Highlights from the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference

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The 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference, held in Boston, Massachusetts, wrapped up two weeks ago, and now you can get a taste of the wide range of topics and speakers featured at the event in a new highlights video.

The compilation includes clips from the following talks:

• “What is Western Civilization?” by Yaron Brook;
• “Revolutionary Constitutionalism” by C. Bradley Thompson;
• “Enlightenment on Trial: The Real Lessons of the American and French Revolutions” by Don Watkins;
• “Saving the Enlightenment” by Onkar Ghate;
• “The Road to Fascism (And Are We on It?)” by Nikos Sotirakopoulos;
• “Immigration Enforcement and the Betrayal of Due Process” by Agustina Vergara Cid;
• “Principles of a Proper Foreign Policy” by Peter Schwartz;
• “America Should Declare Independence from Altruism” by Ben Bayer;
• “Conceiving Values” by Greg Salmieri.

In addition, we have published two full-length lectures from the conference: Tal Tsfany’s annual address to ARI supporters, covering the Institute’s progress over the past year and its plans for the future; and Ben Bayer’s Independence Day talk, “America Should Declare Independence from Altruism.”