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https://youtu.be/a3bgumyKdAA Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos dismantle the claim that “real socialism” has never been attempted. Among the topics covered: Why many young Americans support socialism; How Soviet leaders were driven by Marxist ideology; Why Joseph Stalin epitomized Marxist principles; Why dictatorship is the logical outcome of socialist central planning; How the definition of socialism has been watered down to evade its historical crimes; The persistent rationalizations used to defend socialism. Recommended in this podcast are The Ayn Rand Lexicon's entry on socialism, Bayer's essay “The Dishonesty of ‘Real Socialism Has Never Been Tried,'” and Sotirakopoulos' upcoming ARU course “Marx and Communism.” The podcast was recorded on April 1, 2025 and posted on April 2, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.

https://youtu.be/y-WB-fhVJls Podcast audio: In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Tristan de Liège discuss why the traditional conception of forgiveness is evil and indicate how to think of it from an Objectivist perspective. Among the topics covered: How forgiveness is conventionally understood; Why the idea of “forgive and forget” enables injustice; Why forgiving a murderous dictator like Putin would be horrific; Why a rational view of forgiveness must be rooted in justice; The story of Mosab Hassan Yousef as an example of earning forgiveness; How healing from injustice comes from maintaining a positive value context, not forgiveness; Whether there is need for a separate concept of forgiveness. Recommended in this podcast are the Ayn Rand Lexicon entries on “Mercy,” “Justice,” and “Moral Judgment.” The podcast was recorded on February 14, 2025 and posted on February 19, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.

https://youtu.be/8NdmIOYTB4s Podcast audio: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer is interviewed by Ziemowit Gowin about his article on the phenomenon of academic plagiarism following the resignation of Harvard University president, Claudine Gay. They discuss why academia's greater interest in combating issues such as sexism and racism over academic dishonesty is consistent with their deeper view of morality. Among the topics covered: Bayer's personal experience combating student plagiarism as a former professor; How the morality of altruism creates an indifference to academic dishonesty; How plagiarists cheat themselves of the value of knowing and living in reality; How altruism prevents us from seeing how plagiarists harm those they deceive; Why we need moral virtues, like honesty, for achieving personal values in life; How academic plagiarism relates to the deeper topic of individual value creation. Recommended in this podcast are Bayer's “The Real Problem with Plagiarism,” “Why Scientific Progress in Ethics Is Frozen,” and “The Old Morality of the New Religions,” and the Ayn Rand Lexicon's entry on “Honesty.” The podcast was recorded on May 16, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Daniel Schwartz discuss the problem of plagiarism in our culture. They argue that although academic institutions assume that cheating is wrong, many academics have no intellectual argument as to why plagiarism is morally wrong or why it is necessary to uphold standards of honesty. Among the topics covered: Background on the universities' sacrifice of academic integrity to DEI; How plagiarism is a widespread problem in the culture; How some academics view plagiarism as neither significant nor necessarily wrong; The intellectuals' failure to explain why plagiarism is morally wrong; The fact that today's ethics offers no guidance for questions about the self; Why the value of one's own education is compromised by cheating; How Ayn Rand's view of honesty can illuminate what's wrong with plagiarism. Recommended in this podcast are the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on honesty, Tara Smith's Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist, Bayer's “Why Today's Ethics Offers No Real Guidance,” and the previous New Ideal episode “The Real Scandal Underlying Campus Antisemitism.” The podcast was recorded on January 10, 2024. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. https://youtu.be/lLOXyQpebRM Image credit: TSViPhoto/Shutterstock.com.

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss Saudi Arabia's lavish spending on sports celebrities, the recent American diplomatic overtures to Saudi Arabia, and the connection between the two. Among the topics covered: Recent sports and diplomatic deals with Saudi Arabia; Sports celebrities accepting lavish salaries from the Saudi government; An ominous proposal to strengthen U.S.-Saudi relations; The authoritarianism nature of the Saudi regime; The moral sanction Saudi Arabia seeks by investing in sports; The lack of a coherent U.S. foreign policy toward Saudi Arabia; What the Saudis want through these sports and diplomatic deals; Whether accepting lucrative salaries from the Saudi regime is self-interested; The “realist” foreign policy case for closer ties with Saudi Arabia; Whether bringing in sports celebrities supports positive social change for Saudi Arabia; Judging the moral status and direction of a country or a leader objectively. Mentioned in this podcast are Elan's Journo's articles “Whitewashing a ‘Pariah' State: Biden's Visit to Saudi Arabia,” "Biden's Visit to Saudi Arabia Is an Affront to American Values,” “Why Trump Should Disrupt the Scandalous US-Saudi Relationship," Journo's book What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the New Ideal Live podcast “How the Qatar World Cup Abets Authoritarian ‘Sportswashing'' with Agustina Vergara-Cid and Nikos Sotirakopoulos. Also suggested is the entry on self-interest in the Ayn Rand Lexicon. The podcast was recorded on October 4, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJS2kulBcK8 Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Ricardo Pinto discuss Ayn Rand's devastating critique of the idea of original sin. They explore how the notion has been understood historically, the philosophical and political uses to which it has been put, and the arguments Rand gives for regarding it as a destructive affront to morality and self-esteem. Among the topics covered: What original sin is and how it compares to other views; Why Ayn Rand saw the doctrine as an offense to the very concept of morality; Original sin's “explanation” of why the individual is guilty of another's actions; Original sin as incompatible with free will; The conservative justification of capitalism on original sin; Original sin as a premise of the “secular” left; How original sin rests on an antipathy to the body; The assault on intellectual pride; The mutual reinforcement between altruism and original sin; The deepest psychological motives behind original sin. Recommended in this podcast are the Ayn Rand Lexicon's entry on original sin, Rand's “Conservatism: An Obituary” and “Moral Inflation,” and Ben Bayer's “The Old Morality of the New Religions.” The podcast was recorded on. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. https://youtu.be/-k4Nly6o8sw Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer, Mike Mazza and Aaron Smith discuss What's the Use of Philosophy?, a recent book by leading philosopher Philip Kitcher, in which Kitcher calls out academic philosophy for its useless work and corrupt methods. Among the topics covered: Why it is significant that an established professor of philosophy has written a damning critique of his own profession; Kitcher's radical claim that philosophy has become disconnected from life, practical guidance, and useful methods, and his willingness to question whether the profession has any legitimate value; How Kitcher goes wrong by recommending a methodological turn towards pragmatism; Why the philosophy of science is noticeably working from better premises than other areas of academic philosophy; Why fundamental philosophic questions are crucially practical and must not be thrown out in favor of less ambitious, piecemeal investigation; Why, contrary to Kitcher's pragmatist view, Objectivism says that the most abstract philosophic questions have the widest practical consequences. Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are Ayn Rand's “The Chickens' Homecoming,” “Philosophy: Who Needs It,” “For the New Intellectual,” the entry on Linguistic Analysis in the Ayn Rand Lexicon, and Onkar Ghate's “Let's Revive Philosophy”. This episode was recorded on July 19, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHLl-uYr7w Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer is joined by professor and clinical psychologist Gena Gorlin to discuss the widespread notion that “intellectual humility” is the rational antidote to dogmatism. Among the topics covered: How academic and popular defenders of reason have mixed up a legitimate concern for careful thinking methods with the illegitimate idea that nothing is certain; Why humility entails servility, despite failed attempts to reconcile it with the love of truth; Why intellectual ambitiousness demands working hard to attain knowledge; The difference between earned certainty, probability, and the false certainty claimed by religious mystics; How intellectual humility discourages people from being intellectually and professionally ambitious in their own lives; Why it is important to know when you are not certain, and how to deal with real uncertainty. Mentioned in this podcast and relevant to the discussion are “‘Intellectual Humility' Is a Cop-out” by Gena Gorlin, “The Old Morality of the New Religions” by Ben Bayer, and entries in the Ayn Rand Lexicon on humility and pride. This episode was recorded on May 24, 2023. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g5bHpMuu-s Podcast audio:

Callers and Interview with  Harry Binswanger (/ˈbɪnzwæŋər/; born 1944) is an American philosopher. He is an Objectivist and a board member of the Ayn Rand Institute. He was an associate of Ayn Rand, working with her on The Ayn Rand Lexicon and helping her edit the second edition of Rand's Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. He is the author of How We Know: Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer, Dan Schwartz and Agustina Vergara Cid address questions on Objectivism submitted by the podcast's audience about the meaning of the term “objectivity,” the difference between evasion and selective focus, and the strongest objections to Objectivism. Among the topics covered: If objectivity designates a certain relationship between consciousness and existence, how can reality itself be objective?The two meanings of “objectivity”: one epistemological, one metaphysical;Whether Objectivism's use of the term “objective” to refer to a relationship between mind and reality is idiosyncratic;Can you reach a false conclusion while being objective?Is it evasion to narrow your focus to the good or positive things within a certain context?When and how it's appropriate to focus on the benefits rather than the downsides of a particular situation;Focus as paying attention to something versus the specifically Objectivist meaning of focus as a state of “purposeful alertness;”How to prioritize one's attention in light of Objectivism's view that one should be motivated primarily by values rather than fear.What are the strongest objections to Objectivism?The difference between plausible objections and those that are common or valid;The objection that Ayn Rand's argument for her ethics justifies maintaining physical survival, but does not justify fulfilling and enjoying one's life;What this objection misses about the distinctive nature of life as a human being, such as the importance of mental well-being;Whether survival and flourishing are separate goals in cases like choosing to live a longer but less enjoyable life by adopting a healthier diet;The objection raised by many scientifically minded people that Objectivism is wrong to think human beings have free will;The failure of free-will skeptics to take seriously the introspective evidence for free will or to fully recognize the implications of determinism;The objection that claims Rand is a materialist. Mentioned in this podcast are Leonard Peikoff's book Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on “Objectivity,” Bayer's blog post “The History of Objectivity in Light of Rand's Epistemology and Ethics,” Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged, Lecture 2 of Peikoff's course Understanding Objectivism, and Harry Binswanger's course Free Will. The podcast was recorded on July 27, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. https://youtu.be/kihr3tvoq8Q Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer, Mike Mazza and Agustina Vergara Cid address questions about Objectivism submitted by the podcast's audience. Among the topics covered: How did Rand handle the problem of long- versus short-term happiness in her own life? Did she enjoy leisure activities?The recreational activities that gave Rand joy;Why Rand lived up to her ideal of using philosophy to pursue happiness as the purpose of life;The value of relaxation versus escapism in leisure activities;How work as a central purpose integrates with other values;Is objectivity possible?The possibility of objectivity understood as the use of a logical method;Why denying objectivity amounts to denying free will;Why one can be objective and still reach a wrong conclusion;The importance of using methods that guard against error;In what form does a potential exist, and how does it relate to an actuality?Why every potentiality is a type of actuality;How understanding this distinction can help us solve real-life issues, like the abortion debate;What does the “folly of altruism” achieve?Understanding Ayn Rand's use of “don't bother to examine a folly — ask yourself only what it accomplishes”;How altruism is used to rationalize forms of evil;Understanding Ayn Rand's fictional characters in context;Whether Howard Roark is an example of total objectivity. Mentioned in the discussion are the Ayn Rand Lexicon entries on “Happiness” and “Objectivity,” the books 100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand and Facets of Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff's book Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, and Rand's own Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. This episode was recorded on February 9, 2022. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch previous episodes here. If you'd like to ask a question to be answered on a future episode, please send an email to newideal@aynrand.org with “Podcast question” in the subject header. https://youtu.be/mk9XvcOHSUQ Podcast audio:

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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer, Tristan De Liège and Sam Weaver answer questions about Objectivism submitted by the podcast's audience.  Among the topics covered: Is atheism a necessary part of the philosophy of Objectivism?Why atheism is not a positive belief system;Objectivism's commitment to reason as an absolute vs. theism;The arbitrariness of the belief in God;Why theism contradicts major principles of Objectivism in every branch of philosophy.How can we guard against “parroting” others when we rely on expertise?The difference between blind faith and rational reliance on testimony;How expert testimony yields at least probable belief sufficient for action;Dishonest motivations for rejecting expert testimony.Why does Objectivism emphasize the spiritual aspect of sex, as opposed to its biological function?Why rational moral values are based on biological facts;The role of selectivity in the spiritual value of work and sex;The role of pleasure in human values;What a “spiritual value” means in Objectivism. Mentioned in the discussion are the Ayn Rand Lexicon entries on “God,” “Religion” and “Sex”; Leonard Peikoff's book Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand and his course “Introduction to Logic,” and Greg Salmieri's course “Objective Thinking.” This podcast was recorded on October 13, 2021. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. If you'd like to ask a question to be answered on a future episode, please send an email with “Podcast question” in the subject header to newideal@aynrand.org. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwDjJ3V6VJU Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss Texas's recent anti-abortion legislation, SB8. Among the topics covered: Key facts about the new Texas law;How the law will likely impact women;The actual consequences of the law to date;Legal challenges to the law;How the law encourages “vigilante justice”;How this law sets a dangerous precedent for evading judicial review;How the law undermines the rule of objective law;Why rights do not begin with the heartbeat (or at conception) according to Ayn Rand;The assault on abortion rights in many other American states;Ayn Rand on the importance of abortion rights and the evil of those oppose them;Why we shouldn't cede to anti-abortionists the title of “pro-life”;Why the Texas law doesn't respect human life or highlight the importance of sex education;Why abortion should be permitted until birth. Mentioned in the discussion are the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry “Abortion,” Ayn Rand's talk “Of Living Death,” and Ben Bayer's articles “Abortion Allows Women to Protect What's Sacred about Life,” “Ayn Rand's Radical Case for Abortion Rights,” and “Science without Philosophy Can't Resolve Abortion Debate.” This podcast was recorded on September 22, 2021. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KZ38XDgbzo Podcast audio:

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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss Ayn Rand's distinctive, philosophical perspective on the United Nations. Among the topics covered: Ayn Rand's commentary on the UN as an example of her engagement with the important issues of her time;Ayn Rand's philosophical evaluation of the UN vs. other conventional views;The “grotesque pretense” of an organization with Soviet Russia as a charter member;The consequences of the UN's moral equivalence between free countries and dictatorships;How the UN Human Rights Council provides moral cover for evil regimes such as Venezuela and Cuba;The contradiction of having dictatorships monitor violations of rights;Whether essentially free countries benefit from membership in the UN;Whether the UN can be reformed;The difference between “humans rights” and “individual rights.” Mentioned in the discussion are Ayn Rand's essay “The Anatomy of Compromise” from her book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Elan Journo's essay “The UN's Unscrupulous Attacks on Israel,” Agustina Vergara Cid's essay “How the UN Whitewashes China's Crushing of Free Speech” and the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on “foreign policy.” This podcast was recorded on August 10, 2021. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and special guest Robert Mayhew discuss Ayn Rand's views on God and religion. Among the topics covered: What Ayn Rand meant when she said that religion “is a primitive form of philosophy”;What differentiates philosophy from religion;How the rise of philosophy influenced and antagonized religion;Why Objectivism is intransigently atheistic but not militant;Why Rand thought of religion as an unworthy adversary to her philosophy;Whether people believe in God because of arguments, or use arguments simply to rationalize a prior belief in God;Why the concept of God and of the supernatural are an attack on reason and reality;Whether liberty-oriented people (including the Founding Fathers) are fundamentally religious, and communists and socialists fundamentally atheistic;The movie Life of Brian and its message regarding religious belief. Mentioned in the discussion are Ayn Rand's essay “Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World” and the entries “Atheism,” “God,” “Faith,” “Reason” and “Religion” in the Ayn Rand Lexicon. This podcast was recorded on June 9, 2021. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Onkar Ghate discuss Sam Harris’s argument against the existence of free will. Among the topics covered: Harris’s Humean argument equating causality with causation by prior events;Why free will doesn’t mean self-creation out of nothing;Harris’s argument for why we have no introspective experience of free will;How Harris’s thought experiment involves superficial attention to our experience of freedom;Why Harris can’t explain why his argument isn’t self-refuting;Rand’s view of why man is a being of self-made soul;Whether individuals with certain psychiatric conditions have volition;The issue of soft determinism (compatibilism). Mentioned in the discussion are the “free will” entry in the Ayn Rand Lexicon, Onkar Ghate’s talk “Seize the Reins of Your Mind” and Ben Bayer’s article “Why Champions of Science and Reason Need Free Will.” This podcast was recorded on April 15, 2021. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Keith Lockitch discuss the underlying philosophical issues that permeate today’s debate over energy and the environment. Among the topics covered: Why it’s a mistake to use the current crisis in Texas to boost policy agendas, especially “green” energy policies;Ayn Rand’s view of the environmentalist movement as an outgrowth of the New Left;Why environmentalist ideology is not focused primarily on human welfare;Environmentalism’s history of unscientific, apocalyptic predictions and its resemblance to religion;Why coercive environmentalist policies are no solution to real environmental problems;Why it’s a mistake to take technology for granted when environmentalist policies would take it away;The prescience of Ayn Rand’s analysis of the environmentalist movement and its ideas. Mentioned in the discussion are Ayn Rand’s essay “The Anti-Industrial Revolution” in her book Return of the Primitive; the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on the “New Left”; and Keith Lockitch’s essays “The Green New Deal: A War Against Energy” and “Climate Vulnerability and the Indispensable Value of Industrial Capitalism” This podcast was recorded on February 24, 2021. Listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer sits down with Steve Simpson, senior attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, to discuss whether “deplatforming” by tech companies constitutes censorship. Topics covered include: What free speech is, and what constitutes a violation of this right, especially in the context of social media;Why the solution to “censorship by proxy” is not more government pressure on private companies;Whether companies today are making decisions in reaction to government pressure;Why private companies’ right to free speech includes the right to make irrational decisions about what content to sponsor or remove;Why social media companies cannot and should not be content neutral;Why Section 230’s distinction between publisher and platform liability is valid and useful;The real motive behind the pushes to repeal Section 230;The legal basis for the “deplatforming” of social media companies by vendor IT companies;What to make of the fact that tech companies have been subsidized by the government;Why the right to free speech fundamentally protects the creation of rational values, which the social media companies have done. Mentioned in the discussion were the Wall Street Journal’s article “Save the Constitution From Big Tech,” the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on censorship, Ayn Rand’s article “Have Gun, Will Nudge,” Steve Simpson’s book Defending Free Speech and his article “Unjust Attacks on Facebook,” as well as Ben Bayer’s “Ominous Threats to the Marketplace of Ideas” and “Facebook: Censor or Victim?” This podcast was recorded on January 26, 2021. Watch or listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss what it means to honor a nation’s soldiers and veterans. They argue that the decision to go to war is a serious moral issue and has to take seriously the lives of its soldiers in battle. Among other topics, they cover: How the purpose of a proper government (the protection of its citizens’ individual rights) sets the bounds for the proper use of the military;Ayn Rand’s perspective on what justifies war, and how it differs from libertarian and conservative views;Why regarding military service as a sacrifice for the “common good” is a mistake and an insult to soldiers and veterans;What Rand thought of American wars of her time, especially Vietnam, and how America’s foreign policy from World War I on has too often betrayed American soldiers;Why Ayn Rand opposed the draft on moral grounds. Mentioned in the discussion are Ayn Rand’s essays “The Roots of War,” “Lessons from Vietnam” (available in the book The Voice of Reason), “The Wreckage of the Consensus,” the Ayn Rand Lexicon’s entry on “war,” Rand’s books Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal and The Virtue of Selfishness, Elan Journo’s books Winning the Unwinnable War and What Justice Demands, and Journo and Ghate’s book Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism. This podcast was recorded on November 11, 2020. Watch or listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Keith Lockitch discuss what’s wrong with the push from the “national conservatism” movement to restore what it takes to be traditional American values. Among the topics covered: What conservatism is, and what Ayn Rand thought about it;What the “national conservatism” movement stands for today;The movement’s major concerns, especially regarding free trade and immigration;How their elevation of the value of ethnic heritage negates individualism and freedom;The anti-reason, anti-Enlightenment mentality of intellectuals in this movement. Mentioned in the discussion are the entries “conservatives” and “collectivism” in the Ayn Rand Lexicon, Ayn Rand’s essay “Conservatism: An Obituary,” and Elan Journo’s essay “The Vice of Nationalism.” This podcast was recorded on October 21, 2020. Watch or listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Keith Lockitch discuss the newly released encyclical by Pope Francis, “Fratelli Tutti" ("Brothers All"). They argue that this document is an attack on freedom and capitalism — but is consistent with the Christian worldview. Among the topics covered: The main concern raised by the Pope: political and social division, and what he thinks is the cause of the problem (individualism);His proposed solution: charity and “solidarity,” both private and governmental;A question that the Pope doesn’t ask but should: what is the source of wealth?How Marxism stole the deeply Christian idea that property rights are dispensable and that we have a duty to share wealth with the poor;Ayn Rand’s comments on a previous encyclical, “Populorum Progressio”(1967), where she critiqued many of the same ideas in Pope Francis’s document today. Mentioned in the discussion are the pope’s latest encyclical, Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, her essays “Requiem for Man” in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal and “Of Living Death” in The Voice of Reason, the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on “religion,” and Onkar Ghate’s article “Finding Happiness and Morality Without God.” This podcast was recorded on October 14, 2020. Watch or listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss the new push for socialism in America, and the ideas that motivate today’s socialist politicians and intellectuals. Among the topics covered: What socialism really is, and why it causes destruction and oppression;Why “democratic socialism” is a euphemism that trades on confusion about “democracy”;How socialism is motivated by deeper moral premises — and their alternatives;Why most opponents of socialism in America are ineffective;Whether Scandinavian countries are exemplars of socialist success. Mentioned in the discussion are Ayn Rand’s talk “Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World,”the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on “Socialism,” Ben Bayer’s articles “Meet the New Socialism, Same as the Old” and “The Dishonesty of ‘Real Socialism Has Never Been Tried,’” and Elan Journo’s “The Berlin Wall and the Evil of Socialism.” This podcast was recorded on September 30, 2020. Watch or listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. Podcast audio:

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, more people are understandably focused on their immediate physical well-being. There’s more urgency to stay healthy and to secure food, supplies, and employment. But what about self-esteem? It is certainly nice to have, but is it essential? Do we need it all the time, or can we set it aside until other, more basic, needs are satisfied? In this episode of New Ideal Live, Gena Gorlin, professor and clinical psychologist, joins ARI’s Ben Bayer to discuss the role of self-esteem in life and during times of crisis. The discussion draws on Gorlin’s recent article “COVID-19 and the Meaning of Life.” Bayer and Gorlin discuss the crucial importance of meeting both our physical and spiritual (i.e., psychological) needs. How to satisfy those needs may change over time or during times of crisis, but the needs themselves are constant. They also discuss Ayn Rand’s view of self-esteem as a cardinal moral value and the role of the concept in her fiction. For additional resources on the value of and need for self-esteem, look at the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry on self-esteem and Gorlin’s recent Objectivist summer conference lecture Earning Your Own Trust: The Psychology of Honesty. This podcast was recorded on May 20, 2020. Watch or listen to the discussion below. To see future episodes of New Ideal Live, join the Zoom broadcast on Mondays or Wednesdays at 11 a.m. Pacific and take part in the Q&A. Go to https://zoom.us/join and use meeting ID: 812-506-718. Or catch the livestream or recording on YouTube and Facebook. Podcast audio:

The recently released documentary Plandemic is a perfect example of the type of conspiratorial thinking that has emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic. The claim: that the virus was not "naturally occurring" and thus "manipulated" — and that it was released, "deliberately or not," on the public. In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo address aspects of the documentary in order to identify and explain several key characteristics of conspiratorial thinking. Among other topics, they discuss: What real evidence for a claim looks like and how to spot arbitrary claims;What Objectivism’s theory of knowledge has to offer in terms of how to think about conspiracies and the facts presented to us;Why conspiratorial thinking is sometimes appealing to self-proclaimed “individualists.” Mentioned in the podcast are three additional resources of interest: Bayer’s articles “An Alternative to Conspiracism’s Foolish Illusions” and “Analyzing the Conspiracist Firestorm over Notre Dame,” and the Ayn Rand Lexicon entry “Arbitrary.” This podcast was recorded on May 18, 2020. Watch or listen to the discussion below. To see future episodes of New Ideal Live, join the live Zoom broadcast on Mondays and Wednesdays at 11 a.m. Pacific to take part in the Q&A. Go to https://zoom.us/join and use Meeting ID: 812-506-718. Or catch the livestream or recordings on YouTube and Facebook. Podcast audio:

Introduction, Ayn Rand Lexicon, Soldier Dead, conclusion

Monologue, The Ayn Rand Lexicon, The Thirty Covert Manipulation Techniques

Monologue, Ayn Rand Lexicon, The Death of Right and Wrong, The Black Book of the American Left

The Drill - Monologue, Ayn Rand Lexicon, Benjamin Wiker

The Drill - Monologue, Ayn Rand Lexicon, Tammy Bruce, David Horowitz

The Drill - Monologue, The Ayn Rand Lexicon, The ten books every conservative must read, jokes

The Drill - Ayn Rand, House, Breaking Bad, jokes

Story Time - Monologue, Ayn Rand Lexicon

  I learned from my conversation with Brian Peters that you could auto"magically" manage your new media accounts and be a social media evangelist at the same time. As a former purchaser, it gave me a kick to learn about a company without regular sales people. I wonder what a Happiness Hero is reading at the moment? This episode was recorded on August 9, with the Ringr app. I downloaded the recording (audio format: mono mix, sample rate 44 kHz, Flac, 114.6 MB) to my MacBook and then did the post production with Auphonic (112 kbps, mp3, 53.1 MB). Podcasting equipment: iPhone 6S Plus, iRig Mic Cast microphone, and SnapRecorder portable recording booth. Show notes: 00 @Brian_G_Peters 02 Jon Ferrara 03 Ringr 04 Amy Ingram - X.ai 04 Gothenburg, Sweden 04 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 05 Buffer CultureLab podcast 06 Note to self tweet 07 Scott Stratten 10 Buffer purchased Respondly 13 "Social media evangelist" - Stefan Engeseth  13 10,000 hour rule - Malcolm Gladwell 14 @Tamar 16 Social media marketing video - Buffer 17 Tim Sinclair 19 Pierre DeBois 20 Instagram - Buffer 22 Social media study - Buffer 22 Gated content 23 Fizzle - [Editor's note: affiliate link.] 24 "No sales people" - Buffer 25 Zappos Library List 25 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell - [Editor's note: affiliate link.]  27 Audible Trial - mid-roll placement [Editor's note: affiliate link.] 28 Audible podcasts... - Forbes 28 Wall Street Journal - Audible 29 Chris Reimer - Happywork 29 Happywork: A Business Parable About the Journey to Teamwork, Profit, and Purpose by Chris Reimer - [Editor's note: affiliate link.] 30 Brent Leary's interview with Jon Ferrara - Small Business Trends 30 Los Angeles Rams - New England Patriots 30 Trader principle - Ayn Rand Lexicon 31 The Objectivist Ethics. The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism  [Editor's note: affiliate link.] by Ayn Rand. 32 Ayn Rand and Silicon Valley by Jason Crawford. 33 EGO NetCast standalone podcast / podcatcher app: Amazon appstore for Android Apple App Store Google Play 34 Libsyn 34 Overcast.fm 37 Groundswell, Expanded and Revised Edition: Winning in a WorldTransformed by Social Technologiesby Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. [Editor's note: affiliate link.] 37 Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead by Charlene Li. [Editor's note: affiliate link.] 38 Facebook ads guide - Buffer 40 Five Lessons Learned from my Start-up — And why I’d Do it Again by Martin Lindeskog - OPEN Forum 40 Coffee-houses: The Internet in a Cup - The Economist 42 Write Epic Shit by Corbett Barr. - Fizzle 42 My First Book on Tea with Illustrations by John Cox - #teaFTWbook 43 EGO NetCast caricature by John Cox. John Cox Art. 43 How to Cast a Vision So People Listen - Building a Story Brand podcast 44 Chai tea Rooibos in Vancouver. 45 "Red bush tea" - Wikipedia 45 Masala chai - Wikipedia 45 Persian chai - My Persian Kitchen 45 Amateur (lover of...) - Wikipedia 46 Kombucha - Kitchn 49 Kombucha in Vancouver - YellowPages 49 Micro... craft beer - Food Republic 50 Anchor Brewing Company 50 Slack - Lyceum 51 Rocketbook 51 The Bulletjournalist 51 Moleskine - Wikipedia 51 Frixion pen - Wikia 54 "Awesome plan" - Buffer 54 Pablo image creator - Buffer 55 Respond by Buffer 55 Support EGO NetCast  56 Video marketing - Buffer 56 Ileane Smith - Busker "rewarding live video" 58 .co Colombia - Wikipedia 58 .io "in - out"  (British) Indian Ocean (Territory) - Wikipedia 58 Matcha green tea - Lyceum on YouTube 59 Tea53 black tea blend - GOT-Tea-Party.com 60 OMG .coffee hipster domain? - Hover 62 Caffeine consumption by country - Caffeine Informer 63 Starbucks Takes a 3-Hour Coffee Break - The New York Times 63 Starbucks National Training Day: Did it Work? - Josh Bersin    

  I learned from my conversation with Brian Peters that you could auto"magically" manage your new media accounts and be a social media evangelist at the same time. As a former purchaser, it gave me a kick to learn about a company without regular sales people. I wonder what a Happiness Hero is reading at the moment? This episode was recorded on August 9, with the Ringr app. I downloaded the recording (audio format: mono mix, sample rate 44 kHz, Flac, 114.6 MB) to my MacBook and then did the post production with Auphonic (112 kbps, mp3, 53.1 MB). Podcasting equipment: iPhone 6S Plus, iRig Mic Cast microphone, and SnapRecorder portable recording booth. Show notes: 00 @Brian_G_Peters 02 Jon Ferrara 03 Ringr 04 Amy Ingram - X.ai 04 Gothenburg, Sweden 04 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 05 Buffer CultureLab podcast 06 Note to self tweet 07 Scott Stratten 10 Buffer purchased Respondly 13 "Social media evangelist" - Stefan Engeseth  13 10,000 hour rule - Malcolm Gladwell 14 @Tamar 16 Social media marketing video - Buffer 17 Tim Sinclair 19 Pierre DeBois 20 Instagram - Buffer 22 Social media study - Buffer 22 Gated content 23 Fizzle - [Editor's note: affiliate link.] 24 "No sales people" - Buffer 25 Zappos Library List 25 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell - [Editor's note: affiliate link.]  27 Audible Trial - mid-roll placement [Editor's note: affiliate link.] 28 Audible podcasts... - Forbes 28 Wall Street Journal - Audible 29 Chris Reimer - Happywork 29 Happywork: A Business Parable About the Journey to Teamwork, Profit, and Purpose by Chris Reimer - [Editor's note: affiliate link.] 30 Brent Leary's interview with Jon Ferrara - Small Business Trends 30 Los Angeles Rams - New England Patriots 30 Trader principle - Ayn Rand Lexicon 31 The Objectivist Ethics. The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism  [Editor's note: affiliate link.] by Ayn Rand. 32 Ayn Rand and Silicon Valley by Jason Crawford. 33 EGO NetCast standalone podcast / podcatcher app: Amazon appstore for Android Apple App Store Google Play 34 Libsyn 34 Overcast.fm 37 Groundswell, Expanded and Revised Edition: Winning in a WorldTransformed by Social Technologiesby Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. [Editor's note: affiliate link.] 37 Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead by Charlene Li. [Editor's note: affiliate link.] 38 Facebook ads guide - Buffer 40 Five Lessons Learned from my Start-up — And why I’d Do it Again by Martin Lindeskog - OPEN Forum 40 Coffee-houses: The Internet in a Cup - The Economist 42 Write Epic Shit by Corbett Barr. - Fizzle 42 My First Book on Tea with Illustrations by John Cox - #teaFTWbook 43 EGO NetCast caricature by John Cox. John Cox Art. 43 How to Cast a Vision So People Listen - Building a Story Brand podcast 44 Chai tea Rooibos in Vancouver. 45 "Red bush tea" - Wikipedia 45 Masala chai - Wikipedia 45 Persian chai - My Persian Kitchen 45 Amateur (lover of...) - Wikipedia 46 Kombucha - Kitchn 49 Kombucha in Vancouver - YellowPages 49 Micro... craft beer - Food Republic 50 Anchor Brewing Company 50 Slack - Lyceum 51 Rocketbook 51 The Bulletjournalist 51 Moleskine - Wikipedia 51 Frixion pen - Wikia 54 "Awesome plan" - Buffer 54 Pablo image creator - Buffer 55 Respond by Buffer 55 Support EGO NetCast  56 Video marketing - Buffer 56 Ileane Smith - Busker "rewarding live video" 58 .co Colombia - Wikipedia 58 .io "in - out"  (British) Indian Ocean (Territory) - Wikipedia 58 Matcha green tea - Lyceum on YouTube 59 Tea53 black tea blend - GOT-Tea-Party.com 60 OMG .coffee hipster domain? - Hover 62 Caffeine consumption by country - Caffeine Informer 63 Starbucks Takes a 3-Hour Coffee Break - The New York Times 63 Starbucks National Training Day: Did it Work? - Josh Bersin    

I recorded my conversation with Ivana Taylor with Call Recorder and Samson Meteor USB studio microphone, on August 6. I haven't edited the recording in any manner. I wonder how long time it would take to process a 60 min. interview with Auphonic's service. Show notes: 00:00 Ivana Taylor's Twitter profile @DIYMarketers. 00:01 Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends. 00:05 [Editor's note: Paper falling on the microphone…] 00:05 TBBO 320: Ivana Taylor – How to Do Less Marketing and Make More Money Online - The Boomer Business Owners 00:10 Martin Lindstrom 00:14 Influencer marketing - Wikipedia 00:15 Review of QuickBooks Online 00:16 Here’s Who To Follow to Get The Best Small Business Advice (for FREE) 00:17 John Jantsch 00:17 Dustin Luther - Dun & Bradstreet 00:18 Get Little Bird 00:21 SocialBro 00:21 Create Twitter email lists and other cool automations - www.iftt.com 00:22  Trader Principle - Ayn Rand Lexicon 00:22 Ayn Rand's essays - Philosophy: Who Needs It 00:22 John Galt 00:22 Howard Roark 00:25 Payment in silver... 00:26 Free Market Revolution in Greek: Discussion between Yaron Brook and the translator (timemark 5:26 on selfishness) 00:30 Selfishness - Ayn Rand Lexicon  00:34 Register for Bizapalooza: http://smallbizapalooza.com/ 00:43 Participate in the Canon Contest to win a printer (US ONLY): Tweet your small business challenge to@DIYMarketers and use the #MAXIFYContest hashtag 00:44 Barbara Corcoran of Shark Tank: Real Entrepreneurs Better Off Trying, Failing Than Never Trying at All. 00:46 The printer I won in 2010... 00:51 #RandomHangouts 00:51 DIYMarketers Masterclass Hangout - Time Management Tips For Busy Marketers 00:51 DIYMarketers "Read it and Reap" 00:52 On Ivana's Kindle: Books on my kindle: Authors: Tim Castleman (He writes a ton of books on how to write a lot really fast and other hacks), John Locke (The Donovan Creed Series), Sam Horn (POP - developing tag lines and names), Other interesting stuff I read - Abraham-Hicks 00:54 TeaFTWbook - It will illustrated by John Cox. 00:58 And the podcast epsiode turns into "explicit" status... ;) 00:58 The number 6 in Swedish... ;) 01:00 www.DIYmarketers.com 01:00 Develop your marketing message, take the marketing personality quiz: Your Signature Marketing Style 01:02 www.egonetcast.com/support 01:03 DYIMarketers book app You could also listen to EGO NetCast by subscribing to the podcast RSS feed via iTunes and Stitcher, or download EGO NetCast's standalone podcast app (Apple App Store / Amazon appstore for Android / Google Play).

I recorded my conversation with Ivana Taylor with Call Recorder and Samson Meteor USB studio microphone, on August 6. I haven't edited the recording in any manner. I wonder how long time it would take to process a 60 min. interview with Auphonic's service. Show notes: 00:00 Ivana Taylor's Twitter profile @DIYMarketers. 00:01 Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends. 00:05 [Editor's note: Paper falling on the microphone…] 00:05 TBBO 320: Ivana Taylor – How to Do Less Marketing and Make More Money Online - The Boomer Business Owners 00:10 Martin Lindstrom 00:14 Influencer marketing - Wikipedia 00:15 Review of QuickBooks Online 00:16 Here’s Who To Follow to Get The Best Small Business Advice (for FREE) 00:17 John Jantsch 00:17 Dustin Luther - Dun & Bradstreet 00:18 Get Little Bird 00:21 SocialBro 00:21 Create Twitter email lists and other cool automations - www.iftt.com 00:22  Trader Principle - Ayn Rand Lexicon 00:22 Ayn Rand's essays - Philosophy: Who Needs It 00:22 John Galt 00:22 Howard Roark 00:25 Payment in silver... 00:26 Free Market Revolution in Greek: Discussion between Yaron Brook and the translator (timemark 5:26 on selfishness) 00:30 Selfishness - Ayn Rand Lexicon  00:34 Register for Bizapalooza: http://smallbizapalooza.com/ 00:43 Participate in the Canon Contest to win a printer (US ONLY): Tweet your small business challenge to@DIYMarketers and use the #MAXIFYContest hashtag 00:44 Barbara Corcoran of Shark Tank: Real Entrepreneurs Better Off Trying, Failing Than Never Trying at All. 00:46 The printer I won in 2010... 00:51 #RandomHangouts 00:51 DIYMarketers Masterclass Hangout - Time Management Tips For Busy Marketers 00:51 DIYMarketers "Read it and Reap" 00:52 On Ivana's Kindle: Books on my kindle: Authors: Tim Castleman (He writes a ton of books on how to write a lot really fast and other hacks), John Locke (The Donovan Creed Series), Sam Horn (POP - developing tag lines and names), Other interesting stuff I read - Abraham-Hicks 00:54 TeaFTWbook - It will illustrated by John Cox. 00:58 And the podcast epsiode turns into "explicit" status... ;) 00:58 The number 6 in Swedish... ;) 01:00 www.DIYmarketers.com 01:00 Develop your marketing message, take the marketing personality quiz: Your Signature Marketing Style 01:02 www.egonetcast.com/support 01:03 DYIMarketers book app You could also listen to EGO NetCast by subscribing to the podcast RSS feed via iTunes and Stitcher, or download EGO NetCast's standalone podcast app (Apple App Store / Amazon appstore for Android / Google Play).

Topic: Jeremy Frandsen of Internet Business Mastery Academy joins me to explore how one can transform an intrinsically motivated pursuit into a livelihood. I was motivated to contact Jeremy after reading his blog post, The Secret to Endless Motivation. Discussion: -What is the the mission of Internet Business Mastery -Podcasting in the Beginning -The Single Motivating Purpose -The importance of Voluntary Value Exchange -Finding A Niche -Trail and Error -The $100 Start-Up -Ways you can tell that starting a business is an intrinsic pursuit -A checklist for taking action Bumper Music: "Woodstock" Crosby, Stills and Nash Look Closer: Internet Business Mastery Academy - http://internetbusinessmastery.com/ Complete Liberty Podcast - http://completeliberty.com/ Ayn Rand Lexicon - http://aynrandlexicon.com/ The $100 Start-Up - http://100startup.com/

Topics: 1. John, the Admin of the Libertarian Teachers Group at schoolsucksproject.com, posted an interesting piece in the forum called Learning Theories and their Subsequent Pedagogy – Which one is most Libertarian? 2. Osborne and I discuss this post on our 3-21-13 live show, and I read a paperI wrote in 2002 called "My Philosophy of Education", written for an Intro to Education class. 3. I provide more detail of the newest of the learning theories: connectivism 4. I try to answer the question, Which learning theory is most Libertarian? Full Discussion: Objectivism (5 Branches of Philosophy) 1. Metaphysics 2. Epistemology-Logic 3. Ethics 4. Politics 5. Aesthetics Metaphysical Laws 1. Identity 2. Causality 3. Non-Contradiction Bumper Music: "I'll Do Anything" Jason Mraz Look Closer: Learning Theories Info_Graphic - http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/03/learning-theories-every-teacher-should.html Key Terms for Cognitivism and Constructivism - http://www.coe.fau.edu/faculty/cafolla/courses/eme6051/cognitivism.htm Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm Metaphysics - http://wiki.objectivismonline.net/Metaphysics Ayn Rand Lexicon - http://aynrandlexicon.com/ An Introduction to Objectivism Part1 - Lecture by Leonard Peikoff - http://youtu.be/cW-xUEYaBnU Trivium - http://www.triviumeducation.com/trivium/ Index of Learning Theories and Models - http://www.learning-theories.com/

...vs. Reason, Manners, Composure, Meaningful Communication and Philosophy Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are. Metaphysical Laws 1.Identity 2.Causality 3.Non-Contradiction Topic: Tony Myers (TragedyAndHope.com) and I discuss what is troubling us about Alex Jones, Piers Morgan, and the current gun control debate. Look Closer: Starsuckers(Documentary) http://www.starsuckersmovie.com/ Complete Liberty Podcast http://completeliberty.com/ Logical Fallacies Handlist http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/fallacies_list.html Cognitive Distortions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/ How Cognitive Distortions Cause Emotional Distress http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/popular.html Argumentum Ad Populum http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/popular.html Argumentum Ad Hominem http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/person.html Straw Man Fallacy http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html The Existential Fallacy http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/existen.htm

Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are. Metaphysical Laws 1.Identity 2.Causality 3.Non-Contradiction Topic: Wes Bertrand (Complete Liberty Podcast) and I discuss cognitive distortions, exaggerated and irrational thoughts common in thinking about self, society, politics and relationships. Cognitive distortions can interfere with our most sincere efforts to think in a clear, consistent and logical manner. Bumper Music: "Woodstock" Crosby, Stills and Nash Look Closer: Complete Liberty Podcast http://completeliberty.com/ Happiness Counseling http://happinesscounseling.com/ Cognitive Distortions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion Logical Fallacies Basics http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/ How Cognitive Distortions Cause Emotional Distress http://www.gapsychology.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=217 What is a Cognitive Bias? http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-cognitive-bias.htm Cognitive Restructuring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_restructuring Mood Repair Strategies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mood_repair_strategies The Feeling Good Handbook by David Burns http://books.google.com $6.00/Month - Join the A/V Club and Receive Bonus Content We need 150 monthly subscribers! If you listen to the show and enjoy the videos, please consider making a commitment of $6.00 per month, or about $.20 per day. When we launch the new site, you'll have access to a bonus content section that will be updated weekly. Please sign up right here.

Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are. Metaphysical Laws 1.Identity 2.Causality 3.Non-Contradiction Topic: An investigation of a very compelling conspiracy theory involving a visionary film maker, the media, the final frontier, the government and a fight against my own confirmation bias. The fallacies covered in this show can all be categorized under Fallacies of Omission, where essential material is left out of an argument or the presenter deliberately misdirects others from crucial information (or lack thereof). This group includes: -The Loaded Question -Stacking the Deck, or Cherry Picking -The Argument From the Negative -The Appeal to Ignorance -Hypothesis Contrary to Fact Also covered: -Backround knowledge, Grammer -Rhetorical Styles in documentaries -The Concept of Unfalsifiablity -Kubrick's methods This podcast includes the edited 11-15-12 live show, the after-show and additional non-live segments. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST. To watch the full video version of this podcast, recorded live, click here. Bumper Music: "Your Wildest Dreams" The Moody Blues To resume the discussion with Sam from where we left off on the podcast, jump to 41:50 in this video. Look Closer: Logical Fallacies Handlist http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/fallacies_list.html Logical Fallacies Basics http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/ How a NASA Lens became Kubrick’s Obsession http://filmmakeriq.com/2012/03/how-a-nasa-lens-became-kubricks-obsession/ The Secrets of The Shining? http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/luna/luna_apollomissions10.htm Alchemical Kubrick, 2001: The Great Work On Film, by Jay Weidner http://www.alchemylab.com/alchemical_kubrick.htm Red Ice Radio - Jay Weidner - Hr 1 - Kubrick's Odyssey: How Stanley Faked the Moon Landings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_00nQHdOHuw A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Moon - Documentary-ish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZiGgfBh2x0 Myth Busters Episode 104: NASA Moon Landing http://mythbustersresults.com/nasa-moon-landing

Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are. Metaphysical Laws 1.Identity 2.Causality 3.Non-Contradiction Topic: Today's show is a personal exercise to help me let go of a long-standing resentment against comedian and political commentator Bill Maher. Cory, Osborne and I analyze several clips from his HBO show, Real Time With Bill Maher, primarily focusing on two fallacies: composition and division. Many tangents result! Composition: This fallacy is a result of reasoning from the properties of the parts of the whole to the properties of the whole itself--it is an inductive error. Division: This fallacy is the reverse of composition. It is the misapplication of deductive reasoning. One fallacy of division argues falsely that what is true of the whole must be true of individual parts. Source: Logical Fallacies Handlist "The process of forming and applying concepts contains the essential pattern of two fundamental methods of cognition: induction and deduction. The process of observing the facts of reality and of integrating them into concepts is, in essence, a process of induction. The process of subsuming new instances under a known concept is, in essence, a process of deduction." -Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (p28) This is an edited version the 11-1-12 live show with additional non-live segments. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST. Bumper Music: "Kickstart My Heart" Motley Crue Look Closer: Logical Fallacies Handlist http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/fallacies_list.html Hasty Generalization http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/fallacies_list.html#hasty_generalization_anchor Logical Fallacies Basics http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm Logical Fallacy: Tu Quoque http://www.fallacyfiles.org/tuquoque.html Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/ HBO: Real Time With Bill Maher http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher/index.html

Picture: Immanuel Kant and his shadow Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are. Metaphysical Laws 1.Identity 2.Causality 3.Non-Contradiction Topic: Wes Bertrand (Complete Liberty Podcast) joins me to discuss what he calls the fallacy to rule them all - the stolen concept. "When modern philosophers declare that axioms are a matter of arbitrary choice, and proceed to choose complex, derivative concepts as the alleged axioms of their alleged reasoning, one can observe that their statements imply and depend on “existence,” “consciousness,” “identity,” which they profess to negate, but which are smuggled into their arguments in the form of unacknowledged, “stolen” concepts." -Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (p59–60) This is an edited version the 10-18-12 Ustream-only live show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST. To watch the full, unedited video show, click here. Bumper Music: "Cypher(Instrumental)" Duke West Lake "Head Over Heals" Tears For Fears Look Closer: Complete Liberty Podcast http://completeliberty.com/ The Self-Refuting Idea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-refuting_idea Logical Fallacies Basics http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/ The Stolen Concept, by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/the-stolen-concept/

Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are. Metaphysical Laws 1.Identity 2.Causality 3.Non-Contradiction Topic: Activists Derrick J. Freeman and Michele Seven join us to discuss civil disobedience and the new documentary film, Derrick J's Victimless Crime Spree. We use their stories to examine a quasi-logical fallacy called argumentum ad bacculum (appeal to force). This fallacy is the #1 tool of people calling themselves government. "Of all the fallacies, the Ad Baculum fallacy may be the most difficult to reconcile with some form of legitimate reasoning. The Ad Baculum fallacy does not so much imitate good reasoning as announce that every effort at reasoning has come to an end. Now violence will be used instead. Persuasion is not the point, only compliance." -Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole, L'Art de Penser (The Art of Thinking), 1662 This is an edited version the 9-13-12 live show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST. To watch the full, unedited video show, click here. Co-Hosts: Osborne Bumper Music: "Home" Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros "How Come" Ray Lamontagne Look Closer: Appeal to Force (Ad Baculum) http://courses.csusm.edu/fallacies/force.htm Logical Fallacies Basics http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/ School Sucks Podcast #017: The State's Facade of Honor and Benevolence http://schoolsucks.podomatic.com/entry/2009-11-22T04_30_34-08_00 http://TragedyandHope.com http://www.tragedyandhope.com/ Trivium http://www.triviumeducation.com/trivium/

Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are. Metaphysical Laws 1.Identity 2.Causality 3.Non-Contradiction Topic: Larken Rose joins us to discuss his book, The Most Dangerous Superstition, and the logical fallacy called argumentum ad verecundiam (appeal to authority). This fallacy often lays the groundwork for many additional logical and rhetorical missteps in debate. This is an edited version the 9-6-12 live show. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST. Co-Hosts: Cory Bumper Music: "Sing Me Back Home" Merle Haggard Look Closer: The Appeal To Authority (Defined) http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority Genetic Fallacy (defined) http://www.fallacyfiles.org/genefall.html Logical Fallacies Basics http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/ POLITICAL DEBATE CONTRACT http://edu-lu-tion.com/resources/political_debate_contract http://TragedyandHope.com http://www.tragedyandhope.com/ Trivium http://www.triviumeducation.com/trivium/

Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are. Metaphysical Laws 1.Identity 2.Causality 3.Non-Contradiction Topic: A discussion about my new idea for advancing the message of liberty, articulating a sound methodology, and removing the irrationality and pacifying the emotional mayhem of the average political argument. 'Tis the season... POLITICAL DEBATE CONTRACT For honest, rational, and meaningful discussions about important issues. TOPIC/QUESTION: _________________________________________________ All Parties Agree to Avoid Red Herrings Clause #1: Clarification of Purpose Before proceeding, all parties must communicate the goals they are trying achieve through this argument/conversation. More importantly, all parties must identify the intellectual or emotional needs they are trying to have met through such an interaction. Clause #2: Ethical and Logical Consistency Because almost all political arguments grow from the need of all parties determine right from wrong, or moral from immoral, each party must articulate a clear foundation of principles or axioms upon which all of their political positions are built. EXAMPLE: “I am a Republican/Democrat/Libertarian, and that political belief system is built upon the impenetrable idea that (insert principles here) . Please avoid abstract language and subjective claims like: “America is the greatest country in the world!” OR “Freedom is the answer.” OR “Obama says...” All your subsequent arguments and statements must not contradict the principles you put forward at this step. All elements of your current political belief system must be consistent with these principles. Clause #3: Avoiding the Box While the discussion must stay on the agreed upon topic, all parties must agree to abstain from the tactic of putting their opponent(s) "in a box." This refers to attempts to control the context of the discussion in a way that is advantageous to you. EXAMPLES: 1. Lifeboat Scenarios 2. Straw-Man Fallacy 3. Loaded Questions (Trap-Setting) 4. Special Pleading Fallacy (The Retreat) Clause #4: Foundation of Facts All parties must be able to demonstrate that their opinion/claim/call-to-action is built upon a foundation of facts with which their opponent agrees. This is often the most challenging part of any debate because each party will have different strengths and deficits in his or her knowledge-base. Both parties will agree to fact-checking in real time (internet) if necessary. Clause #5: Ideological Flexibility You agree that if your opponent can clearly demonstrate that your argument contains numerous inconsistencies, contradictions or other general errors in reasoning, you will follow up by doing all of the following: 1. avoid launching into an emotion-driven invective against your opponent, including ad hominem attacks (aka FIGHT) 2. avoid the “taking my ball and going home” tactic, where you say something like, “I've had it with this! There's no talking to you! And everyone is entitled to their own opinion anyway. Goodbye.” (aka FLIGHT) 3. admit that your position needs additional research and consideration 4. agree to consume two (2) pieces of educational media chosen for you by your opponent (articles, book excerpts, videos, podcasts, etc...) SOME EXAMPLES of common reasoning errors to avoid: Appeal to Emotion/Fear, Appeal to Authority, Appeal to Popularity, Circular Reasoning, Ambiguity, Equivocation, the Genetic Fallacy, Fallacy of Composition/Division, Fallacy of the Excluded Middle, and Appeal to Tradition Signatures: PARTY 1 ______________________________ PARTY 2 ______________________________ WITNESS ______________________________ This is an edited version the 8-30-12 live show and the After School (Sucks) Special. School Sucks is live on the Liberty Radio Network and UStream Thursdays at 10pm EST. Co-Hosts: Cory and Osborne. J.J. from Starfall Media joins us during the after-show. Bumper Music: "Listen" Chicago Look Closer: Logical Fallacies Basics http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/ POLITICAL DEBATE CONTRACT http://edu-lu-tion.com/resources/political_debate_contract The John Taylor Gatto Recovery Project (2012) https://theultimatehistorylesson.com/donate/ http://TragedyandHope.com http://www.tragedyandhope.com/ Stefan Molyneux: A Handout For Statists http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/molyneux/molyneux4.html Trivium http://www.triviumeducation.com/trivium/

"Logic is man’s method of reaching conclusions objectively by deriving them without contradiction from the facts of reality—ultimately, from the evidence provided by man’s senses. If men reject logic, then the tie between their mental processes and reality is severed; all cognitive standards are repudiated, and anything goes; any contradiction, on any subject, may be endorsed (and simultaneously rejected) by anyone, as and when he feels like it." -Any Rand “Nazism and Subjectivism,” The Objectivist, Feb. 1971 Topic: Wes Bertrand joins me to discuss the foundational concepts in the science of logic. We use the work of Leonard Peikoff (Objectivism: The Philosphy of Ayn Rand and An Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology) as our guide. Logic is about understanding reality in a non-contradictory way and how can we see things for what they are. -Why truth is more important than comfort -Subjectivism -Percepts to Concepts -The Stolen Concept -The Problem With Objectivism -Attitudes and Values -Approach, Communicating Effectively Objectivism (5 Branches of Philosophy) 1. Metaphysics 2. Epistemology-Logic 3. Ethics 4. Politics 5. Aesthetics Metaphysical Laws 1. Identity 2. Causality 3. Non-Contradiction Bumper Music: "If I Ruled the World (Instrumental)" NAS Look Closer: Logical Fallacies Basics http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/ Objectivism: The Philosphy of Ayn Rand http://attitudeadjustment.tripod.com/Books/OPAR.htm An Introduction to Objectivism Part1 - Lecture by Leonard Peikoff http://youtu.be/cW-xUEYaBnU http://TragedyandHope.com http://www.tragedyandhope.com/ Rand's Razor http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/rands_razor.html Achieving “mind like water” through Getting Things Done http://www.alanfurth.com/achieving-mind-like-water-through-getting-things-done/ Trivium http://www.triviumeducation.com/trivium/