Yaron Brook discusses the University of Tennessee’s recent granting of an honorary doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology to Al Gore, and what Ayn Rand had to say about it. (Pajamas TV interview; 9 min.)
In this interview, which took place in 1961 upon publication of For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand discusses: the nature of cultural leadership; the influence of Plato, Aquinas and Kant; the creeping mysticism infecting science; and the lengthy process by which individuals become the “new intellectuals” of tomorrow.
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