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Midterm Elections -- Analysis & What Now?; More | Yaron Brook Show 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.

Midterm Elections Live -- From Rio de Janeiro | Yaron Brook Show (Season 12, Episode 175) Streamed live on November 3, 2026 Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/KO6lbnZGh58 What if the biggest winner of the 2026 midterms is the Democratic Socialists of America, and the man who handed it to them is Donald Trump? Yaron Brook wanted Republicans to lose this election, and to lose badly. Live from Rio de Janeiro on election night, he explains why the 2026 midterms rejected Donald Trump and gave the socialist left no mandate at all. He also explains why Trump voters, and not their critics, own what comes next. Democrats took both Carolinas. Jon Ossoff's Georgia race was called within minutes of the polls closing. Texas, Kansas, Ohio and Iowa all leaned blue as the night went on. Florida's Republican redistricting backfired. Yaron's explanation is blunt. Tariffs pushed prices up. A war in Iran was started and never won. Trump's government now owns stakes in 41 private American companies. Seven in ten voters said Congress has failed to check the president, and they're right. Then the live audience gets its turn as Yaron takes on Objectivists versus libertarians, socialism's record around the world, and more. Yaron Brook defends reason, individual rights, and laissez-faire capitalism against both the populist right and the socialist left. 💬 Drop your questions in the chat during live streams. MAIN TOPICS 0:00 Intro 1:06 Live from Rio on midterm night 2:36 Why Yaron wants Republicans crushed, not just beaten 4:13 Trump owns stakes in 41 companies, so who's the socialist? 6:38 The worst outcome would be a night with no clear verdict 7:18 Georgia gets called in minutes, and Ossoff looks like a 2028 contender 9:25 Tariffs, an unwon war and inflation are why voters are furious 11:51 This was Trump vs. America, and it's no mandate for the DSA 14:37 Florida's gerrymander backfires 17:30 Senate races to watch: Michigan, Maine, Kansas, Texas 19:46 Republicans deserve to lose, even if Democrats don't deserve to win 27:57 The dirty "two Dan Sullivans" trick in Alaska 29:42 Vivek's disgusting ad sinks him in Ohio 32:08 Exit polls show voters angry about corruption and a Congress that won't check Trump 35:49 Roy Cooper flips North Carolina 37:34 No ICE at the polls, and Trump's election challenges look weak 43:28 The GOP purged Liz Cheney, and now both parties are statist 50:05 Greg Abbott should lose Texas LIVE AUDIENCE Q&A 58:18 Will Democrats rein in ICE? 1:02:29 Why the GOP will blame the war instead of tariffs 1:09:45 Who's the bigger socialist, Mamdani or Trump? 1:12:41 Is Kant just Plato updated? 1:17:15 Is reason infallible? 1:27:32 Is libertarianism Kant plus Rand? 1:38:50 Yaron's new courses 1:44:56 Does envy come from "I could never do that"? 1:46:16 Does Finland prove teachers unions work? 1:48:57 Can cities recover from socialism? 2:06:15 If the state took your home, would you fight? 2:07:01 Can Milei make Argentina an AI hub? 2:09:42 What happens to the Iran war now? 2:11:16 How did Netanyahu do? 2:14:01 Does religion stop racism? 2:16:26 Did the dot-com crash prove capitalism failed? 2:20:16 Is Singapore's public housing a socialist success? 2:21:01 Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini? 2:21:35 Did America sabotage socialism in Burkina Faso? 2:23:40 Is AI a nuclear threat? 2:24:55 Are Objectivists too harsh on libertarians? 2:26:35 Is Florida's property tax repeal a big win? 2:28:12 Can Democrats impeach and remove Trump? 2:29:40 Will Democrats shut down AI data centers? 2:37:10 Why is the far left obsessed with Israel? 2:48:45 Can you teach ambition? #Midterms2026 #ElectionNight #Trump #Republicans #Democrats #DSA #israel #netanyahu  #ForeignPolicy #socialism #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand  Like this episode Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio. 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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.

Hoppe: The Libertarian God that Failed | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues (Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 17) Streamed live on October 28, 2026 Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/nPdwprAS0j4 What happens when a famous "libertarian" decides that kings are better than voters, and that some of your neighbors should be "physically removed"? Hans-Hermann Hoppe is the heir to Murray Rothbard and a hero to anarcho-capitalists and the new right. He called it "the so-called Holocaust" on stage. He argues that kings protected liberty better than democracy. In his ideal "covenant," people with the wrong lifestyles get "physically removed." Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos explain why Hoppe is the libertarian god that failed. Yaron and Nikos play the clip of Hoppe comparing Gaza to "the so-called Holocaust." Then they trace how he got there. Hoppe's famous "argumentation ethics" claims that the act of arguing with someone proves property rights. Yaron calls it rationalism, meaning word games cut off from reality. Rights have to start from the nature of man. Human life depends on the mind, and force is the enemy of the mind. Next comes Democracy: The God That Failed. Hoppe says a king cares for his country the way an owner cares for his house. Yaron answers with real history, from royal palaces surrounded by poverty to Henry VIII's bloodshed. In the live Q&A, Yaron and Nikos cover: why most libertarians lose interest the moment you bring up morality what made Rothbard so hateful whether fossil-fuel money hurts Alex Epstein's credibility Israel's election and its Arab parties why "conflict of interest" has become a weapon against the profit motive   Yaron Brook makes the moral case for capitalism, individual rights, and reason, against the left and the right.   🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications for live shows and Q&A. Main Topics: 00:00 Introduction and announcements 05:48 Critique of Hans-Hermann Hoppe 12:02 Hoppe and historical revisionism 18:56 Argumentation ethics analysis 28:37 Rationalism vs. reality 38:47 Democracy and monarchy 51:58 The physical removal meme 1:03:42 Individualism and covenants 1:13:54 Alt-right and foreign policy 1:25:54 Morality in state conflicts Audience Q&A 1:38:42 Why do libertarians tune out when you bring up morality? 1:45:46 Did Native Americans own the whole continent? 1:48:12 Can a contract force you to sell your shares if you change your beliefs? 1:49:25 What would Hoppe's "covenant" even mean under anarchy? 1:50:40 What's the best Christian Bale movie? 1:53:44 Should Arab parties sit in Israel's government? 2:00:17 Rothbard was a great economist, so why was he so hateful? 2:04:01 What's the best Richard Gere movie? 2:06:42 Is Hoppe's argument the best non-Objectivist case against force? 2:07:09 Habermas and critical theory: who gets the blame for Hoppe? 2:08:12 Does fossil-fuel money hurt Alex Epstein's credibility? 2:10:07 Is Spain's train crash a sign of Atlas shrugging? 2:12:22 Why are "hedonists" a threat to Hoppe's libertarian order? 2:13:20 Do corporations have personhood? 2:16:09 Should copyright last 90 years? The "Disney law" 2:17:23 Does force cut the mind off from survival? 2:17:41 Is "conflict of interest" just a smear? #HansHermannHoppe #Libertarianism #AnarchoCapitalism #Rothbard #anarchy #Capitalism #AynRand #Objectivism #FreeMarkets #IndividualRights #Socialism #Philosophy #NikosSotirakopoulos #TVReview  the overview above is written by YaronAi More from Nikos Sotirakopoulos: https://www.nikos.org/ Support Nikos:    / @nikos_1717   🔔 Subscribe for daily takes on capitalism, individualism, and the ideas actually shaping the news. 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Israel Votes; Brazil Voted; Anthropic; Starlink: Cuba; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show (Season 12, Episode 174) Streamed live on October 27, 2026 Why would a government give people up to five years in prison for selling a satellite dish? Cuba is jailing people for selling Starlink antennas. Brazil just gave an 80-year-old socialist a fourth term. Israel went to the polls in a vote that is really a referendum on one man. Yaron Brook sorts out what it all means. In Israel, Yaron has argued that Benjamin Netanyahu himself is the only thing blocking a secular, center-right government without the ultra-Orthodox parties or Ben-Gvir. In Brazil, Lula da Silva came back to win 51.8% to 48.2%. He is the first president since 1985 to win after losing the first round, and Flávio Bolsonaro still refuses to concede. Anthropic's IPO filing shows $16.3 billion in revenue and an $80.7 billion loss over six months. The filing also warns that AI could pose "existential risks," while the Pentagon brands the company a "supply chain risk." The episode covers Starlink, Cuba, and why a communist regime fears an internet connection more than a protest. It ends with this week's human achievements. The Yaron Brook Show judges the news by one standard: reason, individual rights, and capitalism. No tribe gets a pass. Subscribe and join the live Q&A. 📺 Watch: https://youtube.com/live/4bovV1jIQwA Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction & Welcome 05:15 - Israel Votes: Political Crossroads & Regional Shifts 22:40 - Brazil Voted: Free Markets vs. Statism 45:10 - Anthropic & AI Safety Guardrails 1:08:35 - Starlink in Cuba: Breaking Information Monopolies 1:30:20 - Celebrating Human Achievement Against All Odds 1:51:10 - Q&A: Can Israel survive without compromising individual rights? 2:03:45 - Q&A: Is voting enough to stop a slide into authoritarianism? 2:18:20 - Q&A: Does corporate AI censorship pose a bigger threat than state regulation? 2:30:05 - Q&A: Can satellite internet permanently dismantle dictator firewalls? 2:45:30 - Q&A: Why do modern intellectuals hate human achievement—and how do we fight back? #IsraelElection #Netanyahu #BrazilElection #Lula #Anthropic #ArtificialIntelligence #Starlink #Cuba #Musk #bolssonaro #ForeignPolicy #socialism #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand  *the overview above is written by YaronAi* 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.

Elections: Brazil, Israel, USA; France Riots; Starlink | Yaron Brook Show (Season 12, Episode 173) Streamed live on October 25, 2026 Can you save a country from socialism when the only other candidate isn't a capitalist? Brazil's 80-year-old socialist just won a fourth term. Yaron Brook was in Porto Alegre on election day, making the case against Lula da Silva. He explained why Flávio Bolsonaro was still the right vote, even though "he's no Milei." Israel votes Tuesday, and Yaron points to the one thing blocking a secular, center-right government. That obstacle is Benjamin Netanyahu himself. Also in this episode: France's riots show that tough policing works, the Starlink slowdown over Ukraine leaves Musk and Trump blaming each other, and the US midterms could turn into a mess. The Yaron Brook Show judges the news by one standard: reason, individual rights, and capitalism. No tribe gets a pass, whether left, right, MAGA, or the establishment. If you want more than one side's talking points, subscribe and join the live Q&A. 📺 Watch: https://youtube.com/live/RWfISZV5C_o Timestamps 0:00 Live from Porto Alegre, Brazil 1:20 The $100,000 Atlas Shrugged essay contest 3:10 Taking the case for capitalism across Latin America 7:25 How Brazil got here: "Less Marx, More Mises" to Lula's arrest 19:20 Lula vs. Flávio Bolsonaro in the runoff 22:10 Why Flávio Bolsonaro is no Milei 30:50 Crime and a rogue Supreme Court: the case against Lula 32:25 The Brazilian left has no bench 34:10 Serbia votes against an authoritarian 36:00 Israel's election is a vote on Netanyahu 52:40 The 62-seat coalition only Netanyahu blocks 57:50 West Bank settler violence must be stopped 59:35 Nvidia is 2% of Israel's GDP 1:01:25 US midterms and Trump's Alaska lawsuit 1:03:20 France riots: 70,000 police change everything 1:08:40 Starlink throttles Ukraine as Musk and Trump trade blame 1:15:20 Iran plots attacks on US diplomats 1:17:30 British Columbia elects conservatives for the first time in 98 years 1:18:35 A new drug cuts lung cancer deaths by 58% Live Q&A 1:20:40 Does Starlink need a real competitor? 1:21:35 If good feelings are the goal, why not do cocaine? 1:26:05 Would socialized medicine in America hurt the whole world? 1:28:00 Is Europe's decline real or hype? 1:31:05 Does Objectivism want to break up the family? 1:32:30 Is Putin behind Europe's riots? 1:33:25 Why do rich CEOs beg to be taxed more? 1:34:35 Why do some people lie as a way of life? 1:35:15 What if Aristotle had never answered Plato? 1:35:50 Why are young people falling for Marxism and antisemitism? 1:37:45 Did Ayn Rand delay the West's collapse? 1:38:40 Will the next generation be better? 1:40:05 Is tribalism making everyone angrier? 1:41:55 Would Trump use force if he loses Congress? 1:43:45 Does "Democrats are the party of Jim Crow" make sense? 1:45:55 Why is the US Navy in the North Sea? 1:47:50 Does France prove democracy fails? 1:49:40 Should Musk be sent to The Hague? 1:50:25 Should private prisons exist? 1:53:10 Why is "affordability" an anti-concept? #BrazilElection #IsraelElection #Lula #Netanyahu #Starlink #ElonMusk #FranceRiots #Midterms2026 #Cronyism #ForeignPolicy #socialism #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand  the overview above is written by YaronAi  Like this episode Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio. 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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) Explore 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.

French Apologists; Ukraine; Gulf; Cronyism; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show (Season 12, Episode 172) 📺 Watch: https://youtube.com/live/-uOJ6nzNfiM  A Congo-born immigrant grew up in a 10-square-meter apartment and built a company with 110 employees. A 22-year-old activist from an upper-middle-class family sneers at her looted storefront: "Your little shops, that's cute." Which of these two women is really French, and which one is destroying France? "Your little shops, that's cute." With that one line, a far-left French influencer showed what's really behind France's riots. Yaron Brook argues the fight in France has nothing to do with immigrants versus natives. It's a fight between the people who produce and the people who justify looting them. In this episode, Yaron looks at the French intellectuals who make the riots possible. One sociologist says private property "doesn't matter." She calls a threat to rape a young mother "collateral damage." Far-left LFI politicians say violence "can be legitimate." Yaron explains why this revolutionary left won't win, and why it will push voters toward Le Pen's nationalist, big-government right instead. He also covers the Pentagon holding back Patriot interceptors that Ukraine already paid for. Britain is now defending Saudi Arabia after Washington said no. Yaron calls out an $8 billion farm bailout meant to cover damage from Trump's own tariffs and war, and the Defense Production Act being used for a pipeline. He closes with a hopeful story. Japan has launched a mission to bring back a piece of a Martian moon. And millennials now earn more than their parents did at the same age in 29 of 32 rich countries, including the US. 📱 Get the free Ayn Rand Institute app for Leonard Peikoff's courses and the new 12-hour capitalism course by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins. (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ayn-rand-institute/id1452535178) 💬 Support the show with Super Chat. Value for value. Timestamps 00:20 France riots: 3,000 shops looted 04:48 "Your little shops, that's cute" 09:08 Producers vs. looters, not immigrants vs. natives 13:23 French intellectuals excuse looting and rape threats 23:23 How the radical left helps Le Pen 31:02 Ukraine: the Pentagon holds back Patriots Kyiv paid for 39:06 Gulf: Britain defends Saudi Arabia after the US says no 46:12 Cronyism: an $8B farm bailout and a DPA pipeline 48:17 Tariffs, Alberta, Milan, and home distilling 56:01 Nvidia chips for China and an AI-powered hack 58:26 Achievement: Japan heads for Mars's moon Phobos 1:02:57 Millennials out-earn their parents Live audience questions 1:18:04 Why do people hate self-interest? 1:20:44 Why don't economists understand capitalism? 1:24:34 Can Yaron forgive the Celtics for the Jaylen Brown trade? 1:25:12 What makes Zeffirelli's La Bohème great? 1:27:06 Should Zelensky apologize to South Korea? 1:31:04 Could anime and movies spread these ideas? #FranceRiots #Cronyism #Millennials #france #nihilism #Economics #Ukraine #ForeignPolicy #socialism #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand  *the overview above is written by YaronAi* 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.

We The Living Movie, Australian Premiere -- Conversation With Duncan Scott | Yaron Brook Show (Season 12, Episode 171) Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/b-dYmWFMf2c Mussolini banned this movie. Goebbels demanded it be pulled. Eighty-four years later, major distributors still won't touch it. Why does Ayn Rand's We the Living still scare people? Mussolini ordered every copy destroyed. Its producers hid the negatives in a basement and sent a different film to be burned in its place. Ayn Rand then refused to let anyone see it for decades. This is the incredible true story of We the Living. Yaron Brook calls it the best movie ever made from an Ayn Rand novel. In this episode he talks with four-time Emmy winner Duncan Scott, who sat alone with Ayn Rand in a dark editing room and re-cut the film reel by reel to her exact instructions. Fascist Italy took Rand's first novel in 1942 without her knowledge. Officials expected anti-Soviet propaganda. Instead, Italians saw their own lives on screen, with the shortages, the fear, and the missing freedom. The film became Italy's #1 box-office hit, and then it vanished. One of its stars joined the anti-fascist underground and hid American soldiers in Rome. Lawyers Hank and Erika Holzer spent two years hunting through Italy for the lost negatives. Now the film has been digitally restored, frame by frame, and it is touring the world, including a screening in Kyiv during an air raid. The restored film is coming to Australia for the first time, with premieres in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane in February and March 2027. Duncan Scott will be there in person. Yaron and Duncan explain why a 1942 film about three young people crushed by a dictatorship speaks to today more loudly than ever. About Duncan Scott: Duncan Scott is a film and television director and producer. He has more than 150 productions to his credit and four Emmy® Awards. He has worked with Woody Allen, Margaret Mead, Eric Clapton and Michael Caine. Much of his career has gone into projects that promote freedom. He worked with Ayn Rand to restore We the Living. He consulted on the Atlas Shrugged film series and on a stage adaptation of Anthem. He directs the Objectivist History Project, a nonprofit that is building a video history of the early Objectivist movement. Duncan is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and the Creative Council of The Moving Picture Institute. 🎬 Info and streaming: wethelivingmovie.com 🇦🇺 Australian premiere details: Australian Centre for Objectivism Timestamps:  00:20 Why this is the best Ayn Rand movie ever made  04:22 Why this film hits harder in 2026 than in 1942  08:17 How Fascist Italy stole Ayn Rand's novel  11:17 Mussolini's son helped green-light it  12:47 Editors hid dangerous scenes from the censors  13:39 The star who joined the underground and saved American soldiers  15:08 Italy's first epic and the #1 film of 1942  16:38 Goebbels watches it and orders, "You cannot show this film"  19:35 Ayn Rand sees the film for the first time  20:19 The director who threw out the script and filmed straight from the book  28:19 How a cold letter got Duncan the job of a lifetime  34:18 Rand's cut: the subplots go, the three leads stay  40:46 Where to stream or download it now  46:46 New subtitles that are faithful to Rand's own words  48:16 The artistry: the lighting, the direction, and Renzo Rossellini's score  50:18 The story: Kira, Leo, Andrei, and a deadly love triangle  51:47 Rand drew it from her own life in Soviet Russia Live audience questions:  52:30 Why did Criterion and Kino Lorber turn it down?  53:00 Do 90% of buyers really download instead of stream?  53:40 Will the score be released as a soundtrack?  54:35 Is We the Living the best entry point to Ayn Rand?  #aynrand #wetheliving #movies #IndividualRights #InstituteForJustice #FreeSpeech #capitalism #Objectivism 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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France Riots; Ukraine; Kasparov on Israel; Iran; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show (Season 12, Episode 170) Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/PYUMle6XazM France is burning because everyone wants a bigger state, and the state is already broke. When the left, the right and the mob in the street all demand more from a government that can't even protect its own shops, what comes next? 550,000 people marched in France "for school funding." By Sunday, 1,500+ shops had been looted, Limoges city hall had burned down, and 1,000 police were injured. Yaron Brook explains why this is how the welfare state ends. On this episode, Yaron argues that every faction in France wants more from a government that's already broke. Students, unions, fishermen, the far left and the far right all make the same demand. Debt is heading past 120% of GDP, and the bond market has noticed. Yaron's answer is zero tolerance for looting and no new handouts. He also takes on Trump and Vance for blaming immigrants. Paris burned in 1968 too. Then Yaron turns to the Trump administration's pressure on Ukraine. Trump waived the new Russia sanctions days after signing them. The US is now buying Russian diesel. Ukraine says it got no US missile warning before a major strike, and Rubio blamed "a software program." Next is Garry Kasparov's New York Times op-ed on Israel. Yaron agrees with Kasparov that Israel's founding compromise with the ultra-Orthodox threatens its future more than Hamas does. Yaron compares it to America's founding compromise on slavery, which ended in civil war. 👉 Subscribe, turn on notifications, and join the next Q&A to ask your questions. TIMESTAMPS 02:33 France riots: 550,000 marchers, 1,500+ shops looted, Limoges city hall burns  11:29 The Yellow Vests return, and the anarchist wing takes over  14:11 Trump and Vance blame immigrants 15:41 The antisemitism angle is easy to overplay  17:20 France's bond market alarm 25:42 Europe is stagnating, and the far right is rising  32:09 Trump is pushing Ukraine to surrender 33:32 The administration proposes dropping tariffs on 77 categories of Chinese goods 34:36 Kyiv gets hit, and Rubio's "software" excuse  40:05 Rep. Fitzpatrick: the first Republican crack?  44:29 Kasparov is right about Israel's founding compromise  47:04 America's slavery compromise and Israel's Haredi compromise  52:22 The draft exemption after October 7  55:13 Israel can't stay half theocratic and half secular  57:19 Iran: 40 days with zero tankers at Kharg Island  58:33 Is Iran timing its Hormuz attacks to the US midterms?  1:00:36 West Bank settlers 1:02:58 Temporary protected status (TPS) extended for 100,000 Ukrainians  1:04:35 Anthropic's "public good fund" and Musk's SpaceX shares for kids  1:06:17 Syria's new textbooks teach jihad  1:07:04 Achievement: Wise and stablecoins undercut Western Union's 6% fees  1:09:30 Starlink is winning flyers for United LIVE AUDIENCE Q&A  1:13:57 Can JD Vance win without Trump?  1:16:21 How does a central purpose prevent "neurotic drift"?  1:20:00 How does France survive constant riots? Where in Europe should you live? 1:24:51 More sympathy for Iranians than for the French?  1:26:13 Is Germany's AfD a Nazi party?  1:26:56 After the Yom Kippur War, did Israelis think the wars were over?  1:27:40 Did the Enlightenment have a "missing link" problem?  1:28:47 Why is Ted Cruz struggling to hire staff?  1:29:38 Is the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) worth following?  1:30:08 Did Trump betray MBS? And is Rupert Lowe friend or foe?  1:31:43 What would an Atlas Shrugged prequel be about? #FranceRiots #WelfareState #Ukraine #Israel #Iran #Kasparov #nihilism #Economics  #ForeignPolicy #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #ForeignPolicy  the overview above is written by YaronAi  Like this episode Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio. 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Fauda -- Review of the Netflix's Israeli TV Show | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues (Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 16) Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/lVDNhQjTsL8 What does it say about the West that a Netflix thriller tells more truth about Israel and the Palestinians than most universities do? Torture works. Revenge can be justice. And one line from a Palestinian father explains the whole Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos take on Netflix's hit Israeli series Fauda, all five seasons. That includes the October 7 episodes that left viewers in tears around the world. Yaron grew up in Israel and served in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces). He explains why Fauda is the most realistic show ever made about undercover counterterrorism. It shows Shin Bet (Israel's internal security service) operators who speak Palestinian Arabic, smoke Arab cigarettes so the enemy can't smell them, and come apart from living two lives at once. No martinis. No glamour. Just chaos, which is what "fauda" means in Arabic. Then the hard questions. Why does a 2020 season about a hostage rescue in Gaza look like prophecy now? Did the show help lull Israel into "the concept," the belief that power had tamed Hamas? Why is recruiting the man who raped and murdered a comrade's family as a double agent a moral outrage? Why does Yaron call Season 5's episodes 7 and 8 essential viewing for anyone who didn't live through October 7? The live Q&A covers evangelicals turning against Israel, whether October 7 was an invasion rather than a "terror attack," Batman versus Iron Man, Shane, European food, and Yaron's plan for Capitalism AI. Main discussion  0:00 Intro  3:15 Who the Fauda unit really is: Israelis who pass as Palestinians  11:44 Living two lives destroys you (with a nod to Eli Cohen)  15:00 War is not romantic: the real cost on both sides  16:10 Why the villains carry the show  19:02 Season 1: the hunt for The Panther  29:47 Season 2: ISIS in the West Bank, and Hamas as a "Fatah in the making"  34:17 Season 3: the "father of prisoners" and a prophetic mission into Gaza 38:53 Nobody wants Gaza, not Israel and not Egypt  42:48 Season 4: Hezbollah, Molenbeek, and fake Lebanese road trips 4 53:36 Season 5: a unit traumatized by October 7  1:04:00 Episodes 7 and 8: October 7 on screen  1:16:47 When the state protects evil, is vigilante justice right?  1:19:55 Yaron is pro-revenge: Israel's return to its old doctrine  1:21:25 Real heroes: the cast and crew who fought and died Live audience Q&A  1:26:51 Why October 7 is a turning point for the whole West  1:37:27 Why Middle East cafés are full and Chinese streets never stop  1:43:30 Would the West change its mind if it saw October 7?  1:46:36 How German leftists came to hate Israel  1:48:46 How Israel stops soldiers being kidnapped, and the truth about the Hannibal Directive  2:04:21 Did you fall for the killer's lie?  2:06:24 Are pro-Israel evangelicals turning antisemitic?  2:09:24 Are people too mindless for Objectivism?  2:18:23 Is the opposite of love hate, or indifference?  2:21:01 Does sad art get harder to take as you age?  2:23:02 Why Batman beats every other superhero  2:42:42 When Israel interrogated Yaron about Objectivism  2:51:06 Coming up: the Suez Crisis #Fauda #Israel #October7 #Netflix #Hamas #israelhamaswar #palestine #leftism #Capitalism #AynRand #Objectivism #FreeMarkets #IndividualRights #Socialism #Philosophy #NikosSotirakopoulos #TVReview  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. 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Live Oct 17, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show Answering Capitalism’s Critics #4: Smarter Every Day-The PROBLEM with Capitalism | Yaron Brook Show (Season 12, Episode 169) Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/wrEh206HAi4 If chasing profit makes products worse, why did a YouTube engineer just make money by building a better one? Smarter Every Day has 12 million subscribers. Its video "The Problem with Capitalism" has 2.9 million views. It is also wrong about how capitalism works, and Destin Sandlin's own business shows why. In episode #4 of Answering Capitalism's Critics, Yaron Brook goes through Destin's argument segment by segment. Yaron chairs the Ayn Rand Institute and has spent decades defending free markets. Destin says that "pushing capitalism to the max" and putting "profits over people" make every product worse over time. Yaron argues that Destin's chain-mail grill scrubber proves the opposite. Destin saw that the products on the shelf were dangerous, built a safer one, sold it at a premium, and made a profit. Yaron calls that an entrepreneur at work, and he says that is the force that makes markets deliver better products. Yaron takes apart Destin's whiteboard "profit pyramid." He tests it against Ferrari, Henry Ford's decision to double wages, and the huge pay packages AI companies offer top talent. He argues that share prices punish short-term exploitation because they are based on expected future profits. He answers Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" theory, the claim that dominant companies let their products decay once customers are locked in. He also argues that Destin's 100% Made-in-America rule made customers wait years and pay more to satisfy a moral feeling. Destin is a great engineer. He leaves engineering behind when he starts talking about economics. Subscribe for the full "Answering Capitalism's Critics" series, with a new takedown every week. Next up is the author of The Entrepreneurial State, who argues that government built the iPhone. ▶ Support the show on Patreon or PayPal. Main topics 01:20 Answering Capitalism's Critics #4: why Yaron chose Smarter Every Day 04:12 The chain-mail grill scrubber and the 100% American rule 14:50 Destin's thesis that "profits over people" ruins products 27:02 The "Profit Prioritization Perambulator" whiteboard 41:41 The "evil CEO" model leaves out the customer 49:28 Producing overseas often raises quality, as Japan, Ford Europe, and Apple show 55:47 Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" theory against Google, Apple, and AI 1:09:20 Destin's own business disproves his model 1:23:04 The altruism hidden inside "it's an ethical problem" 1:30:34 The Costa Rica knobs: familiarity bias and "exploitation" 1:34:06 Israel Kirzner: entrepreneurs are alert to profit no one else has noticed 1:37:50 Made in America sacrificed Destin's customers 1:45:25 Next critic: The Entrepreneurial State Live audience questions 1:48:24 Does capitalism need better storytellers? 1:49:41 Will Trump try to stay in office after 2028? 1:52:40 Flying cars, and will Europe ever accept air conditioning? 1:53:20 Is ugliness on the far left and far right a sign of inner hatred? 1:55:00 Has the free-market movement failed? 1:57:19 Is Destin a nationalist? 1:57:53 Does Destin even want to think? 2:00:12 Is Naomi Klein next? 2:00:23 What could go wrong in the midterms? 2:07:48 Was Destin missing economics, philosophy, or both? 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Mineral Rights: Who Should Own What’s Under the Ground? Australia Case Study | Yaron Brook Show (Season 12, Episode 168) Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/9f2XBrckRO8 Who owns the gas under Australia? Is it 28 million Australians? The Crown? Or the people who spent A$234 billion turning 100 million years of worthless pressure in a rock into cargo bound for Japan? Australia is one of the world's biggest exporters of natural gas, and Melbourne is still heading for a gas shortage. Yaron Brook argues that the East Coast never ran out of gas. It ran out of permission slips. In this episode, Yaron Brook takes on one of the oldest assumptions in politics: that what's under the ground belongs to "the nation." Australia's gas fight is the case study. The unions and Greens want a 25% tax on gas exports. The Labor government is passing a rule that forces producers to offer 20% of their exports to Australian buyers. Both proposals start from the same premise, "it's our gas." Yaron argues that premise is wrong. Ownership requires the ability to use, sell and exclude, and no Australian can do any of those things with "his share" of a gas field. A resource is a thing in the ground plus a mind that knows what to do with it. The people who supplied that mind, and the money and the risk, were Shell, Chevron, Woodside and the Japanese utilities whose 20-year contracts paid for the plants. The state's claim is a leftover from British kings. Don't miss the live Q&A with Ayn Rand vs. Phil Donahue on Middle Eastern oil and more! This is a sponsored episode. Want to pick a topic for the show? Sponsor an episode. 👉 Subscribe for weekly shows on freedom, rational self-interest and individual rights.  Main topics 00:50 Who should own what's under the ground? 03:53 Australia is the #3 LNG exporter in the world, yet faces a gas shortage by 2028 06:45 Two proposals: a 25% export tax vs. a 20% domestic reservation 08:30 The hidden premise: "It's Australia's gas" 14:46 How Japanese contracts & foreign capital built Western Australia's gas industry 19:46 WA's 15% rule, and why setting terms in advance matters 27:26 The gas under their feet: Victoria's constitutional fracking ban 29:37 "They didn't run out of gas. They ran out of permission slips." 29:58 Europe made the same mistake 34:32 Windfall profits and "economic rent": the case for the tax 36:33 A resource tax that raises less than beer tax 42:28 Who owns the gas? There's no such thing as collective ownership 43:05 Mineral rights came from kings. Why the US is the exception 46:02 A resource = a rock + a mind (Rand, Julian Simon, Alex Epstein) 48:11 A "fair return"?  49:16 12 million Americans get royalty checks, and that's why the US drills 53:40 Why Norway's 78% tax "works," and Australia's plan is its opposite 55:13 Why a revenue tax is especially destructive 57:25 Britain's windfall tax: investment went from $14B to $2B a year 1:00:26 Why the gas industry keeps losing 1:06:00 The strongest case for the 20% reservation 1:09:21 The "three companies control 90%" argument, answered 1:11:31 Twenty years of Western Australia's reservation: what it actually did 1:17:09 The Abundance Program: privatize the minerals 1:20:53 Abolish the rent tax, set a 12-month approval clock, go nuclear, build pipelines 1:25:23 Tax supporters: do you want the money or the gas? 1:27:14 This is coming to America Live Q&A 1:31:26 Is Trump buying stakes in companies the Australian model? 1:33:19 Is Australia a lost cause for liberty? 1:37:43 Mad Max: Australia's warning about oil shortages 1:43:12 Elon's flying car: real or hype? 1:46:13 Ayn Rand vs. Phil Donahue: whose oil was it? 1:48:53 Why do monarchies still exist? 1:50:14 Is immigration to blame for Australia's housing shortage? 1:52:18 Does Israel prove a country doesn't need immigrants? 1:54:43 Would a capitalist country allow a voluntary kibbutz? #MineralRights #PropertyRights #Australia #NaturalGas #LNG #oilreserve #naturalresource #Libertarian #Affordability #Capitalism #AynRand #EnergyPolicy #DrillBabyDrill the overview above is written by YaronAi  Like this episode Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio. 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Consequences; Affordability (Cochrane); Ukraine; War?; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show (Season 12, Episode 167) Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/WWE2CR74PfQ "Trump just broke his own economy — and 80% of Republicans now want the same price controls Mamdani does. Is there anyone left who still believes in free markets?" America just got its hottest inflation reading since the peak of the Biden years — and Yaron Brook names exactly who caused it: Trump's tariffs and his unfinished war with Iran.  In this episode, Brook tears into a shocking new WSJ poll showing 80%+ of Americans — Republicans included — now support socialist-style price controls on rent, credit cards, drugs, and wages. Using economist John Cochrane's "Grumpy Economist" analysis, Brook explains why "affordability" is a meaningless word, why price controls always produce shortages and black markets, and why the real enemy of capitalism isn't politicians — it's the idea that self-interest is immoral.  Then: Zelensky's blowup at Trump, Starshield sabotage, Saudi Arabia's $82 billion military that can't stop Houthi drones, the canceled execution livestream, and real human achievement in cancer drugs and battlefield tech. 🔔 Subscribe for daily, unfiltered analysis of economics, politics, and foreign policy — grounded in reason, individual rights, and capitalism. Main Topics 00:00 – Why Yaron is launching on Twitch, and the plan for a public "Capitalism AI" 15:27 – September PPI shock: the hottest inflation reading since Biden's peak 17:39 – This inflation is Trump's, not Biden's: tariffs plus an unwon Iran war 22:42 – AI stocks sell off as bond yields spike 25:46 – The Strait of Hormuz is still a warzone — oil shipping costs triple 29:06 – "Affordability" is a meaningless word — here's what's actually driving prices 30:40 – Shocking poll: 80%+ of Americans, Republicans included, want price controls 42:27 – John Cochrane's 12-point plan to actually lower prices (Yaron agrees with almost all of it) 52:53 – Why the free market is unpopular: people think self-interest is immoral 1:07:56 – Zelensky explodes at Trump; Starshield sabotage exposed 1:16:14 – Saudi Arabia spends $82 billion a year and still can't stop Houthi drones 1:21:22 – Trump cancels the public execution livestream — for the wrong reasons 1:26:09 – The jobs report nobody's talking about: 29,000 jobs, almost all in data centers 1:28:26 – Real achievements: a cancer drug that doubles survival, Ukraine's $7,000 drone killers, and a Silicon Valley legend's passing Audience Questions 1:38:23 – "A diabetic begged Congress to cap insulin prices — is he wrong to want it?" 1:41:26 – "Isn't 'my life' enough of a central purpose?" 1:46:02 – "If concept formation is learned, why isn't that proof we have free will?" 1:54:16 – "Would killing property taxes make housing even more expensive?" 1:56:33 – "Is Britain's Kemi Badenoch secretly an Ayn Rand fan?" 1:58:03 – "Shouldn't we also defend the drug maker's right to profit, not just attack the 'need' argument?" #Inflation #Tariffs #Economics #Ukraine #ForeignPolicy #Libertarian #Affordability #Inflation2026 #Deregulation #socialism #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #ForeignPolicy the overview above is written by YaronAi Like this episode Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio. 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Hasan Piker; Starlink/Ukraine; Inflation; Netanyahu; Banking; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show (Season 12, Episode 166) Does Yaron Brook think Hasan Piker — Twitch's biggest socialist, a man who openly praises Mao, Castro, and North Korea — is actually the most honest man on the American left? And if so, why can't a single Democratic moderate explain what's wrong with him? Hasan Piker streams eight hours a day to millions of viewers, pulls in seven figures doing it, and openly admires Mao, excuses North Korea's labor camps, and calls Zionists Nazis. According to a new Atlantic investigation by left-leaning writer Jonathan Chait, Piker isn't a fringe embarrassment to the Democratic Party — he's its most consistent expression. In this episode, Yaron Brook explains why moderate Democrats can't actually refute Piker: they've already conceded his core premise, that self-sacrifice for the collective is the standard of virtue. Once you grant that, Piker isn't an extremist. He's just honest. From there, Brook tears into a week's worth of stories that all come down to the same question — principle or expedience? Elon Musk throttles Starlink bandwidth to Ukrainian drones in the middle of a Russian blitz on the power grid, and Brook argues the real culprit isn't Musk, it's Trump — foreign policy run on mood instead of strategy. A hot CPI print quietly wipes out six months of real wage gains. Former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar sues Netanyahu over ignored October 7th warnings. Bank of America eats a $1.2 billion fine for a "crime" with no victim and no proof. And one state, Idaho, actually cuts its regulatory code instead of growing it — proof that deregulation isn't just a talking point. Reason over tribalism. Individual rights over collective guilt. That's the standard applied to everyone in this episode — a streamer, a president, a prime minister, and a bank regulator alike. 🔗 Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/BD899h4g3HY Main Topics 0:01 — Intro 2:21 — Hasan Piker goes mainstream: inside Jonathan Chait's Atlantic piece 43:46 — Why moderate Democrats have no answer for Piker 54:28 — Altruism's hierarchy of victims: how it leads straight to Mao and Castro 1:04:25 — Starlink throttled to Ukraine mid-blackout — whose call was it really? 1:12:06 — Hot CPI print erases six months of real wage growth 1:21:21 — Ronen Bar sues Netanyahu over October 7th warnings 1:27:15 — Bank of America's $1.2B fine: a crime with no victim 1:36:49 — Idaho's 49% regulatory cut: deregulation that actually happened Audience Q&A 1:47:46 — Is "here today, gone tomorrow" really a malevolent-universe premise in disguise? 1:49:26 — Is our education system manufacturing kids who can't survive in a meritocracy — and is that fueling the Nazi/communist comeback? 1:57:51 — Does all nihilistic behavior trace back to self-hatred? 2:01:39 — Why do Objectivists almost never talk about "central purpose" — and why does it matter so much? 2:07:23 — Should principled capitalists vote Republican just to push Democrats back to the middle by 2028? 2:12:06 — Would 90% tax rates actually force businesses to hire more people, like Sam Seder claims? 2:16:53 — AOC has an economics degree — so why is she this economically illiterate? 2:17:44 — Could the US end the Iranian regime with zero American casualties — so what's Trump actually afraid of? 2:20:04 — If government forced banks into bad loans, did failing banks deserve bailout money? #HasanPiker #Ukraine #Netanyahu #Inflation2026 #Deregulation #socialism  #communism #marxism #mao #china #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #ForeignPolicy  Like this episode Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio. 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Trump's FP; SA; China Debt Spiral; AI Panic; Omar Raid; CFTC; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show (Season 12, Episode 165) Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/8XZGFr8hY1M Why does Donald Trump only have one kind of friend in the world — dictators? In one single afternoon, Donald Trump blamed Ukraine for Russia's missiles, threatened the Houthis with action "after the election," and mused about meddling in Israel's vote — and Yaron Brook says none of it means anything, because Trump doesn't have a foreign policy, he has impulses.  On this episode of the Yaron Brook Show, Yaron tears into Trump's authoritarian-friendly instincts, breaks down a Saudi Arabian airport attack that shows Iran's reach is only growing, and lays out — number by number — why China is trapped in a debt spiral that should embarrass every politician on the left and right pushing "industrial policy."  Then: a Michigan Senate candidate's AI panic platform that would freeze American innovation cold, a politically-timed FBI raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's home, and a CFTC trade scandal with Trump's fingerprints potentially all over it — a six-million-barrel oil sell-off, fifteen minutes before Trump reversed an Iran strike plan, followed by an alleged cover-up at the agency that's supposed to police exactly this kind of thing.  Plus: Guyana's oil windfall—a nation of 800,000 people suddenly flush with more oil money per capita than almost anywhere on Earth, and a reminder of what resource wealth looks like when it's not run by a kleptocracy.  And through it all, Yaron makes the case for the achievements that still make this country work, even when its politics are broken. This is capitalism, foreign policy, and moral clarity, unfiltered — new episodes every week. Main Topics 00:00 — Cold open: does Trump have a foreign policy, or just instincts? 04:15 — Trump blames Ukraine, threatens the Houthis, and talks about meddling in Israel's election 12:40 — Saudi Arabia airport attack: Iran's reach isn't shrinking, it's spreading 21:05 — Inside China's debt spiral — the numbers both parties ignore 31:50 — A Michigan Senate candidate wants to freeze AI. Here's why that's a disaster. 40:20 — The FBI raid on Ilhan Omar's home — politics or justice? 48:00 — CFTC scandal: a six-million-barrel oil sell-off, 15 minutes before Trump reversed course on Iran 56:30 — Guyana's oil windfall — what resource wealth looks like without a kleptocracy 1:04:10 — Yaron on the achievements still worth defending Audience Questions 1:12:00 — Is Trump's instinct for dictators dangerous, or just realism? 1:16:45 — Can China collapse without taking the world economy down with it? 1:21:30 — Should AI really be regulated like a weapon? 1:26:10 — Is the Omar raid politically motivated, or is she actually guilty of something? 1:31:00 — Did Trump's inner circle profit from insider knowledge at the CFTC? 1:35:40 — What does a country do right when oil money doesn't get stolen? #TrumpForeignPolicy #IlhanOmar #CFTC #trumpadministration #chinadebt #artificialintelligence #zelinsky #putin #russiaukrainewar #IranWar #FreeMarkets #capitalismvssocialism #Individualism #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand  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.