Podcasts that mention 📚 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

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The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand

Mentioned 13 times in 13 episodes across 5 podcasts.

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Behind the Bastards

Behind the Bastards episodes that mention The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Episode: Part One: How Conservatism Won | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

Published on April 3, 2024

The company of the commercial faithful gathered on the banks of Cali's Russian River could look for succor to Goldwater's autobiography, The Conscience of a Conservative, to William F. Buckley's editorials in National Review, to the novels of Ayn Rand!

Robert Evans talks about the novels of Ayn Rand as important conservative literature during the 1960s.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 01:09:32

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How I Write

How I Write episodes that mention The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Episode: You’ve Never Seen Writing Visualized Like This — Michael Dean

Published on April 9, 2025

Another fun fact is uh Howard Ror the character in Ran's novel Fountain Head is based off of Franklin Wright.

Michael Dean mentions Ayn Rand's novel "The Fountainhead" and its character Howard Roark, noting the character is based on Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman Podcast episodes that mention The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Episode: Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457

Published on January 19, 2025

People would say things like, "I read 'The Fountainhead,' and now I'm getting a divorce," you know?

Jennifer Burns shares anecdotes from fan letters to Ayn Rand, quoting someone who read 'The Fountainhead' and decided to get a divorce.

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Episode: Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #227

Published on September 30, 2021

i read it in high school i read the fountainhead in high school and atlas shrugged but that's at this point

Sean Kelly mentions reading Ayn Rand's book "The Fountainhead" in high school.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 01:20:34

Episode: Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth & the Fight Against Conformity & Mediocrity | Lex Fridman Podcast #174

Published on April 10, 2021

Is it useful at all to think about this kind of formulation of rational self interest if i could put in those words or i guess more negatively the the the selfishness where she would put i guess the virtue of selfishness

The host mentions this title in the context of discussing Ayn Rand's philosophy.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 30:41

Episode: Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion & the Nature of Belief | Lex Fridman Podcast #149

Published on December 28, 2020

and then from that you can derive an ethics about how to live life like what is the what is the good ethical life and all the virtue of selfishness

Lex mentions Ayn Rand's book in the context of her philosophy.

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Episode: Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain | Lex Fridman Podcast #140

Published on November 20, 2020

he made an analogy between me and uh character in The Fountain Head um the woman who's who's raped in the Fountain Head and I was like okay that's not that's not a good that's not a good that's not a good one not that part not that scene not that scene

The guest recounts a negative experience from an online personal ad where a man made an analogy to a character in this book.

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Episode: Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism | Lex Fridman Podcast #138

Published on November 13, 2020

as a side note let me say that I first read Atlas Shrugged and the Fountain Head early in college along with many other literary and philosophical works from n haiger Kant lock Fuko wienstein and of course all the great existentialists from kard to kamu

The host mentions reading this book by Ayn Rand in college.

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Episode: Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling | Lex Fridman Podcast #128

Published on October 2, 2020

if and if you read atlas shrug before reading the fountain head you're doing yourself an enormous disservice don't you dare do it on the philosophical

The guest mentions 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand, recommending it as a superior book to 'Atlas Shrugged'.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 03:13:03

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The Rubin Report

The Rubin Report episodes that mention The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Episode: Why Selfishness is a Virtue | Onkar Ghate & Tara Smith | POLITICS | Rubin Report

Published on February 27, 2019

we're going to be talking about selfishness and the virtue of selfishness

The host introduces the topic of the episode, explicitly mentioning 'the virtue of selfishness,' which is the title of a well-known book by Ayn Rand.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 00:13

Episode: On Bridging the Divide Between the Left and Right | Mark Duplass | POLITICS | Rubin Report

Published on April 14, 2017

you just did your own sort of Fountain Head style speech at the end there the music store the end of that Liz a man it was a pleasure talking to you

Dave Rubin compares Mark Duplass's concluding remarks to a speech style associated with Ayn Rand's novel 'The Fountainhead'.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 01:11:32

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Timcast IRL

Timcast IRL episodes that mention The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Episode: Timcast IRL - Grammys Push Pro BLM Riot Performance, Call For Accomplices w/RuckaRucka Ali

Published on March 16, 2021

you read atlas shrugged and like changed your life oh yeah the fountainhead really changed my life when i first read that And then atlas shrugged it's like that on steroids

Rucka Rucka Ali mentions reading 'The Fountainhead' and how it impacted him.

â–º Watch this excerpt @ 01:35:55

Episode: Timcast IRL - Chairman Of The Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, In Studio

Published on October 12, 2020

it's like all of these books that we used to read 1984 brave new world and ran it's all happening right now all at once like crashing into each other

The speaker lists this book (referring to the author's work) along with others as examples of dystopian or philosophical works that seem relevant to current events like autocracy, oligarchy, and technocracy.

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