163 - Yaron Brook: Why Atlas Shrugged Keeps Happening
Published: January 2, 2026
Duration: 1:23:50
Collectivism, Individualism, Objectivism, Statism, Freedom, Ayn Rand, Free Speech, Entrepreneurship, Reason, Transhumanism, Free Cities, Self-Interest, Liberty, Technology, Philosophy
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Timothy Allen speaks with Yaron Brook.
Yaron is an Israeli American author and commentator best known as the longtime chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a prominent advocate of Objectivism.
In this conversation we talk about why the core political divide is, in Yaron's view, collectivism versus individualism rather than left versus right, and how growing statism erodes freedom, reason, and human flourishing.
Brook argues that modern politics, technology...