The Ominous Parallels (MP3 download) Foreign Policy and Terrorism

The Ominous Parallels (MP3 download) Foreign Policy and TerrorismBy Leonard Peikoff In this lecture by philosopher Leonard Peikoff, delivered shortly after publication of his book, The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America, Peikoff argues that ideas have the power to shape human history. After explaining how bad philosophyspecifically, unreason and self sacrificegave rise to the evils of Nazi Germany, Peikoff points out disturbing parallels in American culture and offers Ayn Rands philosophy of

(These lectures are based on Dr

In this radio interview from the 1960s

Communicating an idea vs understanding it

and military rule under generals

I got an eyeful

by substituting rules for the doctor’s focus on reality

but the de-agonizing of writing

NOTE: Ayn Rand actively participates in the question periods of each of the last eight lectures

The philosophy of skepticism

Plato's ethics/politics: reason vs

offers Rand’s analysis of the election and stresses that the groundwork for political freedom must be laid in the classroom

arguing that “the verdict