Podcasts About Ayn Rand
American FreeThought: A wide ranging 45 minute conversation that covers topics both personal and intellectual, from what it's like to appear on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the “two body” problem in academic life, to the Ayn Rand Archives and how Ayn Rand’s views on women’s rights, gay rights, and government helped form a secular right in America. (Note: interview begins at 27:55 on the podcast)
Writerhouse: Ayn Rand and the Biography That Wasn’t: A 30 minute book talk about biography, history, and transforming a doctoral dissertation into a book that is both solid scholarship and fun to read.
Cato Institute: What is Ayn Rand’s place in American political history? This short podcast covers Rand’s fiery clashes with major libertarians like the economist Milton Friedman, and explains why Rand should be considered a libertarian, even though she insisted she was not.
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- Was Ayn Rand Randian?
- Maker Faire: Where Libertarian Dreams Come True
- The Right Since Obama: The Rise of Market Fundamentalism
- My Appearance on the O'Reilly Factor
- In the Rand Archive, Part 6: On the Brandens, Continued
- Money in Politics: A Case Study from 1948
- 2009: The Year of Rand
- A question about Howard Zinn
- Bookplates: Personalize your copy of Goddess of the Market!
- In the Rand Archive, Part 5: On the Brandens
- In the Rand Archive, Part 4: What Will Happen Next?
- Top Three Questions about my interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
- Book Tour video
- In the Rand Archives, Part 3: Publishing
- In the Rand Archives, Part 2: The edited letters and diaries
- In the Rand Archives, Part 1: Gaining Access
- Libertarian Squishiness: Or Why the Right is Not Conservative
- Thoughts on the literary present as it relates to Ayn Rand
- Ayn Rand heart Farrah Fawcett
- Is Obama the next FDR?
- Classic Books about Reconstruction
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