Should Trump fans be unfriended? We the Living, "open Objectivism," libertarianism w/Holden; & more!

3 December 2025, Livestream #68

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?

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.

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

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

Engaging w/ chat:

Giving Ayn Rand credit

Miscellaneous topics, including:

Randsday in Florida

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Outro

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