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French Apologists; Ukraine; Gulf; Cronyism; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show

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We The Living Movie, Australian Premiere -- Conversation With Duncan Scott | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 171)
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Mussolini banned this movie. Goebbels demanded it be pulled. Eighty-four years later, major distributors still won't touch it. Why does Ayn Rand's We the Living still scare people?

Mussolini ordered every copy destroyed. Its producers hid the negatives in a basement and sent a different film to be burned in its place. Ayn Rand then refused to let anyone see it for decades. This is the incredible true story of We the Living.

Yaron Brook calls it the best movie ever made from an Ayn Rand novel. In this episode he talks with four-time Emmy winner Duncan Scott, who sat alone with Ayn Rand in a dark editing room and re-cut the film reel by reel to her exact instructions.

Fascist Italy took Rand's first novel in 1942 without her knowledge. Officials expected anti-Soviet propaganda. Instead, Italians saw their own lives on screen, with the shortages, the fear, and the missing freedom. The film became Italy's #1 box-office hit, and then it vanished. One of its stars joined the anti-fascist underground and hid American soldiers in Rome. Lawyers Hank and Erika Holzer spent two years hunting through Italy for the lost negatives. Now the film has been digitally restored, frame by frame, and it is touring the world, including a screening in Kyiv during an air raid.

The restored film is coming to Australia for the first time, with premieres in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane in February and March 2027. Duncan Scott will be there in person. Yaron and Duncan explain why a 1942 film about three young people crushed by a dictatorship speaks to today more loudly than ever.

About Duncan Scott: Duncan Scott is a film and television director and producer. He has more than 150 productions to his credit and four Emmy® Awards. He has worked with Woody Allen, Margaret Mead, Eric Clapton and Michael Caine. Much of his career has gone into projects that promote freedom. He worked with Ayn Rand to restore We the Living. He consulted on the Atlas Shrugged film series and on a stage adaptation of Anthem. He directs the Objectivist History Project, a nonprofit that is building a video history of the early Objectivist movement. Duncan is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and the Creative Council of The Moving Picture Institute.

🎬 Info and streaming: wethelivingmovie.com 🇦🇺 Australian premiere details: Australian Centre for Objectivism

Timestamps: 
00:20 Why this is the best Ayn Rand movie ever made 
04:22 Why this film hits harder in 2026 than in 1942 
08:17 How Fascist Italy stole Ayn Rand's novel 
11:17 Mussolini's son helped green-light it 
12:47 Editors hid dangerous scenes from the censors 
13:39 The star who joined the underground and saved American soldiers 
15:08 Italy's first epic and the #1 film of 1942 
16:38 Goebbels watches it and orders, "You cannot show this film" 
19:35 Ayn Rand sees the film for the first time 
20:19 The director who threw out the script and filmed straight from the book 
28:19 How a cold letter got Duncan the job of a lifetime 
34:18 Rand's cut: the subplots go, the three leads stay 
40:46 Where to stream or download it now 
46:46 New subtitles that are faithful to Rand's own words 
48:16 The artistry: the lighting, the direction, and Renzo Rossellini's score 
50:18 The story: Kira, Leo, Andrei, and a deadly love triangle 
51:47 Rand drew it from her own life in Soviet Russia

Live audience questions: 
52:30 Why did Criterion and Kino Lorber turn it down? 
53:00 Do 90% of buyers really download instead of stream? 
53:40 Will the score be released as a soundtrack? 
54:35 Is We the Living the best entry point to Ayn Rand? 

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France Riots; Ukraine; Kasparov on Israel; Iran; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 170)
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France is burning because everyone wants a bigger state, and the state is already broke. When the left, the right and the mob in the street all demand more from a government that can't even protect its own shops, what comes next?

550,000 people marched in France "for school funding." By Sunday, 1,500+ shops had been looted, Limoges city hall had burned down, and 1,000 police were injured. Yaron Brook explains why this is how the welfare state ends.

On this episode, Yaron argues that every faction in France wants more from a government that's already broke. Students, unions, fishermen, the far left and the far right all make the same demand. Debt is heading past 120% of GDP, and the bond market has noticed. Yaron's answer is zero tolerance for looting and no new handouts. He also takes on Trump and Vance for blaming immigrants. Paris burned in 1968 too.

Then Yaron turns to the Trump administration's pressure on Ukraine. Trump waived the new Russia sanctions days after signing them. The US is now buying Russian diesel. Ukraine says it got no US missile warning before a major strike, and Rubio blamed "a software program."

Next is Garry Kasparov's New York Times op-ed on Israel. Yaron agrees with Kasparov that Israel's founding compromise with the ultra-Orthodox threatens its future more than Hamas does. Yaron compares it to America's founding compromise on slavery, which ended in civil war.

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TIMESTAMPS
02:33 France riots: 550,000 marchers, 1,500+ shops looted, Limoges city hall burns 
11:29 The Yellow Vests return, and the anarchist wing takes over 
14:11 Trump and Vance blame immigrants
15:41 The antisemitism angle is easy to overplay 
17:20 France's bond market alarm
25:42 Europe is stagnating, and the far right is rising 
32:09 Trump is pushing Ukraine to surrender
33:32 The administration proposes dropping tariffs on 77 categories of Chinese goods 34:36 Kyiv gets hit, and Rubio's "software" excuse 
40:05 Rep. Fitzpatrick: the first Republican crack? 
44:29 Kasparov is right about Israel's founding compromise 
47:04 America's slavery compromise and Israel's Haredi compromise 
52:22 The draft exemption after October 7 
55:13 Israel can't stay half theocratic and half secular 
57:19 Iran: 40 days with zero tankers at Kharg Island 
58:33 Is Iran timing its Hormuz attacks to the US midterms? 
1:00:36 West Bank settlers
1:02:58 Temporary protected status (TPS) extended for 100,000 Ukrainians 
1:04:35 Anthropic's "public good fund" and Musk's SpaceX shares for kids 
1:06:17 Syria's new textbooks teach jihad 
1:07:04 Achievement: Wise and stablecoins undercut Western Union's 6% fees 
1:09:30 Starlink is winning flyers for United

LIVE AUDIENCE Q&A 
1:13:57 Can JD Vance win without Trump? 
1:16:21 How does a central purpose prevent "neurotic drift"? 
1:20:00 How does France survive constant riots? Where in Europe should you live? 1:24:51 More sympathy for Iranians than for the French? 
1:26:13 Is Germany's AfD a Nazi party? 
1:26:56 After the Yom Kippur War, did Israelis think the wars were over? 
1:27:40 Did the Enlightenment have a "missing link" problem? 
1:28:47 Why is Ted Cruz struggling to hire staff? 
1:29:38 Is the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) worth following? 
1:30:08 Did Trump betray MBS? And is Rupert Lowe friend or foe? 
1:31:43 What would an Atlas Shrugged prequel be about?

#FranceRiots #WelfareState #Ukraine #Israel #Iran #Kasparov #nihilism #Economics  #ForeignPolicy #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #ForeignPolicy 

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Fauda -- Review of the Netflix's Israeli TV Show | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 16)
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What does it say about the West that a Netflix thriller tells more truth about Israel and the Palestinians than most universities do?

Torture works. Revenge can be justice. And one line from a Palestinian father explains the whole Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos take on Netflix's hit Israeli series Fauda, all five seasons. That includes the October 7 episodes that left viewers in tears around the world.

Yaron grew up in Israel and served in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces). He explains why Fauda is the most realistic show ever made about undercover counterterrorism. It shows Shin Bet (Israel's internal security service) operators who speak Palestinian Arabic, smoke Arab cigarettes so the enemy can't smell them, and come apart from living two lives at once. No martinis. No glamour. Just chaos, which is what "fauda" means in Arabic.

Then the hard questions. Why does a 2020 season about a hostage rescue in Gaza look like prophecy now? Did the show help lull Israel into "the concept," the belief that power had tamed Hamas? Why is recruiting the man who raped and murdered a comrade's family as a double agent a moral outrage? Why does Yaron call Season 5's episodes 7 and 8 essential viewing for anyone who didn't live through October 7?

The live Q&A covers evangelicals turning against Israel, whether October 7 was an invasion rather than a "terror attack," Batman versus Iron Man, Shane, European food, and Yaron's plan for Capitalism AI.

Main discussion 
0:00 Intro 
3:15 Who the Fauda unit really is: Israelis who pass as Palestinians 
11:44 Living two lives destroys you (with a nod to Eli Cohen) 
15:00 War is not romantic: the real cost on both sides 
16:10 Why the villains carry the show 
19:02 Season 1: the hunt for The Panther 
29:47 Season 2: ISIS in the West Bank, and Hamas as a "Fatah in the making" 
34:17 Season 3: the "father of prisoners" and a prophetic mission into Gaza 38:53 Nobody wants Gaza, not Israel and not Egypt 
42:48 Season 4: Hezbollah, Molenbeek, and fake Lebanese road trips 4
53:36 Season 5: a unit traumatized by October 7 
1:04:00 Episodes 7 and 8: October 7 on screen 
1:16:47 When the state protects evil, is vigilante justice right? 
1:19:55 Yaron is pro-revenge: Israel's return to its old doctrine 
1:21:25 Real heroes: the cast and crew who fought and died

Live audience Q&A 
1:26:51 Why October 7 is a turning point for the whole West 
1:37:27 Why Middle East cafés are full and Chinese streets never stop 
1:43:30 Would the West change its mind if it saw October 7? 
1:46:36 How German leftists came to hate Israel 
1:48:46 How Israel stops soldiers being kidnapped, and the truth about the Hannibal Directive 
2:04:21 Did you fall for the killer's lie? 
2:06:24 Are pro-Israel evangelicals turning antisemitic? 
2:09:24 Are people too mindless for Objectivism? 
2:18:23 Is the opposite of love hate, or indifference? 
2:21:01 Does sad art get harder to take as you age? 
2:23:02 Why Batman beats every other superhero 
2:42:42 When Israel interrogated Yaron about Objectivism 
2:51:06 Coming up: the Suez Crisis

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Live Oct 17, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
Answering Capitalism’s Critics #4: Smarter Every Day-The PROBLEM with Capitalism | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 169)
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If chasing profit makes products worse, why did a YouTube engineer just make money by building a better one?

Smarter Every Day has 12 million subscribers. Its video "The Problem with Capitalism" has 2.9 million views. It is also wrong about how capitalism works, and Destin Sandlin's own business shows why.

In episode #4 of Answering Capitalism's Critics, Yaron Brook goes through Destin's argument segment by segment. Yaron chairs the Ayn Rand Institute and has spent decades defending free markets. Destin says that "pushing capitalism to the max" and putting "profits over people" make every product worse over time. Yaron argues that Destin's chain-mail grill scrubber proves the opposite. Destin saw that the products on the shelf were dangerous, built a safer one, sold it at a premium, and made a profit. Yaron calls that an entrepreneur at work, and he says that is the force that makes markets deliver better products.

Yaron takes apart Destin's whiteboard "profit pyramid." He tests it against Ferrari, Henry Ford's decision to double wages, and the huge pay packages AI companies offer top talent. He argues that share prices punish short-term exploitation because they are based on expected future profits. He answers Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" theory, the claim that dominant companies let their products decay once customers are locked in. He also argues that Destin's 100% Made-in-America rule made customers wait years and pay more to satisfy a moral feeling.
Destin is a great engineer. He leaves engineering behind when he starts talking about economics.

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Main topics
01:20 Answering Capitalism's Critics #4: why Yaron chose Smarter Every Day
04:12 The chain-mail grill scrubber and the 100% American rule
14:50 Destin's thesis that "profits over people" ruins products
27:02 The "Profit Prioritization Perambulator" whiteboard
41:41 The "evil CEO" model leaves out the customer
49:28 Producing overseas often raises quality, as Japan, Ford Europe, and Apple show
55:47 Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" theory against Google, Apple, and AI
1:09:20 Destin's own business disproves his model
1:23:04 The altruism hidden inside "it's an ethical problem"
1:30:34 The Costa Rica knobs: familiarity bias and "exploitation"
1:34:06 Israel Kirzner: entrepreneurs are alert to profit no one else has noticed
1:37:50 Made in America sacrificed Destin's customers
1:45:25 Next critic: The Entrepreneurial State

Live audience questions
1:48:24 Does capitalism need better storytellers?
1:49:41 Will Trump try to stay in office after 2028?
1:52:40 Flying cars, and will Europe ever accept air conditioning?
1:53:20 Is ugliness on the far left and far right a sign of inner hatred?
1:55:00 Has the free-market movement failed?
1:57:19 Is Destin a nationalist?
1:57:53 Does Destin even want to think?
2:00:12 Is Naomi Klein next?
2:00:23 What could go wrong in the midterms?
2:07:48 Was Destin missing economics, philosophy, or both?

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