In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate discuss the controversy surrounding ARI’s acceptance of a Paycheck Protection Program loan. ARI previously announced it was seeking PPP relief and. . .
Paul TaskeIt’s Past Time for a Pandemic Testing Strategy
Months of statewide lockdowns across the country were meant in part to buy time to ramp up testing and contact tracing with regard to the spread of Covid-19. Now — amid an upsurge of cases in Florida, Texas, Arizona. . .
Onkar Ghate
Elan JournoAyn Rand’s Philosophic Achievement (Part 2)
Part 1 of this essay is available here. If there is one point on which all philosophic schools of the last two hundred years agree, it is that no rational foundation for morality is possible. Limiting reason to. . .
Harry Binswanger
The EditorsA Drama for Our Time: Ibsen’s Enemy of the People
Many have now heard the story of Li Wenliang, the Chinese doctor who first sounded the alarm about the spread of the coronavirus in Wuhan, but who was forced to recant by Chinese authorities. He later died of the. . .
Ben Bayer
The Tribal Mentality Behind Hit Pieces on Ayn Rand
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Keith Lockitch discuss Journo’s recent article “When Tribal Journalists Try to ‘Cancel’ Ayn Rand.” Journo analyzes two articles (one from Salon, one from the New. . .
Agustina Vergara CidAyn Rand’s Philosophic Achievement (Part 1)
Shortly after Ayn Rand’s death in March 1982, Harry Binswanger undertook the task of highlighting the historical significance of Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism. He did so by singling out six landmarks in her thought —. . .
Discussing the New Laws Needed to Combat a Pandemic
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer interviews Onkar Ghate, ARI’s chief philosophy officer, and Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert, to discuss Ghate’s recent paper “A Pro-Freedom Approach to. . .
The Guidance We Need to Follow the Coronavirus Science
Governments are now lifting various national and statewide “shelter in place” orders. They’ve done so, reassuring their audiences that their decisions will “follow the science.” It’s a respectable-sounding slogan. . .
