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.
Category: Podcasts
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
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.
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.
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