October 21, 2025 Episode

Russia’s Rise, Gaza’s Chaos, GOP Racism & JD Vance’s Tariff Tyranny 

Russia is flexing. Gaza is burning. The GOP is sliding into racism and economic madness.  

Yaron Brook dives into a whirlwind of global and moral chaos — from Putin’s strategy to JD Vance’s tariff-fueled populism — exposing the ideas driving decline and what true capitalism demands instead.

Why is the West retreating morally and intellectually? Why is Japan fading? What’s behind Gaza’s endless crisis — and the GOP’s dangerous turn toward tribalism and authoritarianism?

Plus: practical advice on food, health, and why San Francisco’s collapse is a moral, not just political, failure.

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🕒 Topic Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
01:20 – Russia’s strategy and moral decay
12:50 – Gaza: morality, blame, and false equivalence
25:30 – Japan’s quiet decline and demographic stagnation
29:20 – GOP Racism and the death of individualism
39:50 – Tariffs and Trump’s nationalist economics
45:25 – JD Vance: the new face of populist immorality
1:04:15 – Food Advice: Rational diet, rational life
1:10:00 – San Francisco’s moral and political collapse
1:13:50 – Inflation, prices, and economic confusion

Audience Q&A Highlights
1:23:33 – Celebrating success and moral guidance from ARI
1:24:25 – Artificial eyes: when science meets philosophy
1:25:25 – Milei’s struggles and the peso collapse — who’s to blame?
1:27:15 – Could voluntary taxation ever work?
1:31:38 – Trump and tariffs: is there any rational alternative?
1:38:01 – Did interstates ruin trains?
1:39:57 – Is Milei better than Thatcher or Reagan?
1:43:45 – Did Milton Friedman really change the world?
1:44:54 – Trump: marketing genius or opportunistic chaos merchant?
1:47:23 – UK vs Argentina war — Objectivist view
1:47:53 – Dictatorship by uncertainty — the peril of arbitrary power
1:48:31 – Blue Jays or Dodgers?
1:50:49 – The Outlander series: Yaron’s 30-second take

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