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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss recent conspiracism about Israel’s role in the Iran war.Topics include:
Facts conspiracists distort
Facts conspiracists evade
The conspiracist mentality
An anti-conceptual culture
Decades of unprincipled foreign policy
Tribalism and conspiracism
Evading America’s deadly morality
Resources:
Ayn Rand Lexicon entries on the anti-conceptual mentality, the arbitrary, and tribalism
Ayn Rand, “For the New Intellectual” in For the New Intellectual
This episode was recorded on April 8, 2026.
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