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Ben Bayer

@benbayer

Fellow and Director of Content, the Ayn Rand Institute. Former philosophy prof. Views expressed are my own, I am not authorized to speak for my employer.

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We're pleased to republish Leonard Peikoff's classic "Health Care is Not a Right," to reinject a dramatically underappreciated position now that health care is entering the political debate again: newideal.aynrand.org/health-care-is…

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Zuckerberg now says he was pressured to remove FB content about Covid. If so, this older essay of mine applies. But if you’re worried about political pressure on companies, worry that he’s also being pressured by Congressional Republicans. newideal.aynrand.org/facebook-censo…

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“There have, of course, been real conspiracies for which evidence has emerged. But [this doesn’t] show today’s conspiracists are ‘right.’ . . . One man’s fantasy does not transform into another’s evidence-based theory.” open.substack.com/pub/newideal/p…

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Mark Zuckerberg has recently stated that the U.S government pressured Meta to suppress content related to COVID-19. Read our article from 2019 by Ben Bayer that condemns government censorship through legal pressure on private companies. newideal.aynrand.org/facebook-censo…

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Wake up call: ISIS in Afghanistan isn’t going anywhere. Big concerts continue. AQ tried and failed to bomb the WTC in 1993, and then tried and succeeded. Is any presidential candidate thinking about this? Voters, distracted by tribal culture wars, have put it out of mind.

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Last month Nikos and I analyzed the RNC platform. Now we do the DNC. We read the dirty/boring docs so you don't have to.

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Clip from one of Winston Churchill’s favorite films (*Lady Hamilton*, 1941), as displayed at the Churchill War Room’s museum on Churchill’s life in London. Dare I say it was not applicable only to 1799 (when it’s set) and 1941, but today as well?

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While I've seen many people challenge the ridiculous claims made by Nazi apologist Darryl Cooper, I have not seen anyone on the "right" morally condemn Tucker Carlson for providing him with a platform and elevating him by calling him "[maybe] the best and most honest popular