Live from Sydney, Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos join me on stage to discuss capitalism, liberty, personhood, energy policy, Israel and antisemitism and much more. Rough timestamps are here:

00:00 Brett’s welcome and introduction

02:32 Nikos on “What is Capitalism?”

04:21 Yaron on “What is Capitalism?”

07:33 Brett on the relationship between personhood and capitalism.

10:02 Nikos on why progress is not inevitable.

12:06 Yaron on humans vs other animals

15:14 Yaron on why capitalism is retreating in the West.

19:56 Brett on the self similarity of the mind

25:40: Yaron on Israel and her allies

32:33 Brett on protectionism and nationalism

33:17 Nikos on defending your allies and nihilism.

37:01 Yaron on faith, collectivism and nationalism.

42:13 Brett on “concentrated losses, dispersed gains”.

43:50 Yaron on free trade and tarrifs

49:52: Yaron’s iPhone

54:52 Brett invokes Deutsch’s pattern, anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism.

56:01 Nikos on Marx’s role as an antisemitic anticapitalist and “secondhandedness”.

1:02:21 Brett on environmentalism and anti humanism

1:05:22 Nikos on energy policy

1:07:25 Yaron on saving the planet.

1:11:21 Brett on the death trap that is planet Earth

1:13:15 Question 1: What is an Objectivist foreign policy?

1:18:21 Question 2: Is democracy necessary for protecting individual human rights?

1:25:31 Question 3: What explains the anti-ANZAC phenomenon in Australia?

1:30:01 Question 4: Should the government protect individual property rights? Remarks on “the minimum wage”.

1:32:53 Question 5: Should we be pessimistic about “woke”, “DEI” and the state of universities?

1:41:33 Question 6: Has China managed to achieve a beneficial separation of their political and economic systems?

1:47:02 Question 7: What is the role of the Fed in the USA? Is it necessary?

Ep 227: "What is Capitalism?" - an encounter between Objectivism and Critical Rationalism.

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