The 2024 Elections

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The 2024 Elections

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Apr 12, 2024

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What are the crucial issues in the 2024 elections? Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo analyze some of the major philosophical issues at stake, and discuss ARI’s distinctive approach to commenting on election issues.

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Apr 12, 2024

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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.

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Moral Frameworks for Addressing the Pandemic: In this episode of New Ideal Live, philosophers Aaron Smith and Onkar Ghate analyze a recent Bloomberg.com article, “How Coronavirus Is Shaking Up the Moral Universe.” That article surveys “some of the leading idea systems undergirding competing concep... by New Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute
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Government’s Proper Role During COVID-19 Pandemic: As COVID-19 continues to impact every aspect of human life, government has assumed a key role in the fight against the pandemic. Federal, state, and local governments are implementing directives intended to enforce social distancing, by New Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute
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Experts Assess Pandemic’s Damage to the Economy: The COVID-19 pandemic is having a negative impact on all aspects of human life, and the U.S. economy is no exception. The virus outbreak and governmental reactions to it have sent the stock market crashing and dealt a major economic blow. by New Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute
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Defending Against the Assault on Homeschooling: As millions of parents are now learning how to homeschool their children in the midst of the pandemic, a recent article in the Arizona Law Review by Harvard law professor Elizabeth Bartholet advocates for a “presumptive ban” on the practice. by New Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute
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Analyzing the Concerns of Black Lives Matter Protesters: What has motivated the social unrest that has now spread to hundreds of cities around the United States? Following up on our June 1 webcast on the protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, in this episode of New Ideal Live, Harry Binswanger, by New Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute
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Change Your Life. Read Atlas Shrugged.: September 2 has a special significance in Ayn Rand’s classic novel, Atlas Shrugged, as the date is mentioned throughout the book. It’s also the day when Ayn Rand actually started writing the novel, in 1946. So last week on September 2, by New Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute
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