Ayn Rand Institute | The Ten Commandments and DEI in Public Schools vs. the First Amendment @AynRandInstitute | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Sam Weaver discuss how the introduction of both the Ten Commandments and DEI into the public school system represents an assault on intellectual freedom.
Among the topics covered:
• How recent public-school mandates in Louisiana and Oklahoma use force to promote religion;
• Why the mandates are an assault on the First Amendment and our founding ideals;
• How the left pushes its ideas in public schools;
• Why efforts on both sides should be understood as an assault on intellectual freedom;
• Why the public education system necessarily leads to ideological disputes;
• How tribalism drives religious mandates.
Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essay “The Establishing of an Establishment” in Philosophy: Who Needs It, Tara Smith’s book The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom, Harry Binswanger’s article “The Ten Commandments vs. America,” and the New Ideal Live episode on “What’s Wrong with California’s Ethnic Studies Mandate?”
The podcast was recorded on August 7, 2024.
0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:15 Mandates using force in promoting religion
0:10:34 The mandates as an assault on the First Amendment
0:20:40 The left pushing its ideas in public schools
0:30:21 Both sides assaulting intellectual freedom
0:35:44 Public education necessarily leads to ideological disputes
0:44:29 Tribalism driving religious mandates
Resources:
Philosophy: Who Needs It: amazon.com/Philosophy-Needs-Rand-Library-Vol/dp/0451138937?tag=aynrandorgcampus-20
The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom: newideal.aynrand.org/an-excerpt-from-the-first-amendment-essays-on-the-imperative-of-intellectual-freedom
The Ten Commandments vs. America: newideal.aynrand.org/the-ten-commandments-vs-america
What’s Wrong with California’s Ethnic Studies Mandate?: youtube.com/live/Xh0xF5hACkw
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Sam Weaver discuss how the introduction of both the Ten Commandments and DEI into the public school system represents an assault on intellectual freedom.
Among the topics covered:
• How recent public-school mandates in Louisiana and Oklahoma use force to promote religion;
• Why the mandates are an assault on the First Amendment and our founding ideals;
• How the left pushes its ideas in public schools;
• Why efforts on both sides should be understood as an assault on intellectual freedom;
• Why the public education system necessarily leads to ideological disputes;
• How tribalism drives religious mandates.
Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s essay “The Establishing of an Establishment” in Philosophy: Who Needs It, Tara Smith’s book The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom, Harry Binswanger’s article “The Ten Commandments vs. America,” and the New Ideal Live episode on “What’s Wrong with California’s Ethnic Studies Mandate?”
The podcast was recorded on August 7, 2024.
0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:15 Mandates using force in promoting religion
0:10:34 The mandates as an assault on the First Amendment
0:20:40 The left pushing its ideas in public schools
0:30:21 Both sides assaulting intellectual freedom
0:35:44 Public education necessarily leads to ideological disputes
0:44:29 Tribalism driving religious mandates
Resources:
Philosophy: Who Needs It: amazon.com/Philosophy-Needs-Rand-Library-Vol/dp/0451138937?tag=aynrandorgcampus-20
The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom: newideal.aynrand.org/an-excerpt-from-the-first-amendment-essays-on-the-imperative-of-intellectual-freedom
The Ten Commandments vs. America: newideal.aynrand.org/the-ten-commandments-vs-america
What’s Wrong with California’s Ethnic Studies Mandate?: youtube.com/live/Xh0xF5hACkw
