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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol has begun a series of public hearings, which have included previously unreleased footage of the rioters and testimony from White House officials. Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo analyze the philosophic significance of the attack, the investigation into it, and the cultural reactions. Recorded … Continue reading The January 6 Hearings

In 1967 Ayn Rand was interviewed on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson three times, in the span of four months. Those interviews were beamed into millions of homes across America. The audience reaction was extraordinary. Going behind the scenes of those interviews, Elan Journo interviews Tom Bowden. Streamed June 6, 2022. https://youtu.be/OCqo_tQCJCg

Decades ago, conventional wisdom held that the U.S. was about to run out of domestic oil and gas -- and doomed to be dependent on foreign countries for its supply. But since then something astonishing happened. Domestic output of oil in the US has increased dramatically, while net petroleum imports have plunged to the lowest … Continue reading How Shale Revolutionized U.S. Energy: Interview with Nick Deiuliis

Elan Journo and Ben Bayer to analyze the concept of "nationalism" in the context of the Russia/Ukraine conflict, and draw lessons for understanding the rise of nationalism in the United States. Recorded March 16, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7E1PEvVFdE

Heated disputes, protracted conflicts, and outright schisms are common in intellectual movements—even in the positive, rational movements, such as Objectivism. In the just-published essay “Of Schisms, Public and Private,” Onkar Ghate and Harry Binswanger discuss why schisms occur within intellectual movements, and the principles that guide ARI in navigating them. Elan Journo interviews Drs. Ghate … Continue reading Navigating Schisms in the Objectivist Movement