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This sample class is based on the full-length ARU course of the same name by Don Watkins and Tal Tsfany. The full course explores the principles and attitudes that will help guide students in their work, career, and the world of business more generally. A major focus is on what the application of these ideas looks like, explored in part through a series of interviews and discussions with Objectivist businessmen, entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and professionals in various fields.
The session focuses on the nature of a fulfilling career, how to select a career, and key tips for building a fulfilling career.
Recorded live on June 17th in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024
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This sample class is based on the full-length ARU course of the same name by Don Watkins and Tal Tsfany. The full course explores the principles and attitudes that will help guide students in their work, career, and the world of business more generally. A major focus is on what the application of these ideas looks like, explored in part through a series of interviews and discussions with Objectivist businessmen, entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and professionals in various fields.
The session focuses on the nature of a fulfilling career, how to select a career, and key tips for building a fulfilling career.
Recorded live on June 17th in Anaheim, CA as part of OCON 2024
Want to join us next year?: events.aynrand.org/ocon
Subscribe to ARI’s YouTube channel to make sure you never miss a video:
youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AynRandInstitute
Download or stream free courses on Ayn Rand’s works and ideas with the Ayn Rand Institute app:
– App Store itunes.apple.com/us/app/ayn-rand-university/id1452535178?mt=8
– Google Play play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aynrandu
ARI is funded by donor contributions. You can support our work by becoming an ARI Member or making a one-time contribution: ari.aynrand.org/donate
Explore these ideas further! ARI's online publication, New Ideal, explores pressing cultural issues from the perspective of Ayn Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism: newideal.aynrand.org
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![Why the Ayn Rand Institute Comments on Current Events
In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer discuss why ARI comments on current events and why applying Objectivism to cultural issues is central to its essence as a philosophy for living on earth.
Among the topics covered:
● How ARI’s commentary fits its mission;
● Why applying Objectivism to current events is essential to understanding the philosophy;
● Why persuading minds about Objectivism requires distinguishing it from mainstream ideas;
● What is wrong with the objection that no one can speak for Ayn Rand;
● What to expect from ARI’s commentary in the future.
Mentioned in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essay “What Can One Do?” in Philosophy: Who Needs it? [https://aynrand.org/novels/philosophy-who-needs-it/?nab=0], and Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer’s discussion “How Can We Change Peoples Minds About Ayn Rands Controversial Ideas?” [https://youtu.be/HgB0P3jTqj0]
The podcast was recorded on March 10, 2025 and released on March 12, 2025.
0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:55 ARI’s mission
0:11:10 Importance of applying Objectivism
0:21:10 Distinguishing Objectivism from mainstream ideas
0:30:43 What’s wrong with the objection that no one can speak for Rand
0:38:50 ARI’s commentary in the future
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ARI is funded by donor contributions. You can support our work by becoming an ARI Member or making a one-time contribution: https://ari.aynrand.org/donate
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![The New Iran Deal: Trump Recycles Obama Amoralism
In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo and Ben Bayer discuss the Trump administration’s move to restart nuclear talks with Iran by rehashing Obama’s failed deal.
Among the topics covered:
● How the Trump administration’s new Iran deal essentially recycles Obama’s failed policy;
● Why hopes for diplomacy with Iran evade the regime’s totalitarian nature;
● Why treating a death-worshipping regime as legitimate empowers its cause;
● The role of tribalism in stripping moral principles from America’s foreign policy;
● How Trump’s amoralism blinds him to the threat of foreign dictatorships.
Mentioned in this podcast are ARI’s Resources on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East [https://newideal.aynrand.org/aris-resources-on-israel-palestine-and-the-middle-east/], Journo’s book What Justice Demands [https://newideal.aynrand.org/free-read-the-introduction-of-what-justice-demands/], and his co-authored book with Onkar Ghate Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism [https://newideal.aynrand.org/new-ari-book-examines-what-went-wrong-after-9-11/].
This podcast was recorded on April 28, 2025 and posted on April 30, 2025.
0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:38 Recycling Obama’s failed policy
0:09:26 Evading Iran’s totalitarian nature
0:22:29 Empowering Iran’s regime’s cause by treating it as legitimate
0:35:33 Tribalism and stripping moral principles from America’s foreign policy
0:39:53 Trump’s amoralism and blindness to foreign dictatorships’ threats
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![ICE, Renee Good, and the Rule of Law
In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Onkar Ghate and Agustina Vergara Cid discuss the implications of the killing of Renee Good for the rule of law.
Among the topics covered:
• [00:00] Introduction;
• [00:27] ICE operations resembling military operations;
• [8:04] The immediate aftermath of the shooting;
• [14:17] The administration’s contempt for the rule of law;
• [18:30] ICE is not real police;
• [27:23] They way ICE conducts arrests;
• [37:01] The argument that the Constitution doesn’t apply to immigrants;
• [39:31] The administration playing to its base’s tribalism;
• [48:45] The administration’s loyalty tests;
• [58:52] The shooting of Ashli Babbitt;
• [01:06:27] The future of America.
Resources:
• Synchronized videos of Renee Good’s shooting [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/video/ice-shooting-renee-good-minneapolis-videos.html]
• The White House’s January 6 timeline [https://www.whitehouse.gov/j6/]
• The shooting of Ashli Babbitt [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvL2EEniy4&rco=1]
• Harry Binswanger’s essay “ICE vs. the rule of law, not of men” [https://harrybinswanger.substack.com/p/ice-vs-the-rule-of-law-not-of-men]
• Podcast episode: ICE Raids vs. Rule of Law: Interviewing Institute for Justice’s Josh Windham [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KEOmlA-YRo]
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ARI is funded by donor contributions. You can support our work by becoming an ARI Member or making a one-time contribution: https://ari.aynrand.org/donate
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