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Huang/Nvidia; Prop 37; Groyper plan; Iran; Impeach?; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show📺 Season 12, Episode 178 | Streamed live November 9, 2026 ▶️ Watch: https://youtube.com/live/1uYhYnMz8k0Is the rise of AI …
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Huang/Nvidia; Prop 37; Groyper plan; Iran; Impeach?; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
📺 Season 12, Episode 178 | Streamed live November 9, 2026
▶️ Watch: https://youtube.com/live/1uYhYnMz8k0
Is the rise of AI powerhouse Nvidia a triumph of free-market capitalism or a target for big-government overreach?
In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, Objectivist philosopher and author Yaron Brook cuts through the political noise to dissect the biggest headlines shaping our culture, economy, and geopolitical future. From Jensen Huang’s tech empire and the economic fallout of Proposition 37 to the alt-right "Groyper" political strategy, Iran's escalating threat, and the constitutional debates surrounding impeachment, Yaron delivers an unyielding, principled analysis grounded in individual liberty and reason.
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Time Stamps:
00:00 - Intro & Episode Overview
02:15 - Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the AI Tech Revolution
14:30 - Breaking Down Proposition 37: Economic Consequences
26:45 - Exposing the "Groyper" Strategy and Alt-Right Ideology
39:10 - Iran Geopolitics: Foreign Policy and National Defense
51:00 - Impeachment Debates: Constitutional Limits vs. Political Theater
1:04:20 - Celebrating Rational Achievements in a Free Society
1:15:30 - Live Q&A: Should AI companies be regulated under antitrust laws?
1:23:45 - Live Q&A: How do we counter the alt-right's influence on young men?
1:31:10 - Live Q&A: Is foreign intervention ever justified under Objectivism?
1:40:00 - Live Q&A: What is the single greatest achievement of modern capitalism?
1:48:15 - Final Thoughts & Episode Wrap-Up
#JensenHuang #Nvidia #Prop37 #Groyper #Iran #Impeachment #nickfuentes #Trump #china #huanglei #ArtificialIntelligence #Iran #Israel #bolssonaro #ForeignPolicy #socialism #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand
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Onkar Ghate on The Meaning & Significance of the Midterm Blue Tsunami | Yaron Brook Show📺 Season 12, Episode 177 | Streamed live November 9, 2026 ▶️ Watch: https://youtube.com/live/88hrsAwSn8oThe GOP deserved …
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Onkar Ghate on The Meaning & Significance of the Midterm Blue Tsunami | Yaron Brook Show
📺 Season 12, Episode 177 | Streamed live November 9, 2026
▶️ Watch: https://youtube.com/live/88hrsAwSn8o
The GOP deserved to lose, and to lose big. But did the Democrats do anything to deserve the win?
Republicans got crushed in the 2026 midterms. Yaron Brook and Onkar Ghate argue the GOP earned every loss and the Democrats earned none of the win. 🌊
Yaron and Onkar Ghate of the Ayn Rand Institute make the case that voters rejected Trump without voting for anything. They look at who will fight over the parties next. Nick Fuentes's groypers want the GOP, and the DSA wants the Democrats. They also cover how Social Security and Medicare turned young voters against old ones, how tariffs cost Republicans Michigan, and how abortion helped flip Texas. Their biggest point is that neither party has a serious plan for the economy.
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⏱️ Main Topics
0:00 Onkar Ghate joins the show
0:29 The GOP deserved to lose, and Democrats didn't deserve to win
3:38 Fuentes wants the GOP
9:26 Is it groypers vs. the DSA?
13:34 Are Mamdani's socialists the new Democratic Party?
18:25 The welfare state turns young against old
28:10 Trump softens on immigration, then picks Stephen Miller
32:55 Neither party has an economic plan
36:29 Trump drove the best people out of the GOP
🎤 Live Q&A
39:36 Is voting for the lesser evil moral?
45:36 Texas's abortion revolt
49:55 Did Ayn Rand make the West richer?
55:41 Will Democrats strangle AI?
57:44 Will the GOP follow Fuentes off a cliff?
1:05:07 Is a fascist dark age coming?
1:08:32 What's an anti-concept?
1:12:03 Why Yaron would run for president
1:19:35 Does Trump care that he lost?
1:20:55 Would you vote for Ben Shapiro?
1:24:58 Did Trump create the DSA?
1:26:48 How do ideas move history?
#OnkarGhate #Midterms2026 #BlueWave #RepublicanParty #Trump #democraticparty #aynrand #IndividualRights #InstituteForJustice #FreeSpeech #capitalism #Objectivism
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The Suez Crisis & the New Middle East | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues| Episode 18 | Streamed live on November 8, 2026Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/YWC65L85GXQWhat if the Middle East's 70 years of chaos began …
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The Suez Crisis & the New Middle East | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
| Episode 18 | Streamed live on November 8, 2026
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What if the Middle East's 70 years of chaos began the week America helped a dictator beat its own allies?
In 1956, Britain, France, and Israel crushed Egypt's army in a matter of days. Then Eisenhower made them give it all back. Nasser had been ordering suicide pills for his own leadership, and he walked away the hero of the Arab world. Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos show how the Suez Crisis created the Middle East we are still fighting today, from Nasser's Soviet alliance to Iran's grip on the Strait of Hormuz.
In this episode, Yaron and Nikos cover the full story. Ferdinand de Lesseps builds the canal with French engineering and French capital. Disraeli buys a British stake with money borrowed from the Rothschilds. In a two-and-a-half-hour radio speech, Nasser repeats "de Lesseps" again and again because the name is the signal for his troops to seize the canal. Britain, France, and Israel then meet in secret at Sèvres and plan a war. Ariel Sharon fights at the Mitla Pass, and Israel takes Gaza and all of Sinai. Then Washington lines up with Moscow at the UN, refuses Britain emergency money, and ends Anthony Eden's career.
Yaron makes the moral case that no history podcast will make. Nationalization is always theft. A dictator has no real sovereignty. Eisenhower's pragmatism gave Egypt to the Soviets, set off a wave of oil nationalizations across the Arab world, and taught Khrushchev that a hint of nuclear war makes the West back down. The parallels to today are unmistakable. Britain gave three different reasons for its war in a single day. Washington did the same with Iran.
In the live Q&A, Yaron and Nikos take on MAGA antisemitism after the midterms and Nick Fuentes's push to take over the GOP. They also cover Mamdani, Clinton's comeback after 1994, why the right lost educated voters, AI and data centers, and the one rule every Objectivist should follow at a debate.
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Main Topics
0:00 Intro
4:10 Debate preview
8:35 Building the Suez Canal
11:40 Disraeli buys a stake
22:45 Enter Nasser
28:15 The Aswan Dam
34:55 Nasser seizes the canal
40:15 Ike sides with Nasser
41:35 Nationalization is theft
49:10 Dictators have no sovereignty
51:53 Israel's case for war
56:05 The secret plot at Sèvres
1:02:25 Israel takes Sinai
1:14:45 Moscow threatens nukes
1:17:25 Britain caves
1:22:30 Nasser wins the politics
1:26:45 Oil nationalizations spread
1:29:09 A superpower afraid to act
Live Q&A
1:35:22 How do you handle a hostile audience?
1:36:44 Will MAGA blame the Jews?
1:42:25 Why are Pool and Yarvin praising Fuentes?
1:45:47 What's the one debate rule for Objectivists?
1:53:45 Why did America need Middle East oil?
1:58:56 Can Fuentes take over the GOP?
2:05:00 Is Iran winning?
2:07:20 Why does Trump like Mamdani?
2:09:30 Is this Trump's 1994?
2:16:05 How did the right lose educated voters?
2:24:50 Why do Levin and Shapiro sound weak?
2:32:50 Will states ban data centers?
2:34:22 Did universities push young men right?
2:38:35 Should Trump be impeached?
2:39:33 Who is the working class now?
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Midterm Elections -- Analysis & What Now?; More | Yaron Brook Show📺 Season 12, Episode 176 | Streamed live November 6, 2026 ▶️ Watch: https://youtube.com/live/xcmAikfNVswRepublicans just lost Senate seats in …
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Midterm Elections -- Analysis & What Now?; More | Yaron Brook Show
📺 Season 12, Episode 176 | Streamed live November 6, 2026
▶️ Watch: https://youtube.com/live/xcmAikfNVsw
Republicans just lost Senate seats in Texas, Ohio, and Kansas. JD Vance says the Iran war did it. What if the real culprit was the man at the top of the party all along?
Republicans just suffered their worst midterm wipeout in decades, and Donald Trump is calling it a "GREAT EVENING." Republicans lost Senate seats in Texas, Ohio, Kansas, Iowa, and both Carolinas. Even Mississippi was too close to call days later. Democrats flipped about 42 House seats. Texas fired Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton. JD Vance says one thing caused all of it: "The reason we lost is the war. That's it." Yaron Brook says Vance is evading reality.
Streaming live from Mexico City, Yaron goes through the right's competing explanations for the loss. One camp blames the war. One blames Trump. One says the New Right failed. Bannon and Fuentes blame the Jews. He then tests each claim against the exit polls. Only 4% of voters named foreign policy as an important factor. 65% said Trump's policies made the economy worse. Yaron points to tariffs, cost of living, corruption, Trump-picked candidates, cruel ICE crackdowns, and Texas's harsh abortion regime.
The Yaron Brook Show defends reason, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, drawing on Ayn Rand's philosophy. Yaron is chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute.
MAIN TOPICS
0:20 Intro
0:41 Live from Mexico City: Yaron makes the moral case for capitalism to Mexico's influencers
4:04 On the road: Michigan, Hillsdale, a SF debate vs. anti-capitalist Catholics, Ecuador
9:56 The midterm results are a historic GOP wipeout
17:21 Trump calls it a "GREAT EVENING" and says he wasn't on the ballot
21:06 Texas voters fired Abbott and Paxton despite a booming economy
23:21 ICE raids drove Texas Hispanics away from the GOP
26:28 Texas's cruel abortion regime cost Republicans votes
28:32 Camp 1 says "it's the war," led by JD Vance and Tucker Carlson
35:14 Camp 2 says it's Trump, and Ben Shapiro finally agrees
41:43 Camp 3 says the New Right failed on its own terms
42:46 Camp 4 is Bannon and Fuentes blaming the Jews
51:10 California's Prop 40 billionaire tax looks set to fail
53:36 Tax measures had mixed results in Washington, Florida, Tennessee, and North Carolina
55:08 Ballot measures on abortion, data centers, sports, and school prayer
58:28 El-Sayed becomes the first DSA senator to the chant of "Free Palestine"
1:01:23 The Democrats now face a civil war of their own
1:02:36 AI stocks fall as voters turn against data centers
1:03:47 Divided government under Trump means more spending, not less
1:05:22 Oil falls 15% as markets bet on an Iran deal
1:06:21 Hegseth faces impeachment and could be the war's sacrificial lamb
1:08:31 Newsom clears California's death row
1:09:53 The new Southern Democrats support abortion rights
LIVE Q&A
1:13:44 Will Republicans make Iran the scapegoat for everything?
1:16:35 Should the US end aid to Israel?
1:20:25 Is Milei losing Argentina?
1:21:55 Was Tuesday a "no" to Trump or a "yes" to Democrats?
1:24:42 Should Australia still buy US nuclear subs under AUKUS?
1:27:16 Does this vote send a message to the global far right?
1:30:11 Is calling it "Israel's war" a form of 9/11 denialism?
1:32:08 What happens to Texas abortion law now?
#Midterms2026 #ElectionNight #Trump #Republicans #Democrats #DSA #israel JDVance #TexasPolitics #Tariffs #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand
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Midterm Elections Live -- From Rio de Janeiro | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 175)Streamed live on November 3, 2026Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/KO6lbnZGh58What if the biggest winner of the 2026 …
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Midterm Elections Live -- From Rio de Janeiro | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 175)
Streamed live on November 3, 2026
Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/KO6lbnZGh58
What if the biggest winner of the 2026 midterms is the Democratic Socialists of America, and the man who handed it to them is Donald Trump?
Yaron Brook wanted Republicans to lose this election, and to lose badly. Live from Rio de Janeiro on election night, he explains why the 2026 midterms rejected Donald Trump and gave the socialist left no mandate at all. He also explains why Trump voters, and not their critics, own what comes next.
Democrats took both Carolinas. Jon Ossoff's Georgia race was called within minutes of the polls closing. Texas, Kansas, Ohio and Iowa all leaned blue as the night went on. Florida's Republican redistricting backfired. Yaron's explanation is blunt. Tariffs pushed prices up. A war in Iran was started and never won. Trump's government now owns stakes in 41 private American companies. Seven in ten voters said Congress has failed to check the president, and they're right.
Then the live audience gets its turn as Yaron takes on Objectivists versus libertarians, socialism's record around the world, and more.
Yaron Brook defends reason, individual rights, and laissez-faire capitalism against both the populist right and the socialist left.
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MAIN TOPICS
0:00 Intro
1:06 Live from Rio on midterm night
2:36 Why Yaron wants Republicans crushed, not just beaten
4:13 Trump owns stakes in 41 companies, so who's the socialist?
6:38 The worst outcome would be a night with no clear verdict
7:18 Georgia gets called in minutes, and Ossoff looks like a 2028 contender
9:25 Tariffs, an unwon war and inflation are why voters are furious
11:51 This was Trump vs. America, and it's no mandate for the DSA
14:37 Florida's gerrymander backfires
17:30 Senate races to watch: Michigan, Maine, Kansas, Texas
19:46 Republicans deserve to lose, even if Democrats don't deserve to win
27:57 The dirty "two Dan Sullivans" trick in Alaska
29:42 Vivek's disgusting ad sinks him in Ohio
32:08 Exit polls show voters angry about corruption and a Congress that won't check Trump
35:49 Roy Cooper flips North Carolina
37:34 No ICE at the polls, and Trump's election challenges look weak
43:28 The GOP purged Liz Cheney, and now both parties are statist
50:05 Greg Abbott should lose Texas
LIVE AUDIENCE Q&A
58:18 Will Democrats rein in ICE?
1:02:29 Why the GOP will blame the war instead of tariffs
1:09:45 Who's the bigger socialist, Mamdani or Trump?
1:12:41 Is Kant just Plato updated?
1:17:15 Is reason infallible?
1:27:32 Is libertarianism Kant plus Rand?
1:38:50 Yaron's new courses
1:44:56 Does envy come from "I could never do that"?
1:46:16 Does Finland prove teachers unions work?
1:48:57 Can cities recover from socialism?
2:06:15 If the state took your home, would you fight?
2:07:01 Can Milei make Argentina an AI hub?
2:09:42 What happens to the Iran war now?
2:11:16 How did Netanyahu do?
2:14:01 Does religion stop racism?
2:16:26 Did the dot-com crash prove capitalism failed?
2:20:16 Is Singapore's public housing a socialist success?
2:21:01 Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini?
2:21:35 Did America sabotage socialism in Burkina Faso?
2:23:40 Is AI a nuclear threat?
2:24:55 Are Objectivists too harsh on libertarians?
2:26:35 Is Florida's property tax repeal a big win?
2:28:12 Can Democrats impeach and remove Trump?
2:29:40 Will Democrats shut down AI data centers?
2:37:10 Why is the far left obsessed with Israel?
2:48:45 Can you teach ambition?
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Hoppe: The Libertarian God that Failed | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 17)Streamed live on October 28, 2026Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/nPdwprAS0j4What happens when a famous …
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Hoppe: The Libertarian God that Failed | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 17)
Streamed live on October 28, 2026
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What happens when a famous "libertarian" decides that kings are better than voters, and that some of your neighbors should be "physically removed"?
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is the heir to Murray Rothbard and a hero to anarcho-capitalists and the new right. He called it "the so-called Holocaust" on stage. He argues that kings protected liberty better than democracy. In his ideal "covenant," people with the wrong lifestyles get "physically removed." Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos explain why Hoppe is the libertarian god that failed.
Yaron and Nikos play the clip of Hoppe comparing Gaza to "the so-called Holocaust." Then they trace how he got there. Hoppe's famous "argumentation ethics" claims that the act of arguing with someone proves property rights. Yaron calls it rationalism, meaning word games cut off from reality. Rights have to start from the nature of man. Human life depends on the mind, and force is the enemy of the mind.
Next comes Democracy: The God That Failed. Hoppe says a king cares for his country the way an owner cares for his house. Yaron answers with real history, from royal palaces surrounded by poverty to Henry VIII's bloodshed.
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what made Rothbard so hateful
whether fossil-fuel money hurts Alex Epstein's credibility
Israel's election and its Arab parties
why "conflict of interest" has become a weapon against the profit motive
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Main Topics:
00:00 Introduction and announcements
05:48 Critique of Hans-Hermann Hoppe
12:02 Hoppe and historical revisionism
18:56 Argumentation ethics analysis
28:37 Rationalism vs. reality
38:47 Democracy and monarchy
51:58 The physical removal meme
1:03:42 Individualism and covenants
1:13:54 Alt-right and foreign policy
1:25:54 Morality in state conflicts
Audience Q&A
1:38:42 Why do libertarians tune out when you bring up morality?
1:45:46 Did Native Americans own the whole continent?
1:48:12 Can a contract force you to sell your shares if you change your beliefs?
1:49:25 What would Hoppe's "covenant" even mean under anarchy?
1:50:40 What's the best Christian Bale movie?
1:53:44 Should Arab parties sit in Israel's government?
2:00:17 Rothbard was a great economist, so why was he so hateful?
2:04:01 What's the best Richard Gere movie?
2:06:42 Is Hoppe's argument the best non-Objectivist case against force?
2:07:09 Habermas and critical theory: who gets the blame for Hoppe?
2:08:12 Does fossil-fuel money hurt Alex Epstein's credibility?
2:10:07 Is Spain's train crash a sign of Atlas shrugging?
2:12:22 Why are "hedonists" a threat to Hoppe's libertarian order?
2:13:20 Do corporations have personhood?
2:16:09 Should copyright last 90 years? The "Disney law"
2:17:23 Does force cut the mind off from survival?
2:17:41 Is "conflict of interest" just a smear?
#HansHermannHoppe #Libertarianism #AnarchoCapitalism #Rothbard #anarchy #Capitalism #AynRand #Objectivism #FreeMarkets #IndividualRights #Socialism #Philosophy #NikosSotirakopoulos #TVReview
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Israel Votes; Brazil Voted; Anthropic; Starlink: Cuba; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 174)Streamed live on October 27, 2026Why would a government give people up to five years in prison for …
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Israel Votes; Brazil Voted; Anthropic; Starlink: Cuba; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 174)
Streamed live on October 27, 2026
Why would a government give people up to five years in prison for selling a satellite dish?
Cuba is jailing people for selling Starlink antennas. Brazil just gave an 80-year-old socialist a fourth term. Israel went to the polls in a vote that is really a referendum on one man.
Yaron Brook sorts out what it all means. In Israel, Yaron has argued that Benjamin Netanyahu himself is the only thing blocking a secular, center-right government without the ultra-Orthodox parties or Ben-Gvir. In Brazil, Lula da Silva came back to win 51.8% to 48.2%. He is the first president since 1985 to win after losing the first round, and Flávio Bolsonaro still refuses to concede.
Anthropic's IPO filing shows $16.3 billion in revenue and an $80.7 billion loss over six months. The filing also warns that AI could pose "existential risks," while the Pentagon brands the company a "supply chain risk." The episode covers Starlink, Cuba, and why a communist regime fears an internet connection more than a protest. It ends with this week's human achievements.
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Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction & Welcome
05:15 - Israel Votes: Political Crossroads & Regional Shifts
22:40 - Brazil Voted: Free Markets vs. Statism
45:10 - Anthropic & AI Safety Guardrails
1:08:35 - Starlink in Cuba: Breaking Information Monopolies
1:30:20 - Celebrating Human Achievement Against All Odds
1:51:10 - Q&A: Can Israel survive without compromising individual rights?
2:03:45 - Q&A: Is voting enough to stop a slide into authoritarianism?
2:18:20 - Q&A: Does corporate AI censorship pose a bigger threat than state regulation?
2:30:05 - Q&A: Can satellite internet permanently dismantle dictator firewalls?
2:45:30 - Q&A: Why do modern intellectuals hate human achievement—and how do we fight back?
#IsraelElection #Netanyahu #BrazilElection #Lula #Anthropic #ArtificialIntelligence #Starlink #Cuba #Musk #bolssonaro #ForeignPolicy #socialism #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand
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Elections: Brazil, Israel, USA; France Riots; Starlink | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 173)Streamed live on October 25, 2026Can you save a country from socialism when the only other candidate isn't a …
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Elections: Brazil, Israel, USA; France Riots; Starlink | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 173)
Streamed live on October 25, 2026
Can you save a country from socialism when the only other candidate isn't a capitalist?
Brazil's 80-year-old socialist just won a fourth term. Yaron Brook was in Porto Alegre on election day, making the case against Lula da Silva. He explained why Flávio Bolsonaro was still the right vote, even though "he's no Milei."
Israel votes Tuesday, and Yaron points to the one thing blocking a secular, center-right government. That obstacle is Benjamin Netanyahu himself. Also in this episode: France's riots show that tough policing works, the Starlink slowdown over Ukraine leaves Musk and Trump blaming each other, and the US midterms could turn into a mess.
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Timestamps
0:00 Live from Porto Alegre, Brazil
1:20 The $100,000 Atlas Shrugged essay contest
3:10 Taking the case for capitalism across Latin America
7:25 How Brazil got here: "Less Marx, More Mises" to Lula's arrest
19:20 Lula vs. Flávio Bolsonaro in the runoff
22:10 Why Flávio Bolsonaro is no Milei
30:50 Crime and a rogue Supreme Court: the case against Lula
32:25 The Brazilian left has no bench
34:10 Serbia votes against an authoritarian
36:00 Israel's election is a vote on Netanyahu
52:40 The 62-seat coalition only Netanyahu blocks
57:50 West Bank settler violence must be stopped
59:35 Nvidia is 2% of Israel's GDP
1:01:25 US midterms and Trump's Alaska lawsuit
1:03:20 France riots: 70,000 police change everything
1:08:40 Starlink throttles Ukraine as Musk and Trump trade blame
1:15:20 Iran plots attacks on US diplomats
1:17:30 British Columbia elects conservatives for the first time in 98 years
1:18:35 A new drug cuts lung cancer deaths by 58%
Live Q&A
1:20:40 Does Starlink need a real competitor?
1:21:35 If good feelings are the goal, why not do cocaine?
1:26:05 Would socialized medicine in America hurt the whole world?
1:28:00 Is Europe's decline real or hype?
1:31:05 Does Objectivism want to break up the family?
1:32:30 Is Putin behind Europe's riots?
1:33:25 Why do rich CEOs beg to be taxed more?
1:34:35 Why do some people lie as a way of life?
1:35:15 What if Aristotle had never answered Plato?
1:35:50 Why are young people falling for Marxism and antisemitism?
1:37:45 Did Ayn Rand delay the West's collapse?
1:38:40 Will the next generation be better?
1:40:05 Is tribalism making everyone angrier?
1:41:55 Would Trump use force if he loses Congress?
1:43:45 Does "Democrats are the party of Jim Crow" make sense?
1:45:55 Why is the US Navy in the North Sea?
1:47:50 Does France prove democracy fails?
1:49:40 Should Musk be sent to The Hague?
1:50:25 Should private prisons exist?
1:53:10 Why is "affordability" an anti-concept?
#BrazilElection #IsraelElection #Lula #Netanyahu #Starlink #ElonMusk #FranceRiots #Midterms2026 #Cronyism #ForeignPolicy #socialism #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand
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French Apologists; Ukraine; Gulf; Cronyism; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 172)📺 Watch: https://youtube.com/live/-uOJ6nzNfiM A Congo-born immigrant grew up in a 10-square-meter apartment and …
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French Apologists; Ukraine; Gulf; Cronyism; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 172)
📺 Watch: https://youtube.com/live/-uOJ6nzNfiM
A Congo-born immigrant grew up in a 10-square-meter apartment and built a company with 110 employees. A 22-year-old activist from an upper-middle-class family sneers at her looted storefront: "Your little shops, that's cute." Which of these two women is really French, and which one is destroying France?
"Your little shops, that's cute." With that one line, a far-left French influencer showed what's really behind France's riots. Yaron Brook argues the fight in France has nothing to do with immigrants versus natives. It's a fight between the people who produce and the people who justify looting them.
In this episode, Yaron looks at the French intellectuals who make the riots possible. One sociologist says private property "doesn't matter." She calls a threat to rape a young mother "collateral damage." Far-left LFI politicians say violence "can be legitimate." Yaron explains why this revolutionary left won't win, and why it will push voters toward Le Pen's nationalist, big-government right instead.
He also covers the Pentagon holding back Patriot interceptors that Ukraine already paid for. Britain is now defending Saudi Arabia after Washington said no. Yaron calls out an $8 billion farm bailout meant to cover damage from Trump's own tariffs and war, and the Defense Production Act being used for a pipeline. He closes with a hopeful story. Japan has launched a mission to bring back a piece of a Martian moon. And millennials now earn more than their parents did at the same age in 29 of 32 rich countries, including the US.
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Timestamps
00:20 France riots: 3,000 shops looted
04:48 "Your little shops, that's cute"
09:08 Producers vs. looters, not immigrants vs. natives
13:23 French intellectuals excuse looting and rape threats
23:23 How the radical left helps Le Pen
31:02 Ukraine: the Pentagon holds back Patriots Kyiv paid for
39:06 Gulf: Britain defends Saudi Arabia after the US says no
46:12 Cronyism: an $8B farm bailout and a DPA pipeline
48:17 Tariffs, Alberta, Milan, and home distilling
56:01 Nvidia chips for China and an AI-powered hack
58:26 Achievement: Japan heads for Mars's moon Phobos
1:02:57 Millennials out-earn their parents
Live audience questions
1:18:04 Why do people hate self-interest?
1:20:44 Why don't economists understand capitalism?
1:24:34 Can Yaron forgive the Celtics for the Jaylen Brown trade?
1:25:12 What makes Zeffirelli's La Bohème great?
1:27:06 Should Zelensky apologize to South Korea?
1:31:04 Could anime and movies spread these ideas?
#FranceRiots #Cronyism #Millennials #france #nihilism #Economics #Ukraine #ForeignPolicy #socialism #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand
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We The Living Movie, Australian Premiere -- Conversation With Duncan Scott | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 171)Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/b-dYmWFMf2cMussolini banned this movie. Goebbels demanded …
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We The Living Movie, Australian Premiere -- Conversation With Duncan Scott | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 171)
Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/b-dYmWFMf2c
Mussolini banned this movie. Goebbels demanded it be pulled. Eighty-four years later, major distributors still won't touch it. Why does Ayn Rand's We the Living still scare people?
Mussolini ordered every copy destroyed. Its producers hid the negatives in a basement and sent a different film to be burned in its place. Ayn Rand then refused to let anyone see it for decades. This is the incredible true story of We the Living.
Yaron Brook calls it the best movie ever made from an Ayn Rand novel. In this episode he talks with four-time Emmy winner Duncan Scott, who sat alone with Ayn Rand in a dark editing room and re-cut the film reel by reel to her exact instructions.
Fascist Italy took Rand's first novel in 1942 without her knowledge. Officials expected anti-Soviet propaganda. Instead, Italians saw their own lives on screen, with the shortages, the fear, and the missing freedom. The film became Italy's #1 box-office hit, and then it vanished. One of its stars joined the anti-fascist underground and hid American soldiers in Rome. Lawyers Hank and Erika Holzer spent two years hunting through Italy for the lost negatives. Now the film has been digitally restored, frame by frame, and it is touring the world, including a screening in Kyiv during an air raid.
The restored film is coming to Australia for the first time, with premieres in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane in February and March 2027. Duncan Scott will be there in person. Yaron and Duncan explain why a 1942 film about three young people crushed by a dictatorship speaks to today more loudly than ever.
About Duncan Scott: Duncan Scott is a film and television director and producer. He has more than 150 productions to his credit and four Emmy® Awards. He has worked with Woody Allen, Margaret Mead, Eric Clapton and Michael Caine. Much of his career has gone into projects that promote freedom. He worked with Ayn Rand to restore We the Living. He consulted on the Atlas Shrugged film series and on a stage adaptation of Anthem. He directs the Objectivist History Project, a nonprofit that is building a video history of the early Objectivist movement. Duncan is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and the Creative Council of The Moving Picture Institute.
🎬 Info and streaming: wethelivingmovie.com 🇦🇺 Australian premiere details: Australian Centre for Objectivism
Timestamps:
00:20 Why this is the best Ayn Rand movie ever made
04:22 Why this film hits harder in 2026 than in 1942
08:17 How Fascist Italy stole Ayn Rand's novel
11:17 Mussolini's son helped green-light it
12:47 Editors hid dangerous scenes from the censors
13:39 The star who joined the underground and saved American soldiers
15:08 Italy's first epic and the #1 film of 1942
16:38 Goebbels watches it and orders, "You cannot show this film"
19:35 Ayn Rand sees the film for the first time
20:19 The director who threw out the script and filmed straight from the book
28:19 How a cold letter got Duncan the job of a lifetime
34:18 Rand's cut: the subplots go, the three leads stay
40:46 Where to stream or download it now
46:46 New subtitles that are faithful to Rand's own words
48:16 The artistry: the lighting, the direction, and Renzo Rossellini's score
50:18 The story: Kira, Leo, Andrei, and a deadly love triangle
51:47 Rand drew it from her own life in Soviet Russia
Live audience questions:
52:30 Why did Criterion and Kino Lorber turn it down?
53:00 Do 90% of buyers really download instead of stream?
53:40 Will the score be released as a soundtrack?
54:35 Is We the Living the best entry point to Ayn Rand?
#aynrand #wetheliving #movies #IndividualRights #InstituteForJustice #FreeSpeech #capitalism #Objectivism
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France Riots; Ukraine; Kasparov on Israel; Iran; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 170)Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/PYUMle6XazMFrance is burning because everyone wants a bigger state …
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France Riots; Ukraine; Kasparov on Israel; Iran; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 170)
Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/PYUMle6XazM
France is burning because everyone wants a bigger state, and the state is already broke. When the left, the right and the mob in the street all demand more from a government that can't even protect its own shops, what comes next?
550,000 people marched in France "for school funding." By Sunday, 1,500+ shops had been looted, Limoges city hall had burned down, and 1,000 police were injured. Yaron Brook explains why this is how the welfare state ends.
On this episode, Yaron argues that every faction in France wants more from a government that's already broke. Students, unions, fishermen, the far left and the far right all make the same demand. Debt is heading past 120% of GDP, and the bond market has noticed. Yaron's answer is zero tolerance for looting and no new handouts. He also takes on Trump and Vance for blaming immigrants. Paris burned in 1968 too.
Then Yaron turns to the Trump administration's pressure on Ukraine. Trump waived the new Russia sanctions days after signing them. The US is now buying Russian diesel. Ukraine says it got no US missile warning before a major strike, and Rubio blamed "a software program."
Next is Garry Kasparov's New York Times op-ed on Israel. Yaron agrees with Kasparov that Israel's founding compromise with the ultra-Orthodox threatens its future more than Hamas does. Yaron compares it to America's founding compromise on slavery, which ended in civil war.
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TIMESTAMPS
02:33 France riots: 550,000 marchers, 1,500+ shops looted, Limoges city hall burns
11:29 The Yellow Vests return, and the anarchist wing takes over
14:11 Trump and Vance blame immigrants
15:41 The antisemitism angle is easy to overplay
17:20 France's bond market alarm
25:42 Europe is stagnating, and the far right is rising
32:09 Trump is pushing Ukraine to surrender
33:32 The administration proposes dropping tariffs on 77 categories of Chinese goods 34:36 Kyiv gets hit, and Rubio's "software" excuse
40:05 Rep. Fitzpatrick: the first Republican crack?
44:29 Kasparov is right about Israel's founding compromise
47:04 America's slavery compromise and Israel's Haredi compromise
52:22 The draft exemption after October 7
55:13 Israel can't stay half theocratic and half secular
57:19 Iran: 40 days with zero tankers at Kharg Island
58:33 Is Iran timing its Hormuz attacks to the US midterms?
1:00:36 West Bank settlers
1:02:58 Temporary protected status (TPS) extended for 100,000 Ukrainians
1:04:35 Anthropic's "public good fund" and Musk's SpaceX shares for kids
1:06:17 Syria's new textbooks teach jihad
1:07:04 Achievement: Wise and stablecoins undercut Western Union's 6% fees
1:09:30 Starlink is winning flyers for United
LIVE AUDIENCE Q&A
1:13:57 Can JD Vance win without Trump?
1:16:21 How does a central purpose prevent "neurotic drift"?
1:20:00 How does France survive constant riots? Where in Europe should you live? 1:24:51 More sympathy for Iranians than for the French?
1:26:13 Is Germany's AfD a Nazi party?
1:26:56 After the Yom Kippur War, did Israelis think the wars were over?
1:27:40 Did the Enlightenment have a "missing link" problem?
1:28:47 Why is Ted Cruz struggling to hire staff?
1:29:38 Is the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) worth following?
1:30:08 Did Trump betray MBS? And is Rupert Lowe friend or foe?
1:31:43 What would an Atlas Shrugged prequel be about?
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Fauda -- Review of the Netflix's Israeli TV Show | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 16)Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/lVDNhQjTsL8What does it say about the West that a Netflix …
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Fauda -- Review of the Netflix's Israeli TV Show | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 16)
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What does it say about the West that a Netflix thriller tells more truth about Israel and the Palestinians than most universities do?
Torture works. Revenge can be justice. And one line from a Palestinian father explains the whole Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos take on Netflix's hit Israeli series Fauda, all five seasons. That includes the October 7 episodes that left viewers in tears around the world.
Yaron grew up in Israel and served in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces). He explains why Fauda is the most realistic show ever made about undercover counterterrorism. It shows Shin Bet (Israel's internal security service) operators who speak Palestinian Arabic, smoke Arab cigarettes so the enemy can't smell them, and come apart from living two lives at once. No martinis. No glamour. Just chaos, which is what "fauda" means in Arabic.
Then the hard questions. Why does a 2020 season about a hostage rescue in Gaza look like prophecy now? Did the show help lull Israel into "the concept," the belief that power had tamed Hamas? Why is recruiting the man who raped and murdered a comrade's family as a double agent a moral outrage? Why does Yaron call Season 5's episodes 7 and 8 essential viewing for anyone who didn't live through October 7?
The live Q&A covers evangelicals turning against Israel, whether October 7 was an invasion rather than a "terror attack," Batman versus Iron Man, Shane, European food, and Yaron's plan for Capitalism AI.
Main discussion
0:00 Intro
3:15 Who the Fauda unit really is: Israelis who pass as Palestinians
11:44 Living two lives destroys you (with a nod to Eli Cohen)
15:00 War is not romantic: the real cost on both sides
16:10 Why the villains carry the show
19:02 Season 1: the hunt for The Panther
29:47 Season 2: ISIS in the West Bank, and Hamas as a "Fatah in the making"
34:17 Season 3: the "father of prisoners" and a prophetic mission into Gaza 38:53 Nobody wants Gaza, not Israel and not Egypt
42:48 Season 4: Hezbollah, Molenbeek, and fake Lebanese road trips 4
53:36 Season 5: a unit traumatized by October 7
1:04:00 Episodes 7 and 8: October 7 on screen
1:16:47 When the state protects evil, is vigilante justice right?
1:19:55 Yaron is pro-revenge: Israel's return to its old doctrine
1:21:25 Real heroes: the cast and crew who fought and died
Live audience Q&A
1:26:51 Why October 7 is a turning point for the whole West
1:37:27 Why Middle East cafés are full and Chinese streets never stop
1:43:30 Would the West change its mind if it saw October 7?
1:46:36 How German leftists came to hate Israel
1:48:46 How Israel stops soldiers being kidnapped, and the truth about the Hannibal Directive
2:04:21 Did you fall for the killer's lie?
2:06:24 Are pro-Israel evangelicals turning antisemitic?
2:09:24 Are people too mindless for Objectivism?
2:18:23 Is the opposite of love hate, or indifference?
2:21:01 Does sad art get harder to take as you age?
2:23:02 Why Batman beats every other superhero
2:42:42 When Israel interrogated Yaron about Objectivism
2:51:06 Coming up: the Suez Crisis
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Live Oct 17, 2026 | Yaron Brook ShowAnswering Capitalism’s Critics #4: Smarter Every Day-The PROBLEM with Capitalism | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 169)Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/wrEh206HAi4If …
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Live Oct 17, 2026 | Yaron Brook Show
Answering Capitalism’s Critics #4: Smarter Every Day-The PROBLEM with Capitalism | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 169)
Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/wrEh206HAi4
If chasing profit makes products worse, why did a YouTube engineer just make money by building a better one?
Smarter Every Day has 12 million subscribers. Its video "The Problem with Capitalism" has 2.9 million views. It is also wrong about how capitalism works, and Destin Sandlin's own business shows why.
In episode #4 of Answering Capitalism's Critics, Yaron Brook goes through Destin's argument segment by segment. Yaron chairs the Ayn Rand Institute and has spent decades defending free markets. Destin says that "pushing capitalism to the max" and putting "profits over people" make every product worse over time. Yaron argues that Destin's chain-mail grill scrubber proves the opposite. Destin saw that the products on the shelf were dangerous, built a safer one, sold it at a premium, and made a profit. Yaron calls that an entrepreneur at work, and he says that is the force that makes markets deliver better products.
Yaron takes apart Destin's whiteboard "profit pyramid." He tests it against Ferrari, Henry Ford's decision to double wages, and the huge pay packages AI companies offer top talent. He argues that share prices punish short-term exploitation because they are based on expected future profits. He answers Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" theory, the claim that dominant companies let their products decay once customers are locked in. He also argues that Destin's 100% Made-in-America rule made customers wait years and pay more to satisfy a moral feeling.
Destin is a great engineer. He leaves engineering behind when he starts talking about economics.
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Main topics
01:20 Answering Capitalism's Critics #4: why Yaron chose Smarter Every Day
04:12 The chain-mail grill scrubber and the 100% American rule
14:50 Destin's thesis that "profits over people" ruins products
27:02 The "Profit Prioritization Perambulator" whiteboard
41:41 The "evil CEO" model leaves out the customer
49:28 Producing overseas often raises quality, as Japan, Ford Europe, and Apple show
55:47 Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" theory against Google, Apple, and AI
1:09:20 Destin's own business disproves his model
1:23:04 The altruism hidden inside "it's an ethical problem"
1:30:34 The Costa Rica knobs: familiarity bias and "exploitation"
1:34:06 Israel Kirzner: entrepreneurs are alert to profit no one else has noticed
1:37:50 Made in America sacrificed Destin's customers
1:45:25 Next critic: The Entrepreneurial State
Live audience questions
1:48:24 Does capitalism need better storytellers?
1:49:41 Will Trump try to stay in office after 2028?
1:52:40 Flying cars, and will Europe ever accept air conditioning?
1:53:20 Is ugliness on the far left and far right a sign of inner hatred?
1:55:00 Has the free-market movement failed?
1:57:19 Is Destin a nationalist?
1:57:53 Does Destin even want to think?
2:00:12 Is Naomi Klein next?
2:00:23 What could go wrong in the midterms?
2:07:48 Was Destin missing economics, philosophy, or both?
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#SmarterEveryDay #MadeInAmerica #Enshittification #profitmaximization #destinsandlin #Entrepreneurship #Economics #technology #WealthInequality #MixedEconomy #AynRand #IndividualRights #Objectivism #Capitalism #FreeMarkets
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Mineral Rights: Who Should Own What’s Under the Ground? Australia Case Study | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 168)Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/9f2XBrckRO8Who owns the gas under Australia? Is it 28 …
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Mineral Rights: Who Should Own What’s Under the Ground? Australia Case Study | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 168)
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Who owns the gas under Australia? Is it 28 million Australians? The Crown? Or the people who spent A$234 billion turning 100 million years of worthless pressure in a rock into cargo bound for Japan?
Australia is one of the world's biggest exporters of natural gas, and Melbourne is still heading for a gas shortage. Yaron Brook argues that the East Coast never ran out of gas. It ran out of permission slips.
In this episode, Yaron Brook takes on one of the oldest assumptions in politics: that what's under the ground belongs to "the nation." Australia's gas fight is the case study. The unions and Greens want a 25% tax on gas exports. The Labor government is passing a rule that forces producers to offer 20% of their exports to Australian buyers. Both proposals start from the same premise, "it's our gas." Yaron argues that premise is wrong.
Ownership requires the ability to use, sell and exclude, and no Australian can do any of those things with "his share" of a gas field. A resource is a thing in the ground plus a mind that knows what to do with it. The people who supplied that mind, and the money and the risk, were Shell, Chevron, Woodside and the Japanese utilities whose 20-year contracts paid for the plants. The state's claim is a leftover from British kings.
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Main topics
00:50 Who should own what's under the ground?
03:53 Australia is the #3 LNG exporter in the world, yet faces a gas shortage by 2028
06:45 Two proposals: a 25% export tax vs. a 20% domestic reservation
08:30 The hidden premise: "It's Australia's gas"
14:46 How Japanese contracts & foreign capital built Western Australia's gas industry
19:46 WA's 15% rule, and why setting terms in advance matters
27:26 The gas under their feet: Victoria's constitutional fracking ban
29:37 "They didn't run out of gas. They ran out of permission slips."
29:58 Europe made the same mistake
34:32 Windfall profits and "economic rent": the case for the tax
36:33 A resource tax that raises less than beer tax
42:28 Who owns the gas? There's no such thing as collective ownership
43:05 Mineral rights came from kings. Why the US is the exception
46:02 A resource = a rock + a mind (Rand, Julian Simon, Alex Epstein)
48:11 A "fair return"?
49:16 12 million Americans get royalty checks, and that's why the US drills
53:40 Why Norway's 78% tax "works," and Australia's plan is its opposite
55:13 Why a revenue tax is especially destructive
57:25 Britain's windfall tax: investment went from $14B to $2B a year
1:00:26 Why the gas industry keeps losing
1:06:00 The strongest case for the 20% reservation
1:09:21 The "three companies control 90%" argument, answered
1:11:31 Twenty years of Western Australia's reservation: what it actually did
1:17:09 The Abundance Program: privatize the minerals
1:20:53 Abolish the rent tax, set a 12-month approval clock, go nuclear, build pipelines
1:25:23 Tax supporters: do you want the money or the gas?
1:27:14 This is coming to America
Live Q&A
1:31:26 Is Trump buying stakes in companies the Australian model?
1:33:19 Is Australia a lost cause for liberty?
1:37:43 Mad Max: Australia's warning about oil shortages
1:43:12 Elon's flying car: real or hype?
1:46:13 Ayn Rand vs. Phil Donahue: whose oil was it?
1:48:53 Why do monarchies still exist?
1:50:14 Is immigration to blame for Australia's housing shortage?
1:52:18 Does Israel prove a country doesn't need immigrants?
1:54:43 Would a capitalist country allow a voluntary kibbutz?
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Consequences; Affordability (Cochrane); Ukraine; War?; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 167)Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/WWE2CR74PfQ"Trump just broke his own economy — and 80% of …
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Consequences; Affordability (Cochrane); Ukraine; War?; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 167)
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"Trump just broke his own economy — and 80% of Republicans now want the same price controls Mamdani does. Is there anyone left who still believes in free markets?"
America just got its hottest inflation reading since the peak of the Biden years — and Yaron Brook names exactly who caused it: Trump's tariffs and his unfinished war with Iran.
In this episode, Brook tears into a shocking new WSJ poll showing 80%+ of Americans — Republicans included — now support socialist-style price controls on rent, credit cards, drugs, and wages. Using economist John Cochrane's "Grumpy Economist" analysis, Brook explains why "affordability" is a meaningless word, why price controls always produce shortages and black markets, and why the real enemy of capitalism isn't politicians — it's the idea that self-interest is immoral.
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Main Topics
00:00 – Why Yaron is launching on Twitch, and the plan for a public "Capitalism AI"
15:27 – September PPI shock: the hottest inflation reading since Biden's peak
17:39 – This inflation is Trump's, not Biden's: tariffs plus an unwon Iran war
22:42 – AI stocks sell off as bond yields spike
25:46 – The Strait of Hormuz is still a warzone — oil shipping costs triple
29:06 – "Affordability" is a meaningless word — here's what's actually driving prices
30:40 – Shocking poll: 80%+ of Americans, Republicans included, want price controls
42:27 – John Cochrane's 12-point plan to actually lower prices (Yaron agrees with almost all of it)
52:53 – Why the free market is unpopular: people think self-interest is immoral
1:07:56 – Zelensky explodes at Trump; Starshield sabotage exposed
1:16:14 – Saudi Arabia spends $82 billion a year and still can't stop Houthi drones
1:21:22 – Trump cancels the public execution livestream — for the wrong reasons
1:26:09 – The jobs report nobody's talking about: 29,000 jobs, almost all in data centers
1:28:26 – Real achievements: a cancer drug that doubles survival, Ukraine's $7,000 drone killers, and a Silicon Valley legend's passing
Audience Questions
1:38:23 – "A diabetic begged Congress to cap insulin prices — is he wrong to want it?"
1:41:26 – "Isn't 'my life' enough of a central purpose?"
1:46:02 – "If concept formation is learned, why isn't that proof we have free will?"
1:54:16 – "Would killing property taxes make housing even more expensive?"
1:56:33 – "Is Britain's Kemi Badenoch secretly an Ayn Rand fan?"
1:58:03 – "Shouldn't we also defend the drug maker's right to profit, not just attack the 'need' argument?"
#Inflation #Tariffs #Economics #Ukraine #ForeignPolicy #Libertarian #Affordability #Inflation2026 #Deregulation #socialism #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #ForeignPolicy
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Hasan Piker; Starlink/Ukraine; Inflation; Netanyahu; Banking; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 166)Does Yaron Brook think Hasan Piker — Twitch's biggest socialist, a man who openly praises …
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Hasan Piker; Starlink/Ukraine; Inflation; Netanyahu; Banking; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 166)
Does Yaron Brook think Hasan Piker — Twitch's biggest socialist, a man who openly praises Mao, Castro, and North Korea — is actually the most honest man on the American left? And if so, why can't a single Democratic moderate explain what's wrong with him?
Hasan Piker streams eight hours a day to millions of viewers, pulls in seven figures doing it, and openly admires Mao, excuses North Korea's labor camps, and calls Zionists Nazis. According to a new Atlantic investigation by left-leaning writer Jonathan Chait, Piker isn't a fringe embarrassment to the Democratic Party — he's its most consistent expression. In this episode, Yaron Brook explains why moderate Democrats can't actually refute Piker: they've already conceded his core premise, that self-sacrifice for the collective is the standard of virtue. Once you grant that, Piker isn't an extremist. He's just honest.
From there, Brook tears into a week's worth of stories that all come down to the same question — principle or expedience? Elon Musk throttles Starlink bandwidth to Ukrainian drones in the middle of a Russian blitz on the power grid, and Brook argues the real culprit isn't Musk, it's Trump — foreign policy run on mood instead of strategy. A hot CPI print quietly wipes out six months of real wage gains. Former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar sues Netanyahu over ignored October 7th warnings. Bank of America eats a $1.2 billion fine for a "crime" with no victim and no proof. And one state, Idaho, actually cuts its regulatory code instead of growing it — proof that deregulation isn't just a talking point.
Reason over tribalism. Individual rights over collective guilt. That's the standard applied to everyone in this episode — a streamer, a president, a prime minister, and a bank regulator alike.
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Main Topics
0:01 — Intro
2:21 — Hasan Piker goes mainstream: inside Jonathan Chait's Atlantic piece
43:46 — Why moderate Democrats have no answer for Piker
54:28 — Altruism's hierarchy of victims: how it leads straight to Mao and Castro
1:04:25 — Starlink throttled to Ukraine mid-blackout — whose call was it really?
1:12:06 — Hot CPI print erases six months of real wage growth
1:21:21 — Ronen Bar sues Netanyahu over October 7th warnings
1:27:15 — Bank of America's $1.2B fine: a crime with no victim
1:36:49 — Idaho's 49% regulatory cut: deregulation that actually happened
Audience Q&A
1:47:46 — Is "here today, gone tomorrow" really a malevolent-universe premise in disguise?
1:49:26 — Is our education system manufacturing kids who can't survive in a meritocracy — and is that fueling the Nazi/communist comeback?
1:57:51 — Does all nihilistic behavior trace back to self-hatred?
2:01:39 — Why do Objectivists almost never talk about "central purpose" — and why does it matter so much?
2:07:23 — Should principled capitalists vote Republican just to push Democrats back to the middle by 2028?
2:12:06 — Would 90% tax rates actually force businesses to hire more people, like Sam Seder claims?
2:16:53 — AOC has an economics degree — so why is she this economically illiterate?
2:17:44 — Could the US end the Iranian regime with zero American casualties — so what's Trump actually afraid of?
2:20:04 — If government forced banks into bad loans, did failing banks deserve bailout money?
#HasanPiker #Ukraine #Netanyahu #Inflation2026 #Deregulation #socialism #communism #marxism #mao #china #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #ForeignPolicy
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Trump's FP; SA; China Debt Spiral; AI Panic; Omar Raid; CFTC; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 165)Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/8XZGFr8hY1MWhy does Donald Trump only have one kind of …
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Trump's FP; SA; China Debt Spiral; AI Panic; Omar Raid; CFTC; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 165)
Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/8XZGFr8hY1M
Why does Donald Trump only have one kind of friend in the world — dictators?
In one single afternoon, Donald Trump blamed Ukraine for Russia's missiles, threatened the Houthis with action "after the election," and mused about meddling in Israel's vote — and Yaron Brook says none of it means anything, because Trump doesn't have a foreign policy, he has impulses.
On this episode of the Yaron Brook Show, Yaron tears into Trump's authoritarian-friendly instincts, breaks down a Saudi Arabian airport attack that shows Iran's reach is only growing, and lays out — number by number — why China is trapped in a debt spiral that should embarrass every politician on the left and right pushing "industrial policy."
Then: a Michigan Senate candidate's AI panic platform that would freeze American innovation cold, a politically-timed FBI raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's home, and a CFTC trade scandal with Trump's fingerprints potentially all over it — a six-million-barrel oil sell-off, fifteen minutes before Trump reversed an Iran strike plan, followed by an alleged cover-up at the agency that's supposed to police exactly this kind of thing.
Plus: Guyana's oil windfall—a nation of 800,000 people suddenly flush with more oil money per capita than almost anywhere on Earth, and a reminder of what resource wealth looks like when it's not run by a kleptocracy.
And through it all, Yaron makes the case for the achievements that still make this country work, even when its politics are broken. This is capitalism, foreign policy, and moral clarity, unfiltered — new episodes every week.
Main Topics
00:00 — Cold open: does Trump have a foreign policy, or just instincts?
04:15 — Trump blames Ukraine, threatens the Houthis, and talks about meddling in Israel's election
12:40 — Saudi Arabia airport attack: Iran's reach isn't shrinking, it's spreading
21:05 — Inside China's debt spiral — the numbers both parties ignore
31:50 — A Michigan Senate candidate wants to freeze AI. Here's why that's a disaster.
40:20 — The FBI raid on Ilhan Omar's home — politics or justice?
48:00 — CFTC scandal: a six-million-barrel oil sell-off, 15 minutes before Trump reversed course on Iran
56:30 — Guyana's oil windfall — what resource wealth looks like without a kleptocracy
1:04:10 — Yaron on the achievements still worth defending
Audience Questions
1:12:00 — Is Trump's instinct for dictators dangerous, or just realism?
1:16:45 — Can China collapse without taking the world economy down with it?
1:21:30 — Should AI really be regulated like a weapon?
1:26:10 — Is the Omar raid politically motivated, or is she actually guilty of something?
1:31:00 — Did Trump's inner circle profit from insider knowledge at the CFTC?
1:35:40 — What does a country do right when oil money doesn't get stolen?
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Europe Burning; Econ Nobel; Trump & Diesel; SA & Houthis; Compute; More | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 164)Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/RpIc2_QaFBMIs Europe's welfare state now a machine that …
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Europe Burning; Econ Nobel; Trump & Diesel; SA & Houthis; Compute; More | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 164)
Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/RpIc2_QaFBM
Is Europe's welfare state now a machine that burns its own young to feed its old — and is Trump too much of a coward to stop pouring gas on the fire?
France's teenagers are torching their own schools. Spain is rioting over rent. Bond yields in Paris just blew past 2008 levels. Yaron Brook says none of this is really about Macron, migrants, or budgets — it's a fifty-year-old promise the old made to themselves and billed to the young, and the bill just came due. In Season 12, Episode 164, Yaron tears into Europe's demographic collapse, calls out Trump for buying diesel from Putin to shave gas prices before the midterms, breaks down this year's Economics Nobel, explains why Houthi missiles hitting Riyadh's airport barely made the news, and lays out why compute — not capital — is now the scarce resource in AI.
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Main Topics
0:00 — New Monday schedule, plus a new biweekly philosophy show with Greg Salmieri
5:30 — Why Europe is burning: a welfare state built to sacrifice the young for the old
16:07 — Germany's government in freefall and the AfD's quiet rise
35:28 — Islamism, not immigration, is Europe's real crisis
36:30 — Houthi missiles slam Riyadh's airport while the world looks away
39:21 — This year's Economics Nobel and the theory of creative destruction
48:37 — Trump's call with Putin: buying Russian diesel to save his poll numbers
51:21 — The "ceasefire" Moscow never agreed to — and broke within hours
54:41 — Trump blames Zelensky instead of the man who invaded Ukraine
58:09 — Why isn't Trump demanding Russia get a new president?
1:08:00 — Inside the AI compute arms race: Google's $200 billion-a-year bet
1:10:53 — Capital is no longer scarce — compute is the new bottleneck
Audience Questions
1:14:00 — Is Argentina proof that Milei's shock therapy actually works?
1:19:00 — Should the government be funding secret HHS drug trials?
1:26:00 — Is "MAGA antisemitism" real, or manufactured outrage?
1:33:00 — Does executing the Fort Hood shooter finally deliver justice?
1:41:00 — Is Sam Harris still worth taking seriously on Islam?
1:47:00 — Could Mamdani's deregulation push actually help New York?
1:54:00 — Is being "settled" the quiet death of ambition?
2:01:00 — Why is political compromise sometimes just slow poison?
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Live Oct 10, 2026Gad Saad's Book "Suicidal Empathy" | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 15)Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/YAYMf1uIMEQ*Is "too much empathy" really what's wrecking the …
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Live Oct 10, 2026
Gad Saad's Book "Suicidal Empathy" | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 15)
Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/YAYMf1uIMEQ
*Is "too much empathy" really what's wrecking the West — or did Gad Saad just hand the left a get-out-of-jail-free card?*
Gad Saad says the West is dying of "suicidal empathy" — kindness and compassion gone haywire. Yaron Brook says that's exactly backwards, and in this Yaron & Nikos Dialogue he explains why: Saad never defines empathy, concedes that altruism is morality, and lets evolutionary psychology do work it can't do. The real killers aren't an overdose of compassion — they're altruism, tribalism, and the refusal to judge anyone for anything. Yaron and Nikos take the book apart chapter by chapter — immigration, socialism, taxation, criminal justice — and show why "he couldn't help it, it's evolution" is the most dangerous sentence in the book. Also: Erika Kirk's forgiveness, Mamdani dodging October 7th, California's billionaire tax, and a review of Yes Minister's "The Compassionate Society."
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Main Topics
00:00 — Why Yaron almost shut the book off after chapter one
13:48 — Saad never tells you what's evolution and what's your choice
16:38 — "Empathy as the standard" — how this becomes intersectionality
21:56 — The real problem: 300 pages of red meat, zero theory
44:23 — The "survival benefits of empathy" argument collapses
1:01:44 — Virtue signaling, determinism, and why we stopped judging people
1:09:35 — Yaron's framework: altruism + tribalism + non-judgmentalism, not "empathy"
~1:15:00 — Erika Kirk's forgiveness of her husband's killer
~1:25:00 — Mamdani can't say the word "terrorism" about October 7th
~1:35:00 — California's billionaire tax and the pragmatist's blind spot
~1:45:00 — Yes Minister's "The Compassionate Society" — satire that aged perfectly
~1:55:00 — Rick and Morty review
~2:05:00 — Self-interest vs. mere "preference" — why the distinction matters
Audience Questions
~1:12:00 — "If Christ's crucifixion is the ultimate act of suicidal empathy, why won't Saad say so?"
~1:28:00 — "Is deporting innocents along with criminals an acceptable trade-off?"
~1:40:00 — "If communism is 'the right system for the wrong species,' isn't socialism still the moral high ground?"
~1:50:00 — "Does forgiving a killer make you virtuous — or just undefended?"
~2:10:00 — "If criminality is 'in the genes,' can we still judge anyone at all?"
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Financiers Acquitted; Iran; Peace Nobel; Skilled Immigration; SpaceX; Cancer | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 163)Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/9W4hUwuBLaM"Why did 18 of 19 financiers just get their …
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Financiers Acquitted; Iran; Peace Nobel; Skilled Immigration; SpaceX; Cancer | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 163)
Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/9W4hUwuBLaM
"Why did 18 of 19 financiers just get their convictions thrown out — eleven years after prison took their lives?"
A banker gets 14 years — the sentence we reserve for second-degree murder — for nudging a number by a hundredth of a percent. Eleven years later, the courts admit there was never a crime. On this episode, Yaron Brook tears into the acquittal of the LIBOR traders and argues Wall Street has been the West's designated scapegoat since the 2008 crash — while the central banks that actually rigged the system walk free.
From there Yaron goes to war: a three-day Pentagon strike plan on Iran is sitting on Trump's desk and nobody will sign it, Navi Pillay just won a Nobel Peace Prize that makes Obama's look earned, and JD Vance just suspended Microsoft and seven other companies from the green card system — proof the "we're only against illegal immigration" line was always a lie. Plus: SpaceX's $8 billion spectrum play that could gut AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile overnight, and a genuinely stunning number on cancer survival that nobody's talking about.
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Main Topics:
0:00 — Intro
1:00 — LIBOR traders acquitted: how finance became the West's designated villain
25:06 — The real crime: a trader moves a number by 0.01%, gets prison
35:52 — Self-interest is the engine of every honest trade in history
41:35 — Iran: six war plans drafted, none signed — strategic paralysis exposed
44:36 — Pentagon drafts credibility, Trump declines to sign it
47:14 — The Nobel Peace Prize, from Obama and Arafat to today's farce
56:49 — JD Vance suspends Microsoft and 7 others from the green card system
1:02:27 — The $70K and $103K fees quietly strangling legal immigration
1:05:31 — Harvard admissions data exposes the "Asian grind culture" racists
1:12:25 — 5 of 6 science & tech medals this year went to immigrants
1:15:48 — SpaceX's $8B spectrum deal that could crater AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile
1:17:00 — Should universities admit only the highest-potential minds?
1:19:01 — Cancer survival jumped from 49% to 71% in one generation — here's why
1:22:01 — Wrap-up / show support
Audience Q&A
1:24:06 — Did Gaza's population actually rise during the war — or is that claim false?
1:25:20 — Did Israel's bot and TikTok PR campaigns backfire into more conspiracy theories?
1:26:42 — Why has the "official" history of who the good guys were started to crumble?
1:34:25 — Did Obama's Peace Prize kill the Nobel's credibility for good?
1:37:29 — Is Trump right that "no borders, no country"?
1:40:49 — Why does the world feel materially richer but spiritually poorer every year?
1:41:57 — Does trade require believing you're more logically productive than your partner — and does that expose AI's limits?
1:45:46 — Did Rubio mix up the Athenians with the Spartans in his Athens speech?
1:48:23 — Do statists tinker with the system because they know it's resilient enough to survive them?
1:48:56 — Would you risk civil disobedience if free speech got abolished — even without the numbers to win?
1:52:39 — Why are JD Vance and Bernie Sanders both racing to disown open borders?
#Immigration #H1B #SpaceX #NobelPeacePrize #WallStreet #finance #libor #IranWar #justice #FreeMarkets #capitalismvssocialism #Individualism #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #ForeignPolicy
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Rubio in Athens; Iran War?; Bond Vigilantes; Ukraine; Vance; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 162)Watch Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMOHEwoqILY"Marco Rubio stood on the hill where …
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Rubio in Athens; Iran War?; Bond Vigilantes; Ukraine; Vance; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 162)
Watch Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMOHEwoqILY
"Marco Rubio stood on the hill where democracy was born and praised Western civilization — so why did he credit the religion that shut down the Academy and buried it for a thousand years?"
Marco Rubio gave a speech on the Pnyx, with the Acropolis behind him, defending Western civilization — on October 7th, without once mentioning October 7th. Yaron Brook breaks down why half of Rubio's speech is brilliant (individualism, reason, the pursuit of excellence) and the other half is a dishonest sleight of hand that credits Christianity for burying the very Greek ideas it's praising.
Then: Trump orders the Pentagon to prep Iran strikes to lower gas prices — then cancels them until after the midterms, handing Tehran a free month. Bond vigilantes are now pricing French and British government debt as riskier than their own corporations' bonds — Yaron explains why that's a good thing. Russia is leveling Ukrainian apartment buildings and nobody's chanting "genocide." And JD Vance, when asked to define socialism, says he "doesn't really know what the term means anymore" — conveniently, since the Trump administration now owns equity in 30+ US companies.
Yaron Brook — chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute — gives you the news the way almost nobody else will: judged against reason, individual rights, and whether politicians are telling you the truth.
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Topics covered: Rubio's Athens speech and the fight over who really owns Western civilization, the farce of Trump's Iran war threats timed to the midterms, why bond vigilantes are heroes not villains, Russia's civilian massacres in Ukraine getting a pass, JD Vance redefining socialism to dodge his own administration, and a Q&A on October 7th, Israeli politics, and more.
Main Topics
0:00 — Cold open: Rubio's Athens speech, staged on October 7th, never mentions October 7th
~6:00 — What Rubio gets right: individualism, reason, "the unknown can be known"
~18:00 — How the speech smuggles in Christianity as the "cause" of the West
~30:00 — Nationalism, torn-down monuments, and the Achilles misquote
43:03 — "The ancient Greeks were not naive" — Sparta vs. Athens, and why the 300 is the wrong example
~55:00 — Iran: Pentagon told to prep strikes, then Trump cancels until after the midterms
1:02:42 — "It's all about the election" — gas prices and the Hormuz farce
1:05:59 — Bond vigilantes: why the market pricing France and the UK as default risks is a good sign
1:09:13 — French corporate bonds now safer than French government bonds
1:12:07 — Ukraine: Russia's glide bombs on commuter buses, 33 dead, nobody says "genocide"
1:15:28 — JD Vance can't define socialism (because Trump's government owns equity in 30+ companies)
Live Audience Q&A
1:44:54 — "Was October 7th a pogrom or an invasion?" — why neither label quite fits
1:47:09 — "Is Rubio secretly moderating Trump, or is he just Trump's legitimizer?"
~1:50:00 — Should states have one official language?
~1:55:00 — Should Europe send its navies to open the Strait of Hormuz?
~2:00:00 — Achievements of the week — and a detour into raw shrimp
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Oct 7 -- Lessons Learnt?; Mamdani; Bond Vigilantes; Half Fought War; More | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 161)Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/xVvmgDG-0_k"What if October 7th wasn't a failure of …
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Oct 7 -- Lessons Learnt?; Mamdani; Bond Vigilantes; Half Fought War; More | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 161)
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"What if October 7th wasn't a failure of intelligence — but a failure of nerve? Three years later, Yaron Brook names the lesson Israel and the West still refuse to learn."
On the third anniversary of October 7th, Yaron Brook delivers his most unflinching verdict yet: the massacre wasn't an intelligence failure — it was a failure of philosophy. Israel had the warnings. It had drone footage of Hamas rehearsing the attack on model kibbutzim. It had a direct call from the UAE. It ignored all of it because "the Concept" — the comforting lie that Hamas could be bought off — was easier to believe than the truth staring everyone in the face.
Three years later, Brook argues, nothing essential has changed. Netanyahu still hasn't called a commission of inquiry. JD Vance just softened "stop enrichment" into a meaningless "cut" in Iran's nuclear program. Zohran Mamdani is spreading blood libel in New York. And the bond market is quietly preparing to punish a government that still refuses to say the word "austerity."
Brook also honors the real heroes of that day — the untold story of Lt. Col. Or Ben-Yehuda, who held the line at Tsufa when the state failed to — and closes with a reminder that even in a week this dark, science keeps delivering: GLP-1 drugs may be slowing human aging itself.
This is a show about moral clarity — naming the enemy, naming the failure, and refusing to let comfortable lies pass as analysis.
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Main Topics
0:00 — Remembering October 7th, three years later
3:52 — The untold heroism of Lt. Col. Or Ben-Yehuda at Tsufa
10:00 — Was October 7th really an "intelligence failure" — or something worse?
24:06 — Why is Trump's Iran "peace board" letting the enemy write its own surrender terms?
27:40 — How did Just War Theory get Israeli soldiers killed by friendly fire?
34:58 — Why did the institutions meant to inform us lie instead?
38:42 — Should Netanyahu's 15 years in power disqualify him from leading Israel forward?
49:22 — Is Mamdani's rhetoric just politics — or outright blood libel?
56:46 — Why is JD Vance quietly redefining "victory" over Iran?
1:00:16 — Who decided the Jones Act was worth more than cheap diesel?
1:03:38 — Are the bond vigilantes about to make Washington pay for its debt denial?
1:09:50 — Could GLP-1 drugs actually slow human aging?
1:13:07 — A new spinal implant that could end the fusion-surgery era — why it matters to Yaron personally
Audience Questions:
"Was October 7th preventable — or inevitable once leaders chose comfort over truth?"
"Does Netanyahu deserve credit for the war, or blame for the 15 years before it?"
"Is 'meaningful cut in enrichment' a retreat from victory over Iran?"
"Should Mamdani's comments disqualify him from office — or is this outrage theater?"
#October7 #Israel #Hamas #Mamdani #IranWar #Netanyahu #BondMarket #israelhamaswar #france #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Individualism #Objectivism #AynRand #EconomicsExplained
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AI Debate - Gates vs. Huang; France; Wars; Nationalists; More | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 160)Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/TG_A3NOP6qE?feature=share Jensen Huang says AI is about to make …
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AI Debate - Gates vs. Huang; France; Wars; Nationalists; More | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 160)
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Jensen Huang says AI is about to make humanity richer than it's ever been. Bill Gates says we should regulate it like a loaded gun. They can't both be right — so which billionaire actually understands what reason and capitalism built?
Bill Gates wants AI regulated like a chemical plant. Jensen Huang wants to build as fast as physics allows. Yaron Brook breaks down why this isn't a fight about technology — it's a fight about whether risk-aversion or achievement should run the 21st century, and why Gates' Microsoft could never have survived the rules he now wants to impose on everyone else.
Then: France's municipal elections just handed nationalists dozens more cities and nobody has an answer for them — because the "opposition" is just a different flavor of collectivism. Yaron explains why the real fight in the West isn't left versus right anymore, it's individualism versus every collectivist alternative on offer.
Plus: the wars nobody's finishing, why "nationalist" has become a badge of honor on both continents, and the AMA where Yaron takes your toughest questions live.
🔴 Live audience Q&A included — Yaron takes on your questions about AI regulation, French politics, war strategy, and the rise of the new nationalist right, unscripted.
Main Topics
00:00 – Cold open: Gates vs. Huang, framed
06:40 – Why Bill Gates wants AI regulated like Microsoft never was
22:15 – Jensen Huang's case for building without permission
38:50 – Where real rights-violations in AI start — and where "risk" is just fear
55:30 – France's municipal elections: the nationalist right keeps winning
1:12:05 – Why "left vs. right" in Europe is really collectivism vs. collectivism
1:28:40 – The wars with no stated victory condition
1:45:10 – Nationalism's quiet slide toward tribalism — and who it blames next
Audience Questions
2:02:00 – Should AI even be called "artificial intelligence"?
2:08:30 – Is Bill Gates right that unregulated AI is a loaded gun?
2:14:50 – Can France's center actually hold against Le Pen's successor?
2:21:15 – Is the "civil war on the right" real, or one ideology in disguise?
2:27:40 – What does an actual war-winning strategy look like right now?
2:34:00 – Is nationalism just socialism with a flag?
#ArtificialIntelligence #BillGates #JensenHuang #Nationalism #bondmarket #AIInnovation #economicfreedom #FrancePolitics #ForeignPolicy #IndividualismVsCollectivism #AIRegulation #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand
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Plague?; Climate Suit; Debt; Brazil Elections; Spain; Cornell7; TX Vaccines; AI App | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 159)Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/CR6qBxvOokcThe global economic engine is …
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Plague?; Climate Suit; Debt; Brazil Elections; Spain; Cornell7; TX Vaccines; AI App | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 159)
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The global economic engine is stalling—are freedom and individualism our only way out, or are we heading for total systemic collapse?
Is humanity sleepwalking into a global crisis driven by debt, government overreach, and climate alarmism? In this episode, Yaron Brook breaks down the rising tide of authoritarian policies, economic missteps, and ideological battles reshaping our world. From groundbreaking climate lawsuits and mounting national debt to pivotal elections in Brazil and the future of AI technology, Yaron tackles the core philosophical and economic threats facing liberty today.
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Timestamps
00:00 – Intro: The Global State of Freedom & Today’s Topics
03:15 – The Next "Plague"? Pandemics, Control, and Public Health Overreach
12:40 – Climate Lawsuits: Destroying Energy Markets Through the Courts
22:10 – The Looming Global Debt Bomb: Who Pays the Bill?
31:05 – Brazil’s Crossroads: Elections, Freedom, and Populism
41:50 – Spain’s Policy Crisis & Lessons for Western Europe
50:30 – Free Speech Under Siege: The Cornell 7 Case
1:00:15 – Texas Vaccine Controversies & Individual Rights
1:10:00 – AI Apps, Innovation, and Government Regulation Threats
Live Audience Q&A:
1:18:30 – Is government debt intentionally designed to erode individual wealth?
1:24:15 – How do Objectivists handle climate doom-mongering without denying science?
1:30:45 – Can Brazil recover its free-market principles, or is populism permanent?
1:37:20 – Are state-level vaccine mandates a violation of property rights over our own bodies?
1:44:10 – Will regulation kill the AI revolution before it even gets off the ground?
1:51:00 – Wrap-up: Final Thoughts on Standing Up for Individualism
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Live Oct 4, 2026The Yom Kippur War | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 14)"Four days from annihilation — how did Israel survive the war its own intelligence said could never happen?"On …
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The Yom Kippur War | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 14)
"Four days from annihilation — how did Israel survive the war its own intelligence said could never happen?"
On October 6, 1973 — the holiest day of the Jewish year — Egypt and Syria launched a coordinated surprise attack that nearly destroyed the state of Israel. For the first four days, the outcome was not assured. Golda Meir would later say Israel had never faced a graver danger — not even in 1948.
In this episode of Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Yaron Brook — who was 12 years old and living through it in real time — walks through the Yom Kippur War from the inside: the catastrophic intelligence failure that let two armies mass on Israel's borders undetected, the political failure that compounded it, the brutal first 96 hours when Syrian tanks were rolling through the Golan and Egyptian forces had crossed the Suez, and the American airlift that turned the tide. Did Israel actually ready nuclear weapons as a last resort? Yaron and Nikos go there too.
This isn't a dry history lecture. It's a case study in what happens when a free, rights-respecting nation gets complacent about an enemy that never stopped planning to destroy it — and why that lesson didn't stay in 1973.
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Main Topics
00:00 — Intro: why this war still matters 50+ years later
05:00 — Setting the board: the Six-Day War hangover and Sadat's hidden plan
15:00 — October 6, 1973: the attack that caught Israel on its holiest day
28:00 — The intelligence failure — how did Israel miss it?
40:00 — The political failure above the intelligence failure
55:00 — The first four days: when Israel feared it might not survive
1:10:00 — The nuclear question: were weapons readied?
1:25:00 — The American airlift and the turning point
1:40:00 — Aftermath: Agranat Commission, Golda Meir's fall, and what Israel learned
Live Audience Questions
1:50:00 — "Was this Israel's 9/11 — a failure of imagination, not intelligence?"
1:55:00 — "If Nixon hadn't airlifted weapons, does Israel lose this war?"
2:02:00 — "Does October 7th prove Israel never actually learned the 1973 lesson?"
2:09:00 — "Was going nuclear ever a real possibility, or Cold War mythology?"
2:16:00 — "How did a 12-year-old Yaron experience the war in real time?"
2:22:00 — "Could oil-embargo-style economic warfare work against Israel again today?"
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Live Oct 3, 2026 | Yaron Brook ShowAMA & Hangout with Contributors (Oct 2026) | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 158)Is Trump just an exploitative narcissist wearing capitalism as a costume — and are the …
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AMA & Hangout with Contributors (Oct 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 158)
Is Trump just an exploitative narcissist wearing capitalism as a costume — and are the people defending him on "policy over character" grounds abandoning the only standard that matters?
Yaron Brook doesn't do softball AMAs. In this live Hangout with Contributors, he takes questions straight from the audience and doesn't flinch — on Trump's character, on whether Iran's regime is actually cracking, on why Stoicism is a consolation philosophy for people who've given up, and on the parenting, workplace, and relationship questions nobody else will answer with actual principles instead of platitudes. If you've ever wondered what reason, individualism, and rational self-interest look like applied to your actual life — not just to geopolitics — this is the episode.
No scripts. No talking points. Just Yaron, live, defending ideas under fire.
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Main Topics
0:20 Opening remarks and panel introduction
1:33 Free markets, Catholicism, and Poland's post-communist reforms
6:12 Ukraine's surrendered nukes and the Budapest Memorandum betrayal
8:11 Daylight savings time — why does government get to set the clock?
12:04 License-plate surveillance and the Fourth Amendment under Flock Safety
20:03 Classical music for beginners — where to actually start
27:00 Vetting local candidates and California's housing reform fight
46:38 Election predictions and what gridlock actually buys you
54:31 Thatcher's legacy and why London still works
59:05 London's millionaire exodus and the UK wealth-tax threat
1:00:59 Bill Gates wants AI regulated — by whom, exactly?
1:09:44 Cornell's due-process scandal and Trump's accountability push
1:24:30 Nihilism and the school riots spreading across France
1:28:03 School choice vs. the push to federalize education
1:30:26 Masculinity and femininity as psychological orientations, not costumes
1:44:25 Steve Jobs, Dagny Taggart, and what masculine presence actually looks like
1:57:02 Why intellectuals hate AI and fear capitalism's own success
2:01:44 Closing remarks — preview of tomorrow's Yom Kippur War show
Live Audience Questions
10:15 "When is government standardization — weights, measures — actually justified?"
17:37 "Should we trust surveillance cameras the way Korea and Canada do?"
32:18 "Is California's zoning reform actually working, or just theater?"
33:36 "I don't have a will yet — what do I actually need in place?"
37:54 "How do I find a job I love without torching my financial safety?"
51:25 "Cardio or strength — how do I actually build a routine that sticks?"
1:04:48 "How do I sell a sculpture — are SoCal galleries even worth it?"
1:06:57 "Is Korean school bullying as brutal as 'Teach Me a Lesson' shows it?"
1:22:15 "Does your education or politics actually determine what you can achieve?"
1:27:06 "Should I move to Austin — is it becoming an Objectivist hub?"
1:33:57 "What does masculinity even mean in a world where reason matters most?"
1:36:15 "Rand on femininity — does it only apply in the bedroom?"
1:39:29 "Do real sex differences matter when I'm hiring someone?"
1:46:17 "Is 'toxic masculinity' a real thing or a media invention?"
1:54:17 "Does visibility online actually wreck your self-esteem?"
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FlyDubai; Iran; Diesel: Economy; Rent; More | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 157)Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/Sc5vO6ast-kA plumber who'd only ever seen plane crashes on TV just saved 174 lives after …
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FlyDubai; Iran; Diesel: Economy; Rent; More | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 157)
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A plumber who'd only ever seen plane crashes on TV just saved 174 lives after a jihadist co-pilot stabbed the captain and nosedived a 737 — so why is diesel at $6.37 a gallon the story nobody in Washington wants to explain?
A co-pilot stabs the captain mid-flight and sends a Boeing 737 plunging 14,000 feet in under 30 seconds. A bleeding pilot unlocks the cockpit door with his last ounce of strength. A plumber named Yaniv Hayun — who'd never flown a plane in his life — grabs the stick and levels it out. That's not a movie pitch. That happened Wednesday on FlyDubai flight FZ1073, and Yaron Brook opens this episode with the full, insane sequence of events — then asks the harder question: what does it mean that Israelis are now a marked target in the one Gulf city they'd flooded into since the Abraham Accords?
From there Yaron tears into why diesel just hit a record $6.37 a gallon — the Strait of Hormuz still half-shut seven months into a war the U.S. could've won in week one, Ukraine's drones gutting Russian refineries, and two decades of Western "net-zero" refinery closures finally coming due. He explains why Trump's flirtation with a diesel export ban is the exact kind of price-control stupidity that makes everything worse, not better. Then it's rents — why Tokyo never freezes and never runs short, while Madrid and New York freeze constantly and stay expensive — a hostile takeover shaking Germany's banking system, a weak jobs report, and a Major League Baseball stat that proves AI already calls a better game than human umpires.
Live audience questions hit London's surprising post-Thatcher vibrancy, European tipping culture, and why tech's AI doomers sound more like a guilt-ridden apocalyptic cult than engineers.
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Main Topics
00:00 — Cold open
07:53 — FlyDubai hijacking: the plumber who saved 174 lives
20:34 — Why Israelis flooded into Dubai — and why that made this a target
26:35 — Iran's economy is collapsing, but the regime isn't going anywhere yet
34:02 — Kevin Hassett's empty promise: "gas relief is coming virtually imminently"
41:36 — Why Trump's diesel export ban would backfire within weeks
44:26 — The Jones Act and 20 years of net-zero refinery closures
1:00:36 — Mortgage rates spike to 7.6%
1:06:46 — Tokyo vs. New York vs. Madrid: rent control manufactures scarcity
1:09:56 — Israel's Supreme Court unanimously reinstates banned Arab parties
1:12:44 — The Iowa steel plant deal: cronyism dressed as "manufacturing revival"
1:14:06 — A hostile takeover rocks Germany's second-biggest bank
1:17:03 — Robot umpires are right half the time the humans are wrong
Live Audience Questions
1:22:17 — "London felt vibrant and capitalist — am I wrong about stagnant Europe?"
1:28:54 — "Are AI doomers just drowning in unearned guilt?"
1:28:54 — "Do Americans really tip better than Europeans?"
#Iran #IranWar #StraitOfHormuz #DieselPrices #RentControl #FlyDubai #economicfreedom #InterestRates #AIRegulation #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #EconomicsExplained
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Live from Madrid 2 (Sept 29, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 156)Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/Anji2QvT0QU"Iran's currency just hit 2.5 million rials to the dollar — so why is Trump still …
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Live from Madrid 2 (Sept 29, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 156)
Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/Anji2QvT0QU
"Iran's currency just hit 2.5 million rials to the dollar — so why is Trump still afraid to win this war?"
Iran is losing. Its currency just crashed to a record 2.5 million rials per dollar, inflation is spiraling, and its regime is so desperate it's now threatening to bomb the Saudis and the UAE — because it's too scared to touch Israel. So why is the Trump administration still refusing to finish the job?
Live from Madrid, Yaron Brook tears into the week's biggest contradictions: Trump's threatened diesel export ban and his midnight tariff war on Canadian whiskey — both textbook cases of a president making policy by whim instead of principle. Then Yaron pulls the actual CBO data to demolish the "hollowed-out middle class" myth once and for all — real incomes are up across every income group since 1979, and the rich are shouldering more of the tax burden than ever. He rips apart Anthropic's jaw-dropping $2 trillion IPO filing that openly admits its own product "may pose existential risk to humanity" — and asks who invests in that. And he closes with the 46th anniversary of the Simon-Ehrlich bet, the wager that permanently settled whether the world is running out of anything.
Plus: Spain's eviction ban chaos, the Senate capping what college athletes can earn, and why so many young Americans have started blaming the opposite sex for their problems.
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Main Topics:
0:00 – Intro from Madrid, 46 years of the Simon-Ehrlich bet teased
2:14 – Iran threatens regional infrastructure if its demands aren't met
5:15 – Iran's rial collapses to 2.5 million to the dollar
7:32 – Is the Strait of Hormuz really open? The tanker-tracking numbers
10:32 – Why there's no point going to war unless you're committed to winning it
~14:00 – Trump's diesel export ban: another price-control disaster in the making
~19:00 – Midnight tariffs on Canadian whiskey, dairy, and motorcycles — pure whim
~26:00 – Consumer confidence is falling even though Americans are getting richer
~31:00 – The CBO data that kills the "hollowed-out middle class" myth
~37:00 – The rich are paying more taxes than ever — the opposite of the narrative
~42:00 – Anthropic's $2 trillion S-1 admits its product could be an existential risk
~50:00 – Spain's eviction ban and the Senate's college athlete pay cap
~55:00 – Young Americans blaming the opposite sex
~58:00 – The Simon-Ehrlich bet, 46 years later: scarcity vs. human ingenuity
Live Audience Q&A:
~1:02:00 – "If tariffs are just a tax, why does Trump keep calling them leverage?"
~1:06:00 – "Is regime change in Iran actually still possible at this point?"
~1:10:00 – "If the middle class isn't hollowed out, why does everyone feel poorer?"
~1:14:00 – "Should an AI company be allowed to IPO while admitting it might end humanity?"
~1:18:00 – "Is rent control ever justified in a housing crisis?"
~1:22:00 – "Why do young men and women suddenly hate each other online?"
#IranWar #TradeWar #AIRisk #economicfreedom #InterestRates #IranNuclear #AIRegulation #TrumpNews #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #Anarchism #EconomicsExplained
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Live from Madrid (Sept 28, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 155)Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/sLrPRT7SZaAIf markets are pricing in "no adults in the room" on U.S. debt, mortgage rates are back …
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Live from Madrid (Sept 28, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 155)
Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/sLrPRT7SZaA
If markets are pricing in "no adults in the room" on U.S. debt, mortgage rates are back above 7%, and Iran just got its president a seat at the UN mid-war — does anyone in Washington actually have a plan, or is everyone just improvising in public?
Yaron Brook finally makes it to a webcam after a week bouncing between Tbilisi, Florence, and Madrid — and he's not easing back in gently. He opens with the story most people are ignoring: 10-year Treasury yields above 5.2%, 30-year above 5.5%, mortgages back over 7%, and a bond market that's stopped pretending anyone in Washington has a debt plan. Then he tears into Iran's latest fake offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, calls out Trump's red-carpet groveling to Xi, and makes the case that NVIDIA and a scrappy biotech startup — not government regulation — are the real answer to AI risk. Starship reached orbit. A Hamas operative got asylum in the UK. And somehow Netanyahu, for all his faults, still looks like the last adult in a room full of European politicians who'd rather cave than govern.
Then the audience takes over: CPAs, career advice, zoning fights in your own backyard, whether men are really being "feminized," and why one European capital's mayor just switched parties. Unfiltered capitalism, individualism, and foreign policy — live, from a hotel room in Spain.
Main Topics:
00:00 — Live from Madrid: why there was no show for a week (Tbilisi, Florence, and Georgian hospitality)
09:11 — The real story: 10-year yields above 5.2%, mortgages over 7%, and no adults in the room on U.S. debt
14:55 — Why "deregulation + AI will save us" is a bipartisan fantasy
36:12 — Iran's fake Hormuz reopening offer — and why oil above $100 tells the real story
41:01 — A Hamas bodyguard was granted UK asylum, and Britain barely blinked
58:36 — NVIDIA's OpenShell/Sentry and Red Queen Bio: AI is the answer to AI risk — and Starship reaches orbit
1:44:16 — Why Netanyahu, for all his flaws, is still a giant next to Europe's leaders
Audience Questions:
1:07:24 — "How do I actually vet and trust a CPA before handing them my finances?"
1:18:18 — Should your neighbor get to tear down a house and build multi-family housing next door?
1:40:23 — Poland's mayor just became a Democrat — good sign or empty gesture?
1:42:07 — Are men really being "feminized" in modern society — or is that the wrong word entirely?
1:46:34 — Will Europe's tariff wars hand the next elections to the left?
#InterestRates #IranNuclear #AIRegulation #Netanyahu #SpaceX #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #MarkZuckerberg #TrumpNews #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #Anarchism #EconomicsExplained
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