Clubhouse Chats

Robert Tracinski - Ask Me Anything May 2022

May 31, 2022
Join Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski for a special “Ask Me Anything” where he will field your questions on Objectivism, foreign policy, politics, culture, and music.

Jason Hill - A Moral Defense of Elitism and Meritocracy Part 2

May 27, 2022
Join our Senior Scholar, Professor Jason Hill for Part 2 of a special 2-part discussion on Elitism and Meritocracy and how higher values are threatened by the crassness of today’s culture.

Richard Salsman - Ask Me Anything May 2022

May 26, 2022
Join our Senior Scholar and Professor of Political Economy at Duke, Dr. Richard Salsman for a special “Ask Me Anything” where he will be taking questions from YOU and our 64K Instagram followers on Objectivism, monetary policy, politics, etc.

Robert Tracinski - Schismatology

May 24, 2022
Join Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski where he will be answering the questions: Why is the Objectivist movement so famously fractious? Why does it keep having bitter breaks and schisms? What can be done about this, and how should we deal with our internal disagreements?

Jason Hill - A Moral Defense of Elitism and Meritocracy Part 1

May 20, 2022
Join our Senior Scholar, Professor Jason Hill for Part 1 of a special 2-part discussion on Elitism and Meritocracy and how higher values are threatened by the crassness of today’s culture.

David Kelley - Ask Me Anything - May 2022

May 19, 2022
Join our founder, Dr. David Kelley for a special "Ask Me Anything" discussion where David Kelley takes questions from the audience and our 64K Instagram followers on philosophy, politics, Objectivism, and more.

Robert Tracinski - What Drives History?

May 17, 2022
Join Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski for a discussion on the Objectivist view of what drives history, asking the questions: how do we trace the power of ideas? And is Ayn Rand’s theory of history adequate to explain the facts?

Robert Tracinski - Abortion and Roe v. Wade

May 10, 2022
Join Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski for a discussion on the philosophical issues involved in abortion and how they might be reflected in the constitutional arguments behind the leaked Supreme Court opinion that is expected to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Richard Salsman - Judge Mizelle's Ruling Against Mask Mandates

May 5, 2022
Join Senior Scholar and Professor of Economics at Duke, Dr. Richard Salsman for a discussion about Florida Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle’s tossing out of the federal mask mandate. Dr. Salsman will also give some preliminary thoughts about the Supreme Court and the recent leak regarding the Roe v. Wade decision.

Robert Tracinski - Why We Never Learn About Economics

May 3, 2022
Join Senior Fellow, Robert Tracinski, to discuss our current economic struggles, asking the question “what keeps us making the same mistakes about economics and Big Government over and over again?”

Jason Hill - Why Defeating Russia & Defending Ukraine is in America’s National Self Interest Part 2

April 29, 2022
Join Senior Scholar, Dr. Jason Hill for Part 2 of his discussion on how America should conduct its foreign policy. Listen as he explains why energy independence from Russia is mandatory for the West and the USA, arguing that a moral defense of fossil fuels is required to prevent the current dependence on Russian energy.

David Kelley - What is Cognitive Bias?

April 28, 2022
Join Atlas Society Founder, Dr. David Kelley where he will define cognitive biases, discuss why we are vulnerable to them and offer ways to defend our minds against them.

Robert Tracinski - Which Way Western Man?

April 26, 2022
Tracinski - A rising faction of the right blames "liberalism" and reason for all of our problems and advocates a return to traditionalism and nationalism. But what does such a traditional society actually look like, and what does the war in Ukraine reveal about the conservative "nationalist" cause?

Richard Salsman - "'America First' as Egoistic Foreign Policy"

April 21, 2022
Join Senior Scholar and Professor of Economics at Duke, Dr. Richard Salsman where Dr. Salsman will propose an alternative to America’s current foreign policy from an egoistic “America First” perspective where America does not act with “humanitarian” (altruistic) motives in service to other countries.

Robert Tracinski - Ask Me Anything April 2022

April 19, 2022
Join our Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski for a special "Ask Me Anything" where Tracinski takes questions from our audience and over 63K Instagram followers on Objectivism, foreign policy, politics, culture, and music.

Jason Hill - Why Defeating Russia & Defending Ukraine is in America’s National Self Interest

April 14, 2022
Join our Senior Scholar, Dr. Jason Hill for a special 2-part discussion on how America should conduct its foreign policy regarding the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Listen in Part 1 where Professor Hill will argue as to why America cannot act as he sees in an isolationist role, and must instead take center stage to defeat Russia, which he accuses of being lead by a maniacal, expansionist, former KGB thug, and war criminal whose goal is rebuilding Great Mother Russia.

Robert Tracinski - Ayn Rand's Case for Property Rights

April 12, 2022
Join Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski and his discussion on how the defense of property rights is central to the Objectivist cause for capitalism but is dealt with in a surprisingly cursory fashion in Rand’s philosophical writing. View Full Transcript Episod

Richard Salsman - Ask Me Anything - April 2022

April 7, 2022
Join Senior Scholar and Professor of economics at Duke, Dr. Richard Salsman for a special "Ask Me Anything" event where Dr. Salsman answers your questions on Objectivism, monetary policy, politics, and more. View Full Transcript

Robert Tracinski - Ayn Rand and the Esthetics of Music

April 5, 2022
Join Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski where he will explain Objectivism’s distinctive view on the role and power of art. Listen as Tracinski raises the question, if art is an “imitation of life,” what is music?

Jason Hill - Ayn Rand and Sex Part 2

March 30, 2022
Join our Senior Scholar, Dr. Jason Hill for Part 2 of his special Clubhouse series on Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Sex.

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