"I don't think you can have capitalism and anarchy. Anarchy is a state of chaos in which markets don't arise," he says. "It needs a state, but a estate that is focused on one thing and one thing only." He would like to see four fundamental separations in the constitution: separation of church and state, education, economic policy; science should be left up to private individuals.
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.