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The New Ideal Podcast features a curated selection of content from the pages of New Ideal, the journal of the Ayn Rand Institute. At New Ideal, we explore pressing cultural issues from the perspective of Rand’s philosophy: Objectivism, which upholds the ideals of reason, individualism and Capitalism.

Episode Date
The Outrageous Public Support for the Pro-Hamas Protests
Apr 25, 2024
Why Do Philosophers Keep Getting Ayn Rand Wrong?
Apr 22, 2024
Iran attacks Israel
Apr 15, 2024
The 2024 Elections
Apr 15, 2024
Analyzing Javier Milei’s Interview at AynRandCon
Apr 11, 2024
What’s Wrong with California’s Ethnic Studies Mandate?
Apr 08, 2024
The Shameful UN Resolution Demanding an Israeli Ceasefire
Apr 01, 2024
Defend Apple Against the DOJ
Mar 25, 2024
A Legal Crisis in Immigration
Mar 25, 2024
Biden’s Price Control ‘Strike Force’
Mar 18, 2024
Does Fear of God Ground Morality?
Mar 13, 2024
Zack Snyder on The Fountainhead
Mar 13, 2024
How Biden Subverts Israel’s War on Hamas
Mar 11, 2024
The Alabama IVF Ruling: The Dead End of Anti-Abortion Logic
Mar 04, 2024
Tucker Carlson’s Glorification of the Putin Regime
Feb 26, 2024
Why No One Wins from Today’s Tribal Political Battles
Feb 19, 2024
Revealing Attacks on Taylor Swift and Tech CEOs
Feb 12, 2024
Ayn Rand: A Philosophical Life
Feb 05, 2024
Three Myths about Ayn Rand
Jan 29, 2024
Interview with Coleman Hughes: The End of Race Politics
Jan 24, 2024
The Good Empowering Evil: Israel, the U.S., and the West
Jan 22, 2024
The Plagiarism Ethics Scandal Nobody Is Talking About
Jan 15, 2024
The Manosphere: Tonic or Poison for Men?
Jan 08, 2024
New Ideal: From, And To, Intellectual Mavericks
Jan 01, 2024
Should Universities Dump the Humanities?
Dec 25, 2023
The Real Scandal Underlying Campus Antisemitism
Dec 18, 2023
Effective Egoism: Making the Case for Selfishness
Dec 11, 2023
Should We Have Immigration in a Welfare State?
Dec 07, 2023
Milei’s Election in Argentina: Is There an Ayn Rand Connection?
Nov 27, 2023
What Antisemitism Is
Nov 26, 2023
Jordan Peterson’s Sophomoric Attack on Ayn Rand
Nov 20, 2023
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Abandons Atheism for Christianity
Nov 19, 2023
International Law vs. War
Nov 17, 2023
The Ongoing Debate Over Reading Education
Nov 13, 2023
The Morality of Self-Defense and Innocent Deaths in War
Nov 12, 2023
Why Iran Fuels the Mideast War
Nov 10, 2023
The Unstable Foundation of Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimism
Nov 06, 2023
Global Protests: Anti-war, or Pro-Hamas?
Nov 04, 2023
Did Israel Steal Palestinian Land?
Oct 30, 2023
The Absurdity of Calling the U.S.-Mexico Border Crisis an ‘Invasion’
Oct 29, 2023
How to Think about the Death of Innocents in War
Oct 23, 2023
Rand and Oppenheimer: The Atomic Bomb Movie that Wasn’t
Oct 21, 2023
The Suffering of Moral Saints
Oct 21, 2023
Civilization vs. Barbarism: Ongoing Analysis of the Hamas War on Israel
Oct 16, 2023
The Hamas War on Israel
Oct 09, 2023
Cristiano Ronaldo and Joe Biden Whitewash Saudi Arabia
Oct 09, 2023
Libertarianism: Big Tent or Big Mess?
Oct 02, 2023
Independence in an ‘Interdependent’ World
Sep 25, 2023
Q&A on Ayn Rand’s Ethics with Dan Schwartz and Ziemowit Gowin
Sep 18, 2023
Ayn Rand’s Distinctive View of Romantic Art
Sep 12, 2023
Ayn Rand’s Repudiation of Original Sin
Sep 11, 2023
The U.S.-Iran Prisoner Swap: Biden’s Policy of Delusion
Sep 03, 2023
The Moral Justification of the Atomic Bomb
Aug 28, 2023
Chinese Foreign Policy Toward Taiwan: With Scott McDonald
Aug 21, 2023
Ayn Rand on Watergate
Aug 14, 2023
The Knowledge Gap Highlights a Failing of America’s Schools
Aug 12, 2023
Will Europe’s Immigration Problems Happen in the U.S.?
Aug 05, 2023
In Defense of Life Extension
Jul 30, 2023
Religious Skeptics Should Question Their Moral Theology
Jul 29, 2023
Special Announcement: We’re Releasing a Huge Trove of Essays on Rand’s Fiction and Philosophy
Jul 29, 2023
Philip Kitcher’s Critique of Today’s Useless Philosophy
Jul 25, 2023
What is a Woman? and Gender War Tribalism
Jul 17, 2023
In Defense of Self-Esteem
Jul 10, 2023
The Dishonest Debate on Immigration and National Security
Jun 29, 2023
OCON 2023: The Pre-Game Show
Jun 23, 2023
The ‘Social Justice’ War on Science
Jun 19, 2023
The Perpetual War on Israel: 1948-2023
Jun 12, 2023
Ayn Rand’s Devastating Critique of ‘Liberals’
Jun 04, 2023
‘Intellectual Humility’ vs. Intellectual Ambitiousness
May 29, 2023
Conservatives for Stagnation
May 22, 2023
Threats to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
May 13, 2023
The Meaning of the Iraq War
May 08, 2023
Effective Altruism’s Faith-Based Sacrifice for the Future
May 05, 2023
Libertarian Apologists for Putin
May 01, 2023
Ayn Rand vs. ‘Liberals’
Apr 21, 2023
Robert Reich’s Unjust Crusade against Billionaire Producers
Apr 17, 2023
Exciting New Courses at the Ayn Rand University
Apr 07, 2023
Why Nationalism Is Hostile to America
Apr 05, 2023
‘Heckler’s Veto’ at Stanford Law School
Apr 03, 2023
Q&A on the Best Objections to Objectivism
Mar 27, 2023
The Debate Over the Right to Immigrate
Mar 20, 2023
The Anti-Individualism of Affirmative Action
Mar 13, 2023
Systemic Altruism
Mar 06, 2023
Finding Morality and Happiness Without God
Mar 04, 2023
One Year of War in Ukraine: The View from Europe
Feb 28, 2023
DeSantis’ Push to Ideologically Transform Florida Colleges
Feb 20, 2023
Natalie Wexler’s Critique of the ‘Knowledge Gap’ in Schools
Feb 13, 2023
Ayn Rand, the Valuer
Feb 06, 2023
The Old Morality of the New Religions
Feb 02, 2023
How to Deal with Arbitrary Claims: Lessons from the Pandemic
Jan 26, 2023
Hamline University’s Shameful Attack on Education
Jan 23, 2023
Q&A on God and Religion with Aaron Smith and Mike Mazza
Jan 16, 2023
From Russia with Evil: The Philosophy of Alexander Dugin
Jan 07, 2023
The Illustrated Fountainhead: Serializing a Classic Novel
Jan 04, 2023
Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail
Jan 02, 2023
Musk, Twitter, and Free Speech; Ransoming Brittney Griner
Dec 23, 2022
The Philosophical Bankruptcy of ‘Effective Altruism’
Dec 19, 2022
How the Qatar World Cup Abets Authoritarian ‘Sportswashing’
Dec 12, 2022
The Toxic Ideas Behind the Quest for ‘Zero Covid’
Dec 04, 2022
‘Practicing Gratitude’ Evaluated: A Chat with Gena Gorlin
Nov 28, 2022
Discussing Ayn Rand on World Philosophy Day 2022
Nov 18, 2022
Why John Mearsheimer Gets Ukraine Wrong
Nov 17, 2022
The Midterm Elections: A Philosophical Postmortem
Nov 14, 2022
What Does Xi Jinping’s China Want?
Nov 09, 2022
Inviting in the Vandals: The Just Stop Oil Protests
Nov 07, 2022
Dismantling the ‘Neoliberalism’ Straw Man
Oct 31, 2022
Q&A on Free Will vs. Determinism with Ben Bayer and Mike Mazza
Oct 24, 2022
What Students Need to Find Literature Fascinating
Oct 20, 2022
What Liberalism and Its Discontents Gets So Wrong
Oct 17, 2022
The Protests in Russia and Iran
Oct 08, 2022
Why MacAskill Is Wrong about What We Owe the Future
Oct 04, 2022
Political Battles Over Education
Sep 25, 2022
The Banality of Putin and Xi
Sep 23, 2022
The Attacks on ‘Hustle Culture’
Sep 19, 2022
How America’s 9/11 Response Destroyed Trust in Institutions
Sep 11, 2022
Modernized Stoicism Critiqued
Sep 03, 2022
National Conservatism vs. Americanism
Aug 25, 2022
The Sorry Legacy of Our Policy Toward Iran
Aug 20, 2022
Not Everyone Who Is Mistaken Is Evil — But Some Are
Aug 15, 2022
New ARU Course: Foundations of Physical Science
Aug 05, 2022
Objectivism Q&A with Ben Bayer and Dan Schwartz
Aug 01, 2022
Ayn Rand’s Radical View of the United Nations
Jul 27, 2022
Engaging Honestly with Critical Race Theory’s Irrationality
Jul 25, 2022
Whitewashing a ‘Pariah’ State: Biden’s Visit to Saudi Arabia
Jul 18, 2022
Panel on America’s Culture: Live from OCON 2022
Jul 11, 2022
The Death of Abortion Rights in America: A Postmortem
Jun 30, 2022
Roe Is Overturned: ARI’s Response
Jun 26, 2022
Ayn Rand on the Necessity of Moral Judgment
Jun 26, 2022
The Virulent Pull of Tribalism
Jun 20, 2022
The January 6 Hearings
Jun 15, 2022
Kathleen Stock’s Reasoned Critique of Gender Ideology
Jun 11, 2022
Alex Epstein’s Powerful Case for More Fossil Fuel Energy
Jun 05, 2022
Philosophers’ Unprofessional Treatment of Ayn Rand
May 31, 2022
The Possible Dream
May 19, 2022
Understanding the Principles of Montessori Education
May 19, 2022
Why ‘Realists’ Get Ukraine So Wrong
May 13, 2022
The Supreme Court Abortion Leak vs. the Rule of Law
May 08, 2022
Objectivism Q&A: Aaron Smith, Mike Mazza (April 2022)
May 02, 2022
Environmentalism vs. Human Life
Apr 25, 2022
How Shale Revolutionized U.S. Energy: With Nick Deiuliis
Apr 23, 2022
Environmentalism’s Dark History
Apr 23, 2022
Justice Holmes and the Empty Constitution
Apr 19, 2022
The Attempted Character Assassination of Alex Epstein
Apr 18, 2022
Ukraine and the Power of Moral Judgment
Apr 11, 2022
Understanding the Roots of the New Inflation: With Rob Tarr
Apr 03, 2022
What Was Ayn Rand’s View of ‘Conservatism’?
Mar 30, 2022
Why Perfection Is Possible
Mar 28, 2022
Nationalism and Russia’s War on Ukraine
Mar 17, 2022
Navigating Schisms in the Objectivist Movement
Mar 09, 2022
The Meaning of Russia’s War on Ukraine
Mar 02, 2022
Taking ‘Climate Anxiety’ to a Whole New Level
Feb 23, 2022
A Companion to Ayn Rand: Jason Rheins Interview
Feb 18, 2022
A Companion to Ayn Rand: Adam Mossoff Interview
Feb 18, 2022
A Companion to Ayn Rand: Harry Binswanger Interview
Feb 18, 2022
A Companion to Ayn Rand: Tara Smith Interview
Feb 18, 2022
A Companion to Ayn Rand: Gregory Salmieri Interview
Feb 18, 2022
Conservatives, Libertarians, Anarchists vs. Rand on Politics
Feb 18, 2022
Ayn Rand on Economics: How Capitalism Hinges on Philosophy
Feb 18, 2022
Ayn Rand on Free Speech and Church-State Separation
Feb 18, 2022
The Russia-Ukraine Crisis and U.S. Foreign Policy
Feb 16, 2022
Objectivism Q&A with Ben Bayer and Mike Mazza
Feb 14, 2022
The New Religion of ‘Woke’
Feb 10, 2022
Powerful Life Lessons from Ayn Rand
Feb 07, 2022
The Tyranny of Need and the Rational Alternative
Jan 31, 2022
Health Care Workers’ Battle with ‘Moral Distress’
Jan 24, 2022
Ayn Rand’s Unique Understanding of Racism
Jan 17, 2022
Philosophy, Science, Religion: Álvarez Interviews Mayhew
Jan 12, 2022
After Omicron, Should We Be Aiming at ‘Zero Covid’?
Jan 10, 2022
Impacting Minds, Advancing Objectivism
Jan 03, 2022
What ‘9 Life Lessons from Ayn Rand’ Gets Right (and Wrong)
Dec 27, 2021
Ayn Rand on the Welfare State’s Real Villains
Dec 27, 2021
Quillette’s Anti-Intellectual Treatment of Ayn Rand
Dec 20, 2021
Roe v. Wade on the Brink
Dec 13, 2021
Stoicism vs. Objectivism: Is Free Will Magic?
Dec 13, 2021
Talking with John McWhorter about the Racist ‘Woke’ Religion
Dec 08, 2021
Objectivism Q&A with Aaron Smith and Mike Mazza
Dec 06, 2021
Steven Pinker’s Half-Hearted Defense of Rationality
Nov 22, 2021
How Radicals Advocate for Reform
Nov 15, 2021
America’s Stakes in Taiwan Strait: With Scott McDonald
Nov 10, 2021
What Jonah Goldberg’s Rejection of Ayn Rand Reveals
Nov 08, 2021
Whistleblowers Blowing Smoke: Recent Attacks on Facebook
Nov 01, 2021
The New Republican Attacks on Economic Freedom
Oct 22, 2021
Objectivism Q&A with Ben Bayer and Tristan de Liège
Oct 18, 2021
The Ayn Rand University: ARI’s Expanded Educational Program
Oct 11, 2021
Peter Boghossian’s Resignation and the Collapse of Academia
Oct 04, 2021
The Vigilante Injustice of the Texas Abortion Law
Sep 24, 2021
The Value of Ayn Rand’s Anthem to Today’s Students
Sep 20, 2021
The Real Meaning of 9/11
Sep 15, 2021
20 Years Since 9/11: ARI’s Distinctive Philosophic Analysis
Sep 13, 2021
Objectivism Q&A: Live from OCON
Sep 07, 2021
Vaccines vs. the Delta Variant: Talking with Dr. Amesh Adalja
Aug 27, 2021
Why Are Objectivists So Negative?
Aug 23, 2021
The Fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban
Aug 17, 2021
Ayn Rand’s Repudiation of the UN
Aug 16, 2021
The Pure Hatred of the New Antitrust
Aug 06, 2021
Why So Much Hatred Toward the Heroism of Jeff Bezos?
Aug 02, 2021
Objectivism Q&A with Aaron Smith and Mike Mazza
Jul 26, 2021
Vaccine False Alternatives: Bribes vs. Mandates
Jul 19, 2021
The Unscientific, Un-American Ethics of Vaccine Distribution
Jul 16, 2021
Why Ayn Rand Rejected ‘Conservatism’
Jul 09, 2021
Understanding the Meaning of Independence Day
Jul 02, 2021
Why Jordan Peterson Is Wrong about Faith
Jun 28, 2021
Objectivism Q&A with Onkar Ghate and Aaron Smith
Jun 21, 2021
Ayn Rand on God, Reason and Atheism
Jun 14, 2021
Against the Un-American Call for ‘National Service’
Jun 07, 2021
What Are the Roots of War?
May 29, 2021
Amesh Adalja on the Pandemic in the U.S. and Around the World
May 24, 2021
Moral Dimensions of the Israel-Hamas War
May 19, 2021
Responding to the Push to Violate Vaccine Patents
May 14, 2021
Interview with Sandra Shaw, Organizer of Debate 1984
May 10, 2021
Capitalists Demolish Socialists in Debate on Systems’ Morality
May 10, 2021
Objectivism Q&A with Ben Bayer and Mike Mazza
May 07, 2021
What to Expect from an America Without God
Apr 30, 2021
When Will Business Start Standing Up for Itself?
Apr 26, 2021
‘Environmental Humanism’: Cure for ‘Environmental Alarmism’?
Apr 26, 2021
Why Sam Harris Is Wrong about Free Will
Apr 19, 2021
Is Amazon Standing Up for Itself?
Apr 09, 2021
Evaluating the Call to ‘Stop Stealing Doctors’ from Overseas
Apr 05, 2021
Challenging ‘Cancel Culture’
Mar 29, 2021
What Gave Ayn Rand the Moral Right to Collect Social Security?
Mar 22, 2021
Lifting the Lockdowns
Mar 22, 2021
Can Classics Survive the Charge of ‘Whiteness’?
Mar 12, 2021
David S. Wilson’s ‘Sequel’: Atlas Hugged or Atlas Mugged?
Mar 08, 2021
Environmentalism’s ‘Anti-Industrial Revolution’
Mar 01, 2021
Meet the Conservative Authoritarians
Feb 25, 2021
Dr. Amesh Adalja: Evaluating the Vaccine Rollout
Feb 20, 2021
Western Apathy Toward Iran’s Religious Dictatorship
Feb 17, 2021
How Can Humanity Make Moral Progress?
Feb 16, 2021
Ayn Rand’s We the Living and What It Means to Truly Live
Feb 09, 2021
Does Social Media Censor? A Discussion with Steve Simpson
Jan 29, 2021
Nadine Strossen on ‘Hate Speech’ Laws vs. Free Speech
Jan 29, 2021
Racism, ‘Color Blindness,’ and Tribalism
Jan 21, 2021
Talking with Glenn Loury about ‘Woke’ Culture and Racism Today
Jan 20, 2021
The Storming of the Capitol
Jan 18, 2021
Why Scientific Progress in Ethics Is Frozen
Jan 13, 2021
The Charlie Hebdo Assassinations: Six Years Later
Jan 11, 2021
Can People Change? A Conversation with Gena Gorlin
Jan 04, 2021
Critiquing Biden’s Agenda: Health Care
Dec 28, 2020
Critiquing Biden’s Agenda: Energy and the Environment
Dec 28, 2020
Critiquing Biden’s Agenda: Overview and the Economy
Dec 28, 2020
Ayn Rand’s Critique of the ‘Left’
Dec 21, 2020
Why Today’s Ethics Offers No Real Guidance
Dec 15, 2020
Changing People’s Minds about Ayn Rand’s Controversial Ideas
Dec 14, 2020
Flemming Rose on Islamist Threats to Free Speech
Dec 09, 2020
The Covid-19 Vaccines: An Interview with Dr. Amesh Adalja
Dec 07, 2020
What to Be Thankful for in a Time of Adversity
Nov 25, 2020
How Ethics Can Guide Our Lives, Not Just Resolve Dilemmas
Nov 23, 2020
What We Owe the Real Defenders of America
Nov 16, 2020
The Consent of the Governed
Nov 09, 2020
What Questions Would You Ask a Supreme Court Nominee?
Nov 02, 2020
Analyzing Paul Krugman’s New York Times Smear of Ayn Rand
Oct 26, 2020
The Threat of ‘National Conservatism’
Oct 26, 2020
The Pope’s Deeply Christian Attack on Individual Freedom
Oct 19, 2020
Talking With Hillel Neuer About China, WHO and UN Corruption
Oct 14, 2020
How Goes the Pandemic Battle? Interview with Dr. Amesh Adalja
Oct 12, 2020
How to Oppose the Push for Socialism
Oct 05, 2020
How Turkey Went from Secular to Islamic Authoritarianism
Sep 30, 2020
Meet the New Socialism, Same as the Old
Sep 30, 2020
Thinking about the U.S. Presidential Elections
Sep 28, 2020
Classics in Crisis: Why We Shouldn’t ‘Cancel’ Aristotle
Sep 21, 2020
9/11: Learning the Right Lessons
Sep 14, 2020
Change Your Life. Read Atlas Shrugged.
Sep 07, 2020
The Assault on Expertise
Aug 31, 2020
Lying, Voting and the Universe: Q&A with Bayer and Smith
Aug 24, 2020
Recent Antitrust Attacks on ‘Big Tech’
Aug 17, 2020
Supreme Court’s Half-Hearted Defense of Abortion Rights
Aug 10, 2020
Building and Toppling Public Statues
Aug 03, 2020
The Fuel on the Fire of ‘Cancel Culture’
Jul 27, 2020
The False Promise of Stoicism
Jul 25, 2020
Latest Pandemic Developments with Dr. Amesh Adalja
Jul 20, 2020
The Agenda Behind Shaming ARI for Taking Government Relief
Jul 13, 2020
The Tribal Mentality Behind Hit Pieces on Ayn Rand
Jul 06, 2020
Discussing the New Laws Needed to Combat a Pandemic
Jun 29, 2020
Philosophers Discuss: Is There a Right to Mass Protest?
Jun 22, 2020
A Pro-Freedom Approach to Infectious Disease
Jun 21, 2020
Analyzing the Concerns of Black Lives Matter Protesters
Jun 15, 2020
Who’s the Censor: Twitter or Trump?
Jun 10, 2020
What Drove the Lockdowns? A Conversation with Amesh Adalja
Jun 08, 2020
Condemning Lawless Violence — By the Police and the Rioters
Jun 03, 2020
Legal Challenges to the Pandemic Lockdowns
Jun 01, 2020
In a Time of Crisis, Is Self-Esteem a Luxury?
May 25, 2020
How to Think about Coronavirus Conspiracism
May 20, 2020
Should Government Just “Follow the Science”?
May 18, 2020
Should Government Confiscate the Coronavirus Vaccine?
May 13, 2020
Defending Against the Assault on Homeschooling
May 11, 2020
In the Covid-19 Pandemic, “Are We All in This Together?”
May 06, 2020
Diagnosing America’s Failure to Unify against the Pandemic
May 04, 2020
Philosophers Discuss: Should We Accept Suffering as Part of Life?
Apr 29, 2020
Is It Moral to Accept Government Money During Covid-19?
Apr 27, 2020
Discussing Marc Andreessen’s Rallying Cry to “Build”
Apr 22, 2020
Is Billionaire Philanthropy a Problem During Covid-19?
Apr 20, 2020
Moral Frameworks for Addressing the Pandemic
Apr 15, 2020
Seeing Through Misinformation About the Pandemic
Apr 13, 2020
Introducing New Ideal Live
Apr 04, 2020
Government’s Proper Role During COVID-19 Pandemic
Apr 01, 2020
Are “Stay at Home” Orders Constitutional?
Apr 01, 2020
Experts Assess Pandemic’s Damage to the Economy
Mar 25, 2020
Thinking Philosophically About the Pandemic
Mar 18, 2020