Year End Show - 2025 in Review | Yaron Brook Show
🎙️ Recorded live Dec 31, 2025

2025 in Review: Reason vs. Chaos — What the World Got Wrong (and What Comes Next)

2025 was a year of wars, lies, moral panic—and moments of clarity.

In this special Year-End episode of the Yaron Brook Show, Yaron looks back at the defining political, cultural, and philosophical battles of 2025—and lays out what really matters heading into 2026.

From Israel, Iran, Ukraine, and U.S. politics to capitalism, culture, leadership, AI, and the future of freedom, Yaron cuts through the noise with reason, principle, and moral confidence.

The second half features an extended live audience Q&A, reflecting on the year, challenging premises, proposing future shows, and asking the big questions no one else will touch.

If you’re tired of doomscrolling, tribalism, and intellectual cowardice—this is your antidote.

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🕒 TIMESTAMPS
Opening & Year in Review
0:00 — Welcome & framing 2025: chaos vs. reason
6:45 — The state of the world: war, politics, and moral failure
10:12 — Why ideas—not events—drive history

Live Audience Q&A Highlights
13:32 — Gratitude, reason, and why this show matters
16:35 — Book Review: American Icon — leadership and saving Ford
17:18 — Music & culture: can art embody values?
18:50 — Trump, impeachment, and moral standards
26:46 — Why YBS has become a primary news source
54:20 — Executive orders: facts vs. narratives
1:04:45 — Best realistic future for the U.S. and Israel
1:14:31 — ICE vs. the SS? The danger of moral equivalence
1:25:32 — Markets, capitalism, and economic outlook
1:40:58 — Imagining a fully capitalist world
1:49:51 — Israel & Gaza: the moral case explained
1:59:00 — AI, productivity, and statism in 2026
2:08:39 — Ukraine: predictions for 2026
2:24:06 — The Declaration of Independence at 250
2:29:06 — Multilingualism, reason, and child development

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Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.