Micheal: You going to be in grand rapids in in south dakota? Oh, yes. I'll see you there. That'll be fond. Thanksfor so much for coming on and enlightening us on objectivism and inrand and atlas shrugged and so forth. So we'll cover that another episode.
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.