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Dynamiting the Temple of Ayn Rand

Dynamiting the Temple of Ayn Rand
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look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. now on booktv gary weiss explore the political and social ideologies of ayn rand author of the fountain head and atlas shrugged. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] thank you for that warm and flattering introduction. it is interesting if you listen carefully to margaret s introduction, you will notice you might ask yourself why did i write a book about ayn rand. after all i am not a philosophy professor. nor am i an economist. these are the areas ayn rand was best known. she was a philosopher and she heavily influenced economic and political thought. my background is writing about wall street. in particular the underside of wall street. what got me interested in ayn rand was the 2008 financial crisis. i was writing an article on to wasn t alan greenspan it was timothy geithner, one of his major influences was alan greenspan. one of his mentor

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host: hello from the campus of u.s. be in los angeles where booktv has the los angeles festival of books. we are taking advantage of this beautiful location to do our monthly index program. our guest this month is tibor machan who is an ethicist and political philosopher and author of more than 30 books legal scholar papers and regular blotter. we will introduce him to you on our in-depth program for the next three hours. thank you for being here. let me start with people not familiar with your work. i described you as a political philosopher but tell us about your core philosophy. my area of specialization is political philosophy but also do ethics and general philosophy. like many classical philosophers i think you need a comprehensive approach to make a case for various branches of philosophy. over the years i have come to believes that the classical liberal social political stance which associates with john locke, john stuart mill, thomas jefferson and so forth is the

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and they came into power, all of those that have liberation are still in power. it is not in the interest of anyone of the other countries lose power because it is a bad precedent. that is the political conflict. host: i hope there is a solution soon. the book is the fear. thank you for being with me today. . . for the next three hours, author and philosopher, tibor machan from the times festival of books. he has written extensively on morality, business, capitollism, and it includes the passion for liberty, puts humans first, and the man without a hobby. host: hello from the campus of usc in los angeles where book tv is this weekend for the los angeles festival of books. we are taking advantage of the beautiful location to do the monty in-depth program live. our guests this month is tibor machan who is a political philosopher, author of more than 30 books, he s a regular blogger and freelance columnist. we re going to be introducing him to you on the in depth

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and general philosophy like many classical philosophers. i think that you need a comprehensive approach to make out the case for various branches of philosophy. but, essentially, over the years i have come to believe that the classical liberal social-political stance, one that one associates with john locke, john stuart mill, thomas jefferson and so forth, is the sound position to take on political issues. as to ethics and epistemology and aesthetics and so on, that s another story. but if you were talking about politics which is what most ordinary folks are interested from philosophers, from academic philosophers, what position do you hold on, you know, the first amendment, the interstate commerce clause, whether one should be able to tell people how do they behave right and wrong and all of that stuff, that s what they want to know. and there i think i can safely be called a libertarian or classical liberal. host: who in american politics today most closely aligns with yo

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