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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.
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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