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michael shermer: Your support of the podcast through the sponsors andrium is how we survive. My guest to day is jaron brooke, who is an israeli american antrpaner, riter and activist. He's an objectivist and the current chairman of the board at the inran institute. We talk about wars, why conservatives are no longer interested in small government a course? And what about the welfare state? Don't we have a moral obligation to help people that are mentally ill,. say homeless and so forth?

Michael Shermer speaks with entrepreneur, writer, and activist Yaron Brook about Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Objectivism; individualism vs. collectivism; the nature of human nature; altruism, cooperation, reparations, and charity; the starting point of morality and the foundation of ethics; collective action problems and how they are best solved; our moral obligation to help those who cannot help themselves; the Is-Ought problem of determining right and wrong; reason and empiricism; immigration, abortion, foreign wars, the welfare state, and terrorism.