In this episode, Gloria Álvarez and Ayn Rand Institute chairman Yaron Brook discuss a wide range of popular current topics in science and philosophy—including free will and determinism, the role of genetics in a person's life, evolution and the Declaration of Independence. Brook contrasts the ideas of Steven Pinker and Yuval Noah Harari with those of Ayn Rand and Objectivism.

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