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Tal Tsfany, ARI’s president and CEO, will review ARI’s mission to spread Objectivism and the progress made during 2025–26.
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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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![Why the Red/Blue Button Moral Dilemma is a Trap
In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Robertas Bakula and Ben Bayer discuss the viral Red vs. Blue Button dilemma.
Timestamps:
• [0:00] Introduction
• [1:16] The Viral Dilemma
• [7:34] The Case for Red
• [14:23] The Case for Blue
• [23:09] The False Choice
• [32:16] Comparison to the Trolley Problem
• [48:10] Ayn Rand’s Alternative Approach to Morality
Resources:
• “Ethics of Emergencies,” [https://courses.aynrand.org/works/the-ethics-of-emergencies/] Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness [https://www.amazon.com/Virtue-Selfishness-Rand-published-July/dp/B00IRRERQ6]
• “Why Today’s Ethics Offers No Real Guidance,” [https://newideal.aynrand.org/why-todays-ethics-offers-no-real-guidance/] Ben Bayer, New Ideal, November 18, 2020
• Atlas Shrugged [https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191145] by Ayn Rand
• The Fountainhead [https://www.amazon.com/Fountainhead-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191153/] by Ayn Rand
This episode was recorded on April 24, 2026.
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![The Origin of Life, Agency & Purpose: Terrence Deacons Theory
In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer, Tristan de Liege, and Mike Mazza discuss Jeremy Sherman’s book, Neither Ghost Nor Machine: The Emergence and Nature of Selves.
0:00:00 Introduction
0:03:35 Science and Philosophy
0:22:30 Deacon’s Autogen Theory
0:37:35 Other Theories of the Origin and Nature of Life
0:52:40 Implications for Understanding Free Will
01:01:42 Implications for Moral Philosophy
01:15:13 Closing Thoughts
Resources:
• Harry Binswanger, The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts [https://newideal.aynrand.org/the-biological-basis-of-teleological-concepts-excerpt/]
This episode was recorded on October 10, 2025.
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