In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo give a preview of ARI’s 2024 presidential election coverage and comment on some of the major political issues at stake in the election.
Among the topics covered:
How ARI uses Objectivism to analyze elections and the wider political culture;
What the Trump phenomenon says about the state of our political culture;
The unprincipled nature of the political responses to recent domestic and foreign crises;
Symptoms of growing political tribalism, such as people’s increasing willingness to protest;
How bipartisan attacks on tech companies reveal a deeper turn against producers.
Mentioned in this podcast is Onkar Ghate’s New Ideal article “One Small Step for Dictatorship.”
The podcast was recorded on April 11, 2024.
