Category: Podcasts

https://youtu.be/gFXDYaKnCVw?si=LCfshYibFya5PmJL Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, has instructed the paper’s opinion pages to defend “two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” prompting the editor’s exit and a major backlash. Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo analyze the meaning of this shift, amid the controversy over the ties of Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk … Continue reading Will Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post defend “free markets”?

https://youtu.be/a-SwX91pj2Q?si=1AXRsqnbN8_ZhMAk Elan Journo and Ben Bayer analyze the philosophic significance of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal and Trump's proposed redevelopment of Gaza. Recorded Feb. 12, 2025.

https://youtu.be/fEOGBX9R05w?si=X2xmi0nnVAphvlXg Elan Journo and Ben Bayer talk about the ethics of pardoning those involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack. Recorded Jan. 22, 2025.

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.

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