https://youtu.be/2sZU9hJLFWg?si=qh06IZDsQKaWQH8k Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo analyze the moral significance of Assad’s fall and the rise of jihadists in Syria. December 21, 2024.
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https://youtu.be/rPsgR0WCqxw?si=8SiIuvVu_HC71h9S Elan Journo talks with Ben Bayer about the debate on abortion and the Objectivist defense of abortion rights. October 30, 2024
https://youtu.be/MLF5deQWbrc?si=SfUaX5omdHRiDwF3 In this episode of New Ideal, Aaron Smith interviews Elan Journo about his critical evaluation of two popular but deeply flawed biographies of Ayn Rand: Jennifer Burns’ Goddess of the Market and Anne C. Heller’s Ayn Rand and the World She Made. October 23, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/live/oT_7XwkRkA4?si=SUWqSDR2tQ7XctXn An in-depth discussion of the Middle East.
https://youtu.be/Lsm2sRbywwg?si=xDo9RdHdl3pymhgN Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate explore Western misconceptions around October 7 and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Published Oct. 7, 2024.
When it was published in 2009, Anne C. Heller’s Ayn Rand and the World She Made was lavishly praised in umpteen reviews and singled out as a New York Times Notable Book. What came to my mind after reading it, however, was the spirit of a notorious tabloid in The Fountainhead. Owned by Gail Wynand, The Banner is characterized as “the most … Continue reading P.S. “Ayn Rand and the World She Made” Is an Exploitative, Tabloid Biography
Who was Ayn Rand? In 2009, as if to confirm the unmet demand for a Rand biography, two books about her life were published: Jennifer Burns’s Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right and Anne C. Heller’s Ayn Rand and the World She Made. Marketed as objective, non-partisan accounts, both garnered extraordinary acclaim. Burns’s book was … Continue reading “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right” Is Worse than Incompetent
https://youtu.be/sdNoDhkU_eA?si=6YOkvpFROPxNs3-p Elan Journo and Harry Binswanger analyze the assertion of a new biography -- Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success -- that Rand's work was crucially shaped by her Jewish "ethnicity." September 6, 2024.
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