Leonard Peikoff

Yeah, I think...

I think both Ayn Rand and Dr. Peikoff, Dr. Peikoff at least explicitly talks about the fact that what's the so-called collateral damage that you have in war is is the damage that occurs is the responsibility of the evil dictatorship that's causing the war.

So that Nazi Germany was bombed severely by the Allies and all kinds of people, thousands and thousands of people were killed.

Whose responsibility was that? the Nazi regime.

you like.

I wanted to say that if you believe, as Leonard Peikoff does, that all knowledge is connected, and I believe that, then we haven't really strayed

too far.

That would excuse anything, wouldn't

I'd recommend that if you had to.

By the way, Leonard Peikoff years ago, I think he said in his book, why do we have things like rational egoism or individual rights

or

laissez-faire capitalism? In other words, he said, why do we have these descriptors? Because the only kind of egoism is rational.

It is October 15th.

And I should note that today is Leonard Peikoff's birthday.

He is, what year is it now? He is 93 years old.

93 years old.

That's another good age.

93.

So happy birthday, Leonard Peikoff, wherever you are.

Well, I assume you're home.

His wife is in the hospital with cancer.

And I would encourage everybody who has gotten value out of James's work here or elsewhere to consider contributing to the fundraising campaign that Leonard Peikoff started for James and Holly Valiant to help with their medical bills.

Thanks, Yao.

Thanks, everybody, for watching.

Uh, reminder, uh, that the Ayn Rand Institute is a sponsor of, uh, the Ayn Rand Book show, and it is, uh, we'd like to encourage you to download the app.

There is a Ayn Rand Institute app, and, uh, the app make, uh, has on it, uh, provides access to a, a huge quantity of Leonard Peikoff courses, Ayn Rand lectures.

And it also has, um, a, a, a Johan Book and Don Watkins, um, 12-hour lecture series on capitalism, which if you haven't seen is really worthwhile, very well produced, beautifully done, like in documentary style.

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I mean, they bring in all of their, all of their friends.

So Leonard Peikoff, who would sort of promote her after, after she died, Alan Blumenthal.

Barbara's childhood friend, Joan Mitchell, comes with her boyfriend, Alan Greenspan, later to basically run the US economy, who at that point [laughs] she called ...

Do, do you know, do you know what Rand's nickname for Alan Greenspan was?

Paul Ozuys, let me correct you.

He says, "Razie's envious lol." So, you know, yesterday, uh, the reason I couldn't be on the show was because we had our, um, Ayn Rand meetup here in London, and we were discussing Leonard Peikoff's, uh, lecture on certainty from The Art of Thinking.

Uh, and this had been planned, you know, long in advance-

Mm-hmm