Should Trump fans be unfriended? We the Living, "open Objectivism," libertarianism w/ Holden; & more!
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Summary
3 December 2025, Livestream #68
0:00 Intro
2:00 Should Trump fans be unfriended (on Facebook)?
Trump voter vs. Trump fan
Be Facebook friends with Trump fans—or you're in an echo chamber (false alternative)
Isn't unfriending people what leftists do?
1:11:36 Doesn't Leonard Peikoff like Trump?
Being a fan of an aspect of Trump vs. of Trump as a whole
Being friends with Trump fans
Trump's first term vs. second term
Etc.
1:54:53 Call w/ Latent Prion re: ontology (the fundamental nature of being)
3:43:22 Call w/ Holden
Intro to Holden, his background re: Objectivism and economics
We the Living: Holden's reaction
Setting of the novel
Kira's first meeting w/Leo
The novel's ending and theme
Andrei, Kira, & Leo plot summary
Kira's ending
Movie version of We the Living
Andrei’s ending and whether one can be an honest communist
Ayn Rand’s emigration from Soviet Russia to the United States
Lying and prostitution in an authoritarian state
5:01:30 Murray Rothbard, Robert Hessen, George Reisman, Alan Greenspan
Reviews of Atlas Shrugged
Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, edited by Robert Mayhew
Catching up with chat
Alan Greenspan turned against Objectivist ideas
Richard Salsman, David Kelley, The Atlas Society, and "Open Objectivism"
Liquid Zulu, anarchy, libertarianism, and Objectivism
Did Ayn Rand originate the non-initiation of force principle? (the "non-aggression principle" or NAP); John Locke, the Levellers, Auberon Herbert; Robert Nozick
Harry Binswanger's letter to Robert Nozick and other work
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
Reading recommendations for Ayn Rand's nonfiction
Ayn Rand and Nietzsche
6:23:18 End of call
6:24:43 Break
Engaging w/ chat:
Giving Ayn Rand credit
6:32:23 ARI & I
Miscellaneous topics, including:
Randsday in Florida
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Outro
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