The Ten Commandments vs. America,” and the New Ideal Live episode on “What’s Wrong with California’s Ethnic Studies Mandate?”
The podcast was recorded on August 7, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Watch archived podcasts here.
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer examines a discussion between Richard Dawkins and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, explaining why so-called secular humanists have been unable to offer a rational moral alternative to religion.
Among the topics covered:
Ali's rationalizations for her religious conversion;
Why Western civilization is not purely Christian;
How religious belief relies on arbitrary claims;
Dawkins’ failure to offer a rational moral alternative to Christianity;
Why a rational morality requires an uncompromising commitment to truth.
Mentioned in this podcast are Bayer’s articles “The Old Morality of New Religions,” “Debunking the Supernaturalism That Haunts Secular Ethics,” and Onkar Ghate’s essay “Finding Morality and Happiness Without God.”
The podcast was recorded on July 31, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Watch archived podcasts here.
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss how the Republican National Convention’s platform has turned away from its traditional appeal to small government and turned instead towards adopting many of the big government policies that socialists envy.
Among the topics covered:
The RNC platform on energy policy, regulations, and Israel;
The RNC platform on entitlement programs, industrial policy, and tariffs;
The Republican Party’s unprincipled view of political and economic freedom;
JD Vance as a symbol of the Republican Party’s turn away from freedom;
How much the Republican Party has turned away from freedom in twelve years;
The new Republican Party’s turn to collectivism and central planning.
Mentioned in this podcast is the New Ideal article, “Meet the Conservative Authoritarians” by Elan Journo.
The podcast premiered on July 25, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Watch archived podcasts here. -
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss the Trump assassination attempt and the violent climate of tribalism in our culture.
Among the topics covered:
The evil of using physical force to settle political disagreements;
Why it’s important to comment on this event;
The increasing normalization of political violence in our culture;
Why it is important to discuss Trump’s failure to discourage political violence;
The philosophical root of today’s climate – tribalism;
How tribalism is fueled by the mixed economy and attacks on reason;
Manifestations of political tribalism in responses to the assassination attempt;
How tribal thinking differs from the rational pursuit of truth;
The role of emotions and conspiracies in tribal thinking;
How to be objective in one’s thinking about political events;
Why the cause of rising tribalism is philosophical, not political;
The advantages of one-on-one conversations compared to group conversations.
Mentioned in the discussion are Ayn Rand’s essay “The Missing Link,” and her Ford Hall Forum lectures “Global Balkanization” and “A Nation’s Unity.”
This episode was recorded on July 17, 2024. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Watch previous episodes here. - Visa fler