Atlas Shrugged
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: Vance STUNS Independent Voters After Walz's VP Debate Disaster! | Timcast IRL
Podcast: Timcast IRLSo it's just the irony; it reminds me a lot of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand where you have the really effective businessman who all the bureaucrats absolutely hate.
- Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2114 - Zack Snyder
Podcast: The Joe Rogan ExperienceBut it's funny because look, and I get by the way, Alice Shrugged, fair, you know, you can play with that.
- Episode: Discussing Communism in All Its Glory | Michael Malice | EP 407
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastNow here's my issue: I’ve read Ayn Rand's books, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, a few times, specifically in the last couple of months.
- Episode: Meaning Through Responsibility | The Heritage Foundation & Dr. Kevin Roberts | EP 397
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastI've just been rereading Atlas Shrugged, which I do oddly enough about every 15 years, and I figured out one of the core problems with her doctrine; it might be the core problem.
- Episode: Meaning Through Responsibility | The Heritage Foundation & Dr. Kevin Roberts | EP 397
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastRereading Atlas Shrugged four or five years ago ironically is what made me realize my own deficiencies in thought about the free market and a couple of other shibboleths of the right, which is to say that so many very thoughtful men and women who are devotees of Rand make the mistake that she's making, and they haven't thought through the consequences of that as it relates, for example, to regulatory capture.
- Episode: School-Kids as Factory Products | Zach Lahn | EP 370
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson PodcastThey're sitting in different chairs reading, and the books that I saw them reading were 'Atlas Shrugged,' 'The Boy Who Challenged Hitler,' 'The Da Vinci Code,' and 'Unbroken.' This is all without us saying you need to read any of these books.
- Episode: Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships | Lex Fridman Podcast #337
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastI think once I hit high school and college, I had my edgy, libertarian-esque high school phase of reading Ayn Rand and figuring out that, 'Oh my God, nothing in life matters except for class and money; that's actually the answer to everything.'
- Episode: The KEY HABITS All Successful People Have To ACHIEVE ANYTHING! | Patrick Bet David & Jay Shetty
Podcast: On Purpose with Jay ShettyThey're debating two books: one is one form of economy, the other book is another form of economy. They're debating 'Atlas Shrugged' and the 'Communist Manifesto,' which is kind of like the complete opposite of religions in economics.
- Episode: Los Angeles Rams GM Les Snead on Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing
Podcast: The Daily StoicSo it took me two summers to just finish this summer for the first time because I didn't read it before—Atlas Shrugged. Yeah, so I mean you're a thousand something pages into a pretty—what did you think?