The Right Wants to Control Business

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The idea that conservatives resent people who want their kids to grow up unto freedom is the travesty, in my view. I think both political parties now have abandoned all pretence of advocating for freedom. The left typically has left our bedrooms open free and wanted to control our boardrooms. But that's not true any more. And the more of the left either wants to control our speech. They want almost to force us into relationship we don't wanna have.

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.