Archive for “Leonard Peikoff”


15 min. Leonard Peikoff Podcast #197

Topics in Leonard Peikoff’s latest podcast of philosophical Q&As include: whether bad people really believe in their destructive ideas; the nature of second-handedness; and how some speakers are able to answer questions so quickly and easily.

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14 min. Leonard Peikoff Podcast #196

Topics in Leonard Peikoff’s latest podcast of philosophical Q&As include: Nobel Prizes; short selling in the stock market; and public displays of affection.

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14 min. Leonard Peikoff Podcast #195

Topics in Leonard Peikoff’s latest podcast of philosophical Q&As include: Steven Mallory’s character and actions in The Fountainhead; why many people resist explicit, systematic philosophies; and jazz music.

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15 min. Leonard Peikoff Podcast #194

Topics in Leonard Peikoff’s latest podcast of philosophical Q&As include: why Ayn Rand was a slow reader; the meaning of the statement “not everything is black or white”; how to cope with unrequited love; and why morality does not require religion.

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15 min. Leonard Peikoff Podcast #193

Topics in Leonard Peikoff’s latest podcast of philosophical Q&As include: the Occupy Wall Street protests; secular humanism; and questions about parenting.

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48 min. Leonard Peikoff Podcast #192

This edition of Leonard Peikoff’s weekly podcast is an episode of Dr. Peikoff’s radio program, The Leonard Peikoff Show, which ran from 1995 to 1999. The episode is a Tie-In Contest, in which the audience is challenged to identify the philosophic principle that several different examples have in common. Recorded March 21, 1996.

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15 min. Leonard Peikoff Podcast #191

Topics in Leonard Peikoff’s latest podcast of philosophical Q&As include: monitoring one’s own thought processes; the “invulnerability” of Ayn Rand’s heroes; and whether gays have an obligation to come out.

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16 min. Leonard Peikoff Podcast #190

Topics in Leonard Peikoff’s latest podcast of philosophical Q&As include: how Dr. Peikoff chooses what fiction to read; playing hard-to-get; and Ayn Rand’s accent.

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17 min. Leonard Peikoff Podcast #189

Topics in Leonard Peikoff’s latest podcast of philosophical Q&As include: going into debt to pursue a career choice; outrageously-priced transactions; and the choice to procreate.

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16 min. Leonard Peikoff Podcast #188

Topics in Leonard Peikoff’s latest podcast of philosophical Q&As include: the meaning of a passage about pawn shops in The Fountainhead; narcissism; and parent-child bonding.

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