https://www.youtube.com/live/oT_7XwkRkA4?si=SUWqSDR2tQ7XctXn An in-depth discussion of the Middle East.
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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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ivJl__LyWw Onkar Ghate, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss the Trump assassination attempt and the violent climate of tribalism in our culture. Recorded July 17, 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGoQ52C0PAg Elan Journo interviews Robert Mayhew, Tara Smith, and Greg Salmieri at the Objectivist summer conference in Anaheim, California, June 2024.
https://youtu.be/LaS-oLBiRbI?si=f7YIjNKkQrmGr4Rk Elan Journo talks with Prof Tara Smith about her new book Egoism Without Permission.
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