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Live Sep 9, 2026 | Yaron Brook ShowIran; Canada; Netanyahu; UK vs Israel; Mertz vs AfD; DSA; AI; Tucker; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show#Netanyahu #October7 #Israel #iranwar #AIRegulation #TradeWar #canada #FreeMarkets #GeopoliticsToday #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #AynRand #Objectivism Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show]([email protected]/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? 🎓 Learn more about [Ayn Rand University](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

Live Sep 8, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 150)Netanyahu & 10/7; Houtis; Trade War; AI; Parenthood; PISA; Achievements | Yaron Brook ShowWatch Now: https://youtube.com/live/9JTdXX9LAyoDid Benjamin Netanyahu get an 11-day warning about October 7th — and sit on it?In this episode, Yaron Brook lays out the two new reports rocking Israel a month before its election, and argues the case for a reckoning goes well beyond one man's political survival.A month before Israel's election, two bombshell reports allege Prime Minister Netanyahu received direct warnings before October 7th — one from the President of the UAE himself — and failed to act. Yaron Brook breaks down what's credible, what's spin, and why he thinks Netanyahu has to go regardless of how this specific allegation shakes out.Then: Houthi missiles just hit Saudi Arabia in one of the largest attacks in years — is the Middle East sliding into a wider war? The US and Canada are taxing their own citizens in a trade fight neither side can win. OpenAI's own chief scientist is calling for the industry to slow itself down. And a Virginia mother just got a criminal conviction — and a spot on the state's abuse registry — for letting her five-year-old walk half a mile to a pond.Yaron Brook brings his signature no-BS, reason-first take on the week's biggest stories — plus live audience questions on Rick and Morty, Ayn Rand's cultural legacy, Mike Mentzer, Milei-style populism, and more.🔴 Watch live every weekday: subscribe and turn on notifications. Main Topics:00:20 – Netanyahu allegedly warned before October 7 — and did nothing? 00:51 – The two competing reports and why timing (one month before elections) matters 1:24 – Houthi missiles hit Saudi Arabia — is the Red Sea the next war front? 2:04 – OpenAI's own chief scientist says: slow AI down 2:38 – Good news first: driverless cars hit London, ASML bets big on the Netherlands 3:16 – Netanyahu's response to the UAE's warning, unpacked 10:05 – Has Netanyahu always misjudged Hamas? 19:41 – Why Israel needs an independent commission — now 22:12 – Inside the Houthi strike on Saudi Arabia 30:07 – The US-Canada trade war: who's really paying the tax? 41:17 – Should AI regulate itself into paralysis? 54:34 – A mom convicted for letting her 5-year-old walk to a pond 59:13 – America's PISA scores are collapsing — here's what that really means 1:06:08 – Driverless taxis go live in London 1:09:42 – ASML's new mega-campus in the Netherlands 1:12:09 – A nuclear plant comes back from the dead — thanks to a DOE loan 1:14:12 – Why long-term power contracts matter more than subsidiesLive Audience Questions1:18:22 – Should Yaron review Rick and Morty's most philosophical episode? 1:20:35 – Are Netanyahu and Trump the same kind of transactional operator? 1:23:51 – What made the Mike Mentzer story so moving? 1:24:56 – Did Ayn Rand personally save the West from another dark age? 1:26:53 – Is historian Frank Dikötter's take on China as sharp as Yaron's? 1:27:26 – Is Milei's brand of populism sustainable — or a warning sign? 1:29:24 – What does Yaron make of the Lindsay Clancy case? 1:30:29 – Does holding onto anger betray justice — or just waste energy? 1:32:35 – Can an AI actually simulate a brain? 1:33:13 – The "Mississippi Miracle": how one state fixed its schools fast 1:33:54 – Devil's advocate: is Netanyahu as culpable as Lindsay Clancy? 1:35:09 – Is Trump's deregulation push secretly Rand-influenced? 1:35:37 – Is the whole West finally moving toward deregulation? 1:36:46 – Can egoism quietly win even in an altruist culture?#Netanyahu #October7 #Israel #Houthis #AIRegulation #TradeWar #saudiarabia #canada #reading #FreeMarkets #GeopoliticsToday #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #AynRand #Objectivism Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show]([email protected]/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? 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Live Sep 7, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12 - Episode 149)Labor Day; Afd; 9/11; Civilian Casualties; Gas Prices; VW; Iran; Achievements | Yaron Brook ShowWatch Now: https://youtube.com/live/WRyx6p9ttZEIf the American worker has never had it better — 46x richer, working 50% fewer hours, dying on the job 60% less often than in 1970 — why does half of Germany just voted for a party built on ethno-nationalism and Putin-worship?Yaron Brook opens Labor Day by torching the holiday's founding myth: American workers didn't get here because of unions or government mandates — they got here because capital, competition, and freedom made human labor worth more every single year. Then he turns to Germany, where the AfD just posted its strongest result ever — 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt — and asks the uncomfortable question nobody in Berlin wants asked: what happens when the only party willing to name migration, energy collapse, and economic stagnation also happens to be ethno-nationalist and pro-Putin?From there: newly surfaced BBC footage tying a Saudi "student" directly to the 9/11 hijackers, why the Strait of Hormuz is still functionally closed a year after the war "ended," a Volkswagen factory getting a second life building Israeli missile defense systems, and why "proportionality" in warfare is — in Yaron's words — barbarism dressed up as ethics. He closes on a robotic surgical system that can now spot blood vessels and nerves live during brain surgery — proof that human achievement never stops compounding, even while politics tries to strangle it.Timestamps — Main Topics0:00 — Labor Day is a celebration of capitalism, not unions — the numbers prove it~20:00 — AfD's landslide win in Saxony-Anhalt and why Germany's "firewall" against it is collapsing~50:00 — Gas prices stay high because the Strait of Hormuz is still not actually open1:11:21 — A dead Volkswagen car plant gets reborn building Israeli missile defense systems1:19:48 — New BBC footage ties a Saudi "student" directly to the 9/11 hijackers1:32:02 — "Proportionality" in war is moral cowardice dressed up as ethics1:40:39 — A surgical robot that spots blood vessels and nerves live during brain surgeryLive Audience Questions1:35:55 — Coke Zero, Diet Coke, or cold turkey? A former addict's honest take on quitting sugar — plus the sweetener research nobody's talking about1:39:25 — Hold your nose and vote Democrat until the midterms? Where "the enemy of my enemy" ends — and whether that support should ever mean writing a check1:40:31 — Who should set safety standards — the market or the government? A machine builder explains why OSHA is barely in the room1:41:52 — Why do East Germans and Russians still get nostalgic for communism? The dark psychology of longing for your own oppression1:45:13 — What actually drives someone to become a Navy SEAL — duty, sacrifice, or something more selfish than people think?1:45:28 — Is Europe quietly dumping Microsoft for homegrown tech — a blip, or the start of a real tech decoupling from America?1:46:34 — Growing up in Israel surrounded by Holocaust survivors — what that does to how you see the world1:47:16 — Did the Enlightenment thinkers already know reason drives innovation — or did it take Ayn Rand to say it out loud?1:48:27 — Texas Senate shakeup: why national Republicans are getting cold feet on Ken Paxton — and just how dangerous a candidate is Talarico?🔴 Watch live every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell so you never miss a take.#LaborDay #AfD #Germany #IranNuclear #StraitOfHormuz #interestrates #jobsreport #economy #milei #falklandswar  #NationalDebt #FreeMarkets #GeopoliticsToday #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #AynRand #Objectivism Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show]([email protected]/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? 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Live Sep 6, 2026(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 12)Mike Mentzer -- Body Builder & Ayn Rand; Movie Reviews | Yaron & Nikos DialoguesWatch Now: https://youtube.com/live/5Z_8i4wmdNMCan you build the perfect body with the wrong philosophy? Mike Mentzer scored a perfect 300 at the 1980 Mr. Olympia, lost the title anyway, and spent the rest of his life proving that lifting weights and reading Ayn Rand are the same act of self-respect. Was he right — or did he just get robbed?Mike Mentzer never separated the barbell from the book. He built Heavy Duty training on the same premise Ayn Rand built her ethics on: that your body, like your mind, is yours to master through reason — not tradition, not volume, not somebody else's program. Today Yaron and Nikos put Mentzer's life under the bar: the perfect score the judges gave him, the title politics took from him, and the philosophy that made him say bodybuilding itself is a moral act. Then the show turns to the screen — movie reviews, what modern film does to heroism, and why so few directors can stomach showing you a man who actually wins. Live audience questions close it out.If you think fitness and philosophy live in separate rooms, this episode is going to rearrange your furniture.Timestamps — Main Topics0:00 — Intro, announcements, and what's on deck3:14 — Who was Mike Mentzer — life, background, early influences11:40 — High-intensity training: the theory21:04 — Does it actually work? The evidence for Heavy Duty37:39 — Why Mentzer walked away from competitive bodybuilding42:33 — Finding Objectivism — how Ayn Rand reshaped his thinking56:00 — Mentzer's writings and his influence on a generation of lifters1:04:07 — The deaths of Mike and Ray Mentzer1:05:08 — John Little on his friendship with Mentzer1:07:33 — Why Mentzer still fascinates people decades later1:11:33 — Steve Ditko and the Objectivist superhero Live Audience Questions1:19:40 — "Is there really a connection between a healthy mind and a healthy body?"1:23:40 — "Mentzer said self-esteem is 'the reputation you gain with yourself.' Jordan Peterson says your worth comes from your rank in a hierarchy. Who's right?"1:25:29 — "Can a janitor at Apple have as much self-esteem as Steve Jobs?"1:30:02 — "Was Arnold Schwarzenegger basically an Ayn Rand villain — a genetic-lottery-winning power luster?"1:36:53 — "Steve Ditko's superhero The Question once recited the law of identity on TV. How did that get past network censors?"1:41:59 — "Who was Rex Dante, the man who introduced Mentzer to Ayn Rand?"1:43:31 — "How does Mentzer's prime physique compare to Brad Pitt's in Troy?"1:49:42 — "Is Gad Saad's 'suicidal empathy' just Rand's warning about altruism dressed up as compassion?"1:52:30 — "Can people really be fully brainwashed? If so, how did we ever escape the Dark Ages?"1:53:55 — "Should doping be banned in sports?"2:00:10 — "Why do you say Steve Ditko was crazy?"2:04:16 — "What do you make of the Republican Party split over beef policy?"2:37:30 — "What is Rand's 'anti-conceptual mentality' — and how does it explain tribalism?"2:42:10 — "Hasan Piker and Tucker Carlson both sound like con men, not ideologues. Agree?"2:46:11 — "What actually stopped the Romans from an industrial revolution?"2:49:09 — "Did superhero movies lose something by cutting the 'man worship' the genre used to have?"2:54:50 — "Would you and Nikos ever do a live Mentzer-style high-intensity training session on the show?"#AynRand #Objectivism #MikeMentzer #Bodybuilding #IndividualismNotAltruism #FreeMarket #MovieReview #SelfMadeMan #RationalSelfInterest #Individualism #NikosSotirakopoulos #Capitalism More from Nikos Sotirakopoulos: https://www.nikos.org/Support Nikos: https://www.youtube.com/@nikos_1717🔔 Subscribe for daily takes on capitalism, individualism, and the ideas actually shaping the news.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by:-- The Ayn Rand Institute (https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)-- Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein (https://alexepstein.substack.com/)-- Express VPN (https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)-- Hendershott Wealth Management (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/-- Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project (https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)Join this channel to get access to perks: / @yaronbrook Like what you hear? 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Live Sep 5, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 148)Answering Capitalism’s Critics #3: Hasan Piker — “Technofeudalism” | Yaron Brook ShowWatch Now: https://youtube.com/live/HgG_a5U8EfkIf Big Tech is "feudal lords" and workers are "serfs," why can you delete your Facebook account, but a medieval peasant couldn't walk off his lord's land?A famous socialist streamer just told 2 million people that Jeff Bezos "won the lottery" and that Big Tech runs a new "feudalism." He's wrong on both counts — and Yaron will prove it with a 1979 Chinese village, a bag of rice, and one simple question: who actually builds the things you use every day?In episode 3 of "Answering Capitalism's Critics," Yaron breaks down Hasan Piker's viral Breakfast Club interview line by line — his embrace of Yanis Varoufakis's "technofeudalism" thesis, his claim that profit is theft, and his insistence that success is a random lottery ticket. Yaron shows why the profit motive — not government redistribution — is the actual mechanism that turned starving Chinese villages into a country that feeds 1.4 billion people, why homelessness isn't a capitalism problem, and why Europe, for all its wealth, has never produced a YouTube, a PayPal, or a Google. If you've ever heard someone call Elon Musk a "feudal lord," this is the episode that ends that argument for good.🕐 TIMESTAMPS 0:00 – Why Hasan Piker deserves a full takedown (he's the far left's best-dressed spokesman)4:59 – Playing Hasan Piker's viral Breakfast Club clip on "techno-feudalism"28:54 – "Capitalism is all about profit" — and why that's exactly the point42:53 – The 1979 Chinese village that tripled its harvest overnight (and what it proves) 1:07:14 – Debunking Varoufakis's "technofeudalism" thesis word by word 1:09:45 – "It's not their skill" — why the lottery myth is an insult to human beings 1:12:15 – You have a voluntary relationship with a company. A serf never did with his lord. 1:18:43 – Live chat weighs in: is homelessness really capitalism's fault? 1:21:13 – Somebody has to produce it — and profit is what motivates them to 1:25:03 – Tech platforms don't impose rules on you. Your own government does. 1:27:26 – Why does America build everything? (Hint: it's not an accident) 1:30:03 – Live audience Q&A: the internet reacts in real time❓LIVE AUDIENCE QUESTIONS COVERED — "If workers are exploited, why do startup founders go broke paying salaries for years before they make a dime?" — "If success is really a lottery, why won't Hasan Piker give his money away?" — "If Big Tech is 'feudal,' why can I just… quit Facebook?" — "Why doesn't Europe have its own Google?" — "Is PayPal blocking Cuba transactions a corporate abuse — or a government one?"Subscribe for the full "Answering Capitalism's Critics" series — new takedown every week.#TechnoFeudalism #HasanPiker #Socialism #Marxism #Entrepreneurship #IndividualRights #Economics #socialism #feudalism #technology #WealthInequality #MixedEconomy #AynRand #IndividualRights #Objectivism #Capitalism #FreeMarkets Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show]([email protected]/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the [Ayn Rand Institute](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

Live Sep 4, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12 - Episode 147)Economy; Meta; Galliano; Clancy; Piacenti; Volkswagen; Falkland; Achievement | Yaron Brook ShowWhy does an economy add 162,000 jobs while diesel hits $5.85 a gallon, and why is a fashion designer getting cancelled fifteen years after he apologized — while a killer's murder gets celebrated online? A jury just deadlocked 11-1 on whether a mother who strangled her three kids one at a time was "legally responsible." Meta just agreed to pay up to $18 billion to 47 state attorneys general — with zero trial, zero vote, and zero proof of fraud. And Javier Milei, self-styled libertarian hero, is now threatening private companies over the Falkland Islands. Something is badly wrong with how America decides guilt, regulates business, and defines freedom — and Yaron Brook breaks all of it down in one hour.In this episode: why the August jobs report is a testament to markets surviving government, not thriving because of it — why Trump demanding Fed rate cuts on Truth Social is economically illiterate — why Meta's mega-settlement is regulation-by-extortion in a closed room instead of a courtroom — why The Met cancelling John Galliano's retrospective reveals a culture that can't forgive — why the "mental illness" defense in the Lindsay Clancy case should worry every juror in America — why cheering the murder of Erin Piancetti reveals the same rot as cheering Luigi Mangione — why Volkswagen's 100,000 layoffs are the price of politicized business — and why Milei betraying Falklanders' private property rights for nationalist theater is a genuine disappointment.Timestamps: 0:00 — Intro / weekend show schedule 4:23 — August jobs report: 162K jobs added, why it's the market's win, not government's ~14:00 — Trump demands Fed rate cuts on Truth Social — why that's economically illiterate ~18:00 — Diesel at $5.85: how the war disrupted Gulf refining, not just crude 22:27 — Meta's $12–18B AG settlement: regulation by extortion, not by law 29:20 — The Met cancels John Galliano's retrospective — can a culture ever forgive? 38:26 — The Lindsay Clancy mistrial: is "postpartum psychosis" swallowing criminal responsibility? 41:15 — Erin Piancetti's murder and the ghouls celebrating it online 47:02 — Volkswagen cuts 100,000 jobs: the cost of politicized corporate governance 57:22 — Milei's Falklands reversal: nationalism vs. the people who actually live there 1:04:34 — Good news: Waymo hits 500,000 weekly rides, Nissan's factory robots 🔴 LIVE AUDIENCE Q&A Is discipline its own virtue, or just a piece of pride and integrity?Should mental illness ever excuse killing your own children?Does Milei's Falklands stance expose a crack in his libertarian credibility?What actually justifies government breaking up Big Tech vs. suing it into submission?🔴 Watch live and join the conversation every weekday: https://youtube.com/live/6wl6hRa5nt0#JobsReport #FederalReserve #Volkswagen #FalklandsWar #interestrates #economy #milei #NationalDebt #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #AynRand #Objectivism Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show]([email protected]/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the [Ayn Rand Institute](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

Live Sep 3, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 146)Hegseth; Iran; Russia; JDVance; Debt; Oil; Golden Shares; Founders; Achievement | Yaron Brook ShowWatch Now: https://youtube.com/live/e3TlpsJo4K4If the Secretary of Defense can fire 26 generals in 14 months without a single misconduct charge, does America still have a military — or does it have a loyalty test with tanks?Pete Hegseth just purged another wave of senior officers — and Yaron Brook says this isn't discipline, it's the politicization of the most powerful military on earth. In this episode, Yaron rips into the Pentagon's chain-of-command chaos, explains why Iran's regime is still standing despite two "wars" and a "ceasefire," and breaks down why Putin — hiding in a bunker, terrified of his own generals — is losing a war he started. Then it's JD Vance's play for 2028, a $40 trillion debt bomb nobody in Washington wants to talk about, oil markets bracing for the next shock, and Trump's "golden share" grab into private companies — a policy Bernie Sanders would love. Yaron closes where he always does: on the founders, builders, and achievers who actually move history forward, while politicians just move the furniture.If you think foreign policy, debt, and government ownership of business are separate stories — you're missing the pattern. Watch to see it.🔴 Subscribe and hit the bell — new episodes of the Yaron Brook Show drop live, unfiltered, and uncut.Timestamps00:00 — Cold open: what a Secretary of Defense is actually for 03:40 — Hegseth's purge: 26 generals fired, zero for misconduct — is this discipline or loyalty policing? 17:15 — Iran: is "regime change" real, or just a talking point Washington abandoned? 34:50 — Russia: why is Putin hiding in a bunker while claiming victory? 48:20 — JD Vance: fraud czar, peace envoy, or the man positioning to run in 2028? 1:02:10 — The debt: what happens when interest payments eat the federal budget alive? 1:14:35 — Oil: who actually controls the price at the pump right now? 1:26:00 — Golden shares: is Trump's government stake in private firms more socialist than Bernie's plan? 1:39:45 — Founders and achievement: who actually builds the things that make your life better?Live Q&A1:05:30 — "Should Hegseth resign, or is Trump the real problem?" 1:19:00 — "Is Iran's regime one uprising away from collapse — or permanent?" 1:31:15 — "If the government owns 10% of a company, who really runs it?" 1:47:00 — "Is JD Vance more dangerous than Trump long-term?"#Iran #Hegseth #Pentagon #NationalDebt #FreeMarkets #GeopoliticsToday #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #AynRand #Objectivism Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show]([email protected]/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the [Ayn Rand Institute](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

Live Sep 2, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 145)The Meaning of 9/11—25 Years Later: Objectivism, Islamic Totalitarianism, and America’s Crisis of Ideas with Elan Journo, Onkar Ghate & Yaron BrookWatch now: https://youtube.com/live/FuMxHBFkwH8"Twenty-five years after 9/11 — did America win the war, or did it just forget what the war was even about?"America didn't just fail to defeat the enemy that attacked it on 9/11. It refused to even name that enemy — and 25 years later, that refusal is why the war never actually ended.In this episode, Yaron Brook sits down with Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate of the Ayn Rand Institute to ask the question nobody in Washington wants to answer: what actually was 9/11, ideologically, and why did America's response guarantee it would happen again? They trace the line from a "War on Terror" that never named Islamic Totalitarianism as the enemy, through the strategic collapse in Afghanistan and Iraq, to a country that now doubts its own founding ideas more than it doubts the men who attacked it. This isn't a history lesson. It's a diagnosis of why the confidence America had on September 10, 2001 is gone — and what it would take to get it back.🔴 Live audience Q&A included — Yaron, Elan, and Onkar take real viewer questions on Islamism, foreign policy, and American self-doubt.🎧 Subscribe for more Yaron Brook Show episodes on Objectivism, capitalism, and the ideas shaping the world.Timestamps:0:23 — Opening: the principles of freedom and why 9/11's anniversary still matters1:25 — Introducing Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate2:18 — The history nobody teaches: what actually led to 9/113:40 — The Iranian Revolution and the birth of modern Islamism5:32 — Years of attacks on American interests — and why the U.S. kept appeasing7:27 — Bin Laden declared war on America years before 9/11 — why did nobody listen?10:38 — Was U.S. foreign policy paralyzed by its own guilt?13:34 — The morning America's illusions ended14:12 — Post-Cold War optimism and why it left America exposed17:27 — How 9/11 rewired daily life, from airports to everything else19:37 — The real failure wasn't intelligence — it was ideas21:33 — Did Edward Said's "Orientalism" disarm the West's ability to name its enemy?23:02 — How altruism as a foreign policy doctrine gets Americans killed27:01 — What America believed about itself in the '80s and '90s — and lost27:49 — 9/11's aftermath: the response that set the tone for 25 years28:27 — Inside Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism31:01 — How the government talked about 9/11 — and what it refused to say34:15 — Why wouldn't the Bush administration say the word "Islam"?39:49 — Religiosity, secularism, and the anti-American current inside the West43:41 — The Ayn Rand Institute's response — and the media backlash50:10 — "Winning the Unwinnable War": taking the argument to campuses54:01 — Soldiers sent to sacrifice for a war nobody would define57:39 — The philosophical framework the West still refuses to adopt58:27 — Bush's "democracy crusade" — and Sharia written into new constitutions1:01:44 — The Arab Spring, Hamas winning elections — the same mistake, repeatedAudience Questions1:08:00 — Did the West ever actually name its enemy, or just its tactics?1:16:00 — Is Islamic Totalitarianism still winning 25 years later?1:24:00 — What would it take for America to actually believe in itself again?1:33:00 — Was Iraq a mistake in execution, or a mistake in principle?1:41:00 — Closing thoughts: what victory should have looked like, and still could#911TwentyFiveYears #IslamicTotalitarianism #WarOnTerror #NationalSecurity #jihad #islamism #september11th #altruism #collectivism   #AynRand #IndividualRights #Objectivism #ObjectivismExplained Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.*The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by*[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show]([email protected]/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the [Ayn Rand Institute](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

Live August 25, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 144)Moscow; Iran; Canada; Data Centers; Bessent; Amargi ; Sit Awareness; Achievement | Yaron Brook ShowWhy did America's top spy make a secret four-hour trip to Moscow — and is Putin about to test NATO while Trump's own Treasury Secretary admits he's bluffing on Iran?America's CIA Director just made an unannounced trip to Moscow. Within hours, Yaron Brook is connecting it to a chilling possibility: Putin may be gearing up to test NATO on the ground, not just in rhetoric. Then he turns to Treasury Secretary Bessent, who just admitted on camera that the U.S. won't actually impose the Iran sanctions it announced — because Washington doesn't want to "blow up the global financial system." Add a real trade war with Canada started by a president who, in Yaron's words, "has the economics understanding of a five-year-old," a Texas AG who wants to make data centers criminally liable for what kids type into chatbots, and a 24-year-old hedge fund manager who turned $45 billion into ash through leverage — and you've got one of the most consequential news days of the year.Yaron Brook breaks down foreign policy, economics, and culture through the lens of reason, individual rights, and capitalism. No spin. No both-sides-ism. Just the argument.🔴 Watch live every weekday: https://youtube.com/live/rzNFI4uKqcYTimestamps:0:00 — Is Trump's foreign policy actually worse than everyone feared?~3:30 — Why did the CIA Director secretly fly to Moscow for four hours — is Putin testing NATO next?~15:00 — Bessent admits the quiet part out loud: are Iran sanctions just an empty threat?32:46 — Trump says the U.S. "lost" $60 billion to Canada — but where exactly did that money go?35:36 — Is a trade deficit ever actually a loss?52:32 — Should data centers be criminally liable for what a kid types into a chatbot?58:05 — Is Bessent the least serious man in the Trump administration?1:18:49 — Should the U.S. just cancel the national debt like ancient Sumer did?1:21:50 — Is taxing the rich harder ever going to fix the deficit?1:27:54 — How did a 24-year-old turn a hedge fund into $45 billion — and then torch it in weeks?1:41:59 — What does this collapse prove about the danger of leverage?1:47:00 — Remembering Dolly Parton and the quiet global win of polio eradication.#Iran #Russia #NATO #Canada #TariffWars #DataCenters #ArtificialIntelligence #NationalDebt #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #Ukraine #FederalReserve #FreeMarkets #AynRand #Objectivism Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show]([email protected]/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the [Ayn Rand Institute](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

Live August 24, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 143)Bonds; Gerontocracy; Canada; Iran; Ukraine; DSA; Nvidia; Achievement  | Yaron Brook ShowWatch Now: https://youtube.com/live/KkFrGluzXhk"The U.S. Treasury just started buying back its own debt — is this the first sign of a bond market panic Washington can't admit to?"The U.S. government has no cash lying around, no surplus, and no plan to ever run one — so how is the Treasury now buying back its own long-term bonds? Yaron Brook opens this episode tearing into a debt shell game that swaps long-term bonds for short-term ones, leaving America exposed the moment interest rates climb. Then he turns to the people running the country: a gerontocracy of octogenarian leaders clinging to power while the next generation waits.From there — Canada's tariff standoff, the real state of the Iran ceasefire and whether "regime change" ever left the table, why Russia's gamble in Ukraine keeps backfiring, the Democratic Socialists of America's quiet takeover of blue America, whether Nvidia is riding a real AI boom or an inflating bubble, and the human achievement story that'll restore your faith in progress. Not a fan of hedging — Yaron tells you exactly what he thinks and why.Timestamps:2:15 — Bonds: is the Treasury's buyback scheme a debt-crisis warning sign?16:40 — "If the government is broke, why isn't anyone in Washington saying so?"22:00 — Gerontocracy: why is America run by 80-year-olds?34:10 — Canada: is Trump's tariff war a self-inflicted wound?47:30 — "Should Canada just ignore Trump and go it alone on free trade?"53:00 — Iran: did the ceasefire hand Tehran a win?1:08:15 — Ukraine: is Putin's war strategy collapsing from within? 🎤 Live Audience Questions:1:19:40 — "Does Ukraine actually have a path to winning, or are we funding a stalemate?"1:27:00 — DSA: is socialism quietly capturing the Democratic Party?1:41:20 — Nvidia: AI boom or AI bubble?1:53:10 — "Is Nvidia's valuation rational or the next dot-com moment?"2:02:00 — Achievement: the story that proves human progress isn't dead#USDebtCrisis #IranPolicy #Ukraine #DemocraticSocialists #Nvidia #AIBubble #bondmarket #Ukraine #FederalReserve #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters  #Capitalism  #Objectivism #FreeMarkets Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show]([email protected]/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the [Ayn Rand Institute](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.