http://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtvThis user has not entered a description yet.enCopyright Jennifer Grossman (C/O Blogtalkradio)Sun, 16 Jun 2019 02:15:00 GMTWed, 18 Oct 2017 19:00:00 GMTNon-ProfitBlogTalkRadio Feed v2.0https://dasg7xwmldix6.cloudfront.net/hostpics/393ad9f7-88a3-4233-9cd7-2dcc5c77e05c_gl.jpghttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtvThis user has not entered a description yet.feeds@blogtalkradio.comBlogTalkRadio.comnon-profit,atlas shrugged,ayn randJAG TVnoThis user has not entered a description yet.episodichttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/10/18/pocket-guide-to-objectivismNon-Profithttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/10/18/pocket-guide-to-objectivism/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/10/18/pocket-guide-to-objectivismWed, 18 Oct 2017 19:00:00 GMTPocket Guide to ObjectivismListen, and re-listen, to the basics pillars of Ayn Rand’s philosophy while going about your daily activities.  It’s a simple, digestible way to brush up on your basics, and think about how to apply these principles toward building your best life. 00:44:00JAG TVnoThe sleeper hit of the summer, our very own Pocket Guide to Objectivism, is now even easier to consume -- via audio.http://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/05/10/berkeley-comes-to-minnesotaNon-Profithttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/05/10/berkeley-comes-to-minnesota/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/05/10/berkeley-comes-to-minnesotaWed, 10 May 2017 14:30:00 GMTBerkeley Comes to MinnesotaThe pretext was a series of nasty notes using the end-words left on black students doors or cars.  Protests erupted within hours, which then became organized under the aegis of The Collective, a group of student activists who shut down classrooms and brought the college to a standstill.  The school administration is bending over backwards to sign The Collective's Terms & Conditions for Negotiation and evaluate a series of demands ranging from sensitivity training to hiring more minority teachers to curricula changes.  But some students see this episode not as a cover for an attempt to impose a leftist agenda of more hiring quotas, more speech codes, more politically correct indoctrination.  Andy Morales, Sophmore economics major at St. Olaf's, spoke to Jennifer Anju Grossman on how the real problem on campus isn't a lack of ethnic and gender diversity -- but rather a lack of intellectual diversity.  Hear his account of a campus in crisis -- and the left's attempt to use it to their advantage. 00:21:00JAG TVnoStudent protests and classroom shut-downs have roiled the small liberal arts college of St. Olaf in rural Minnesota. Andrew Morales, Mexican-American Sophmorehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/05/03/who-is-david-kelleyNon-Profithttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/05/03/who-is-david-kelley/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/05/03/who-is-david-kelleyWed, 03 May 2017 19:00:00 GMTWho is David Kelley?The founder of The Atlas Society talks to Jennifer Grossman, stepping back from abstract philosophical explanations for a personal conversation about his early years.  In the first of a series of conversations, Professor Kelley opens up about his dealings with Ayn Rand, what it was like to speak at her (and earlier, her husband's) funeral, and the early days of The Ayn Rand Institute.  After earning a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1975, he joined the philosophy department of Vassar College, where he remained until 1984. He has also taught at Brandeis University as a Visiting Lecturer. Among his books are Unrugged Individualism: The Selfish Basis of Benevolence; The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand; The Evidence of the Senses, a treatise on epistemology; and The Art of Reasoning, one of the most widely used logic textbooks in the country.  00:34:00JAG TVnoHe is a philosopher who spoke at the funerals of both Any Rand and her husband, Frank O'Connor. A professional philosopher, teacher, and author, David Kelley phttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/04/26/mark-skousen-on-ayn-rand-ben-franklinNon-Profithttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/04/26/mark-skousen-on-ayn-rand-ben-franklin/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/04/26/mark-skousen-on-ayn-rand-ben-franklinWed, 26 Apr 2017 19:30:00 GMTMark Skousen on Ayn Rand & Ben FranklinThe Skousen clan would be libertarian royalty -- if the concept weren't antithetical to the classical liberal economics and individualism they espouse.  The pater familias is Mark Skousen, who recently visited Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman at her Malibu home with his better half, Jo Ann Skousen.  During a wide-ranging discussion, he talked about plans for this summer's 10th annual FreedomFest -- the largest gathering of free market activists in the world.  Among them: the mock "debate" he and Grossman will perform, in the personas, and costumes, of their respective heroes, Ayn Rand and Ben Franklin.   00:15:00JAG TVnoMark Skousen, American economist, investment analyst, college professor, prolific author and founder of FreedomFest, recently sat down with Jennifer Anju Grossmhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/04/09/andy-puzder-perseverance-and-ayn-randNon-Profithttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/04/09/andy-puzder-perseverance-and-ayn-rand/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/04/09/andy-puzder-perseverance-and-ayn-randSun, 09 Apr 2017 19:00:00 GMTAndy Puzder, Perseverance and Ayn Rand"Pretty subtle," Puzder recalls sardonically, in this personal interview with Jennifer Anju Grossman at his home in Franklin, Tennessee, days after resigning from his 17-year tenure as CEO of CKE Restaurants.  Agenda media, minimum wage, and the literature of Ayn Rand are among the subjects covered in this personal interview. It was quite a week for Andy Puzder.  He capped of a successful career as CEO of CKE Restaurants (the Hardee's and Carl's Jr. chains), published a WSJ op-ed on minimum wage, and finished up a round of media.  Still he found time to sit down with Jennifer Grossman to talk about how he's drawn inspiration from Ayn Rand -- and how he's passed that long to his six children. In a relaxed interview at his home in Franklin, Tennessee, Puzder proudly showed off his prize copies of signed editions of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, and shares the story of how he had each of his six children read Rand before he allowed them to get their driver's license. He also shared plans for his post-CKE life, including a book in the work on the industrial revolution. 00:16:00JAG TVnoIn the midst of slanderous backlash against his nomination by President Trump for the post of Secretary of Labor, Andy Puzder's wife came home to find an envelohttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/02/06/jeffrey-tucker-on-interviewing-ayn-randNon-Profithttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/02/06/jeffrey-tucker-on-interviewing-ayn-rand/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/02/06/jeffrey-tucker-on-interviewing-ayn-randMon, 06 Feb 2017 20:00:00 GMTJeffrey Tucker on Interviewing Ayn RandJeffrey Tucker of the Foundation for Economic Education is author of five books, including Bourbon for Breakfastand A Beautiful Anarchy.  He's  also a fierce admirer of Ayn Rand, and in this interview acknowledges a debt of intellectual influence to the great novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand.  In his article, The Day I Interviewed Ayn Rand, he gives the backstory to his recent groundbreaking "interview" with Rand (as played by The Atlas Society's Jennifer Grossman), and also why he believes the live event, presented by Students for Liberty, is such an important tool in capturing the imagination and reintroducing people to Ayn Rand.   Was it an educational exercise, entertainment, art -- or, as some fundamentalist critics seem to suggest -- heresy?  You'll have to listen the the whole interview to decide for yourself. 00:27:00JAG TVnoAyn RandHomage -- or heresy? Jeffrey Tucker's "interview" with Ayn Rand (as played by Jennifer Grossman) received accolades from the legions (over 5,000) of live viewehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/01/26/virginia-postrel-on-ayn-rands-glamourNon-Profithttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/01/26/virginia-postrel-on-ayn-rands-glamour/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/01/26/virginia-postrel-on-ayn-rands-glamourThu, 26 Jan 2017 22:30:00 GMTVirginia Postrel on Ayn Rand's GlamourWhile together at a Liberty Fund retreat at the historically infamous Jekyll Island, Georgia this past weekend, author Virginia Postrel and Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman took time to talk about one of the most controversial, influential, and yes -- glamorous -- women in literature: Ayn Rand. Postrel is a former editor of Reason Magazine, whose most recent book was entitled: The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion.  Among Postrel's insights was how in her  taste and personal style, Ayn Rand combined modernist design ideals with the movie glamour of the 1920s and '30s.  These aesthetic ideals, say Postrel, "Expressed who she wanted to be and how she wanted the world to be: scientific, strong, streamlined, and modern." 00:18:00JAG TVnoVirginia Postrel, author of The Power of Glamour, The Substance of Style, and The Future and Its Enemies, talks about the glamour of Ayn Rand -- and how the phihttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/01/17/art-vs-pornNon-Profithttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/01/17/art-vs-porn/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/01/17/art-vs-pornTue, 17 Jan 2017 20:00:00 GMTArt vs. PornMichael Newberry, the Atlas Society's Artist in Residence, talks about the philosophical roots of ugliness in modern art, and why he draws inspiration from Ayn Rand.  Newberrry, whose large scale portraits often feature the nude form, talks about the distinction, in Ayn Rand's view and his own, between ography and nudity in art.   He also talks about his upcoming reading group in which he will guide students through analysis of Rand's Romantic Manifesto. 00:20:00JAG TVnoAyn Rand,Atlas Shrugged,ArtistArtist, entrepreneur and objectivist Michael Newberry explores the philosophic divide between the romantic and the just plain raunchy.http://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/01/06/pillow-talk-with-john-stagliano-of-evil-angelNon-Profithttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/01/06/pillow-talk-with-john-stagliano-of-evil-angel/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/jagtv/2017/01/06/pillow-talk-with-john-stagliano-of-evil-angelFri, 06 Jan 2017 18:00:00 GMTPillow Talk with John Stagliano of Evil AngelGoogle "John Stagliano" and "Evil Angel" and you'll come up with lots of images and video clips not fit for family fare.  Yet Stagliano is a family man, who believes in teaching his children about ethics -- including staying true to yourself, being honest with others, and working hard at whatever profession you choose.  Stagliano has had a few -- ice cream truck driver, movie usher, cabbie, dancer, and producer.  He's also a lifelong Objectivist who can discuss philosophy with the best of them.  Here how Ayn Rand influenced him -- and how he's learned to use her principles to make sense of a complicated world. 00:22:00JAG TVnoAyn Rand,Atlas Shrugged,The FountainheadHow did Ayn Rand inspire industry tycoon John Stagliano? Jennifer Grossman, CEO of The Atlas Society gets the naked truth.