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Live from London (Sept 19, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show

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Live from London (Sept 16, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 153)
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Trump just handed the Red Sea to Iran's proxies — so why is Yaron Brook filming a documentary at Karl Marx's grave instead of talking about it?

Yaron Brook is broadcasting live from London — shooting documentary footage at Karl Marx's actual grave, at the original London Stock Exchange, and beside the statues of Adam Smith and John Locke — and he's not happy about what's happening back home. While he's been filming, the Trump administration has reportedly cut a deal letting Iran's Houthi militia choke off a global oil choke point and abandon Saudi Arabia entirely. Yaron calls it out for what it is: a strategic surrender that resurrects Iran from defeat. He also explains — bluntly — why he refuses to debate a popular anarchist YouTuber, why anarchism can never be Objectivism no matter what its fans call themselves, and why AI should face liability, not regulators.

Then he opens the floor: Trump vs. Hitler comparisons, whether rights are contextual, where altruism actually came from, what "FU money" would really change about his life, and what it means to become American.

Unfiltered, live, from London.

🕐 Main Topics
0:00    Why is Yaron filming a documentary standing at Karl Marx's grave — and who's profiting off it?
2:45    Inside the two documentaries: a critical film on Marx, and "why doesn't capitalism win the argument?"
21:47    Why won't Yaron debate anarchist YouTuber Liquid Zulu — and can you even be an "Objectivist anarchist"?
24:32    Is Trump handing the Red Sea to Iran's Houthi militia — and abandoning Saudi Arabia to do it?
30:04    Why a "deal with the devil" over the Bab el-Mandab strait could hand Iran victory out of defeat
~32:00    Should AI be regulated before it causes harm, or should liability law do the job instead?
~36:00    What actually is artificial intelligence — and why does the debate keep getting the definition wrong?

🎤 Live Audience Q&A
~40:00    Is comparing Trump to Hitler a serious argument or just lazy outrage?
~44:00    Is "cruelty is the point" a fair read of Trump-era politics, or a smear?
~48:00    Are individual rights absolute — or does context actually change how they apply?
~51:00    Where did altruism as a moral doctrine actually come from — and why does Yaron reject it?
54:26    What would Yaron actually do differently if he never had to earn another dollar?
~1:02:00    Is Germany's AfD surge a healthy revolt against failed politics, or something more dangerous?
~1:08:00    What actually makes someone American — a passport, or a set of ideas?
~1:14:00    Twenty-five years after 9/11, why does Yaron say the West still hasn't learned the lesson October 7th repeated?
~1:20:00    How can you get a scholarship to study with Yaron at the Academy of Ideas (AIU)?

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Live Sep 11, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 152)
9/11, 25 Years Later -- Did We Learn Anything? | Yaron Brook Show
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"We have the hijackers' names, their financiers, even the warnings — so why, 25 years later, can Washington still not say who attacked us on 9/11?"

25 years ago, 19 men killed nearly 3,000 Americans in under an hour. Today, American forces are still trading fire with the region that produced them, oil is over $100, the Strait of Hormuz is barely open — and Washington still cannot say, in one sentence, who the enemy is or what winning looks like.

Yaron Brook marks the anniversary by asking the one question nobody in Washington wants answered: did America learn anything from 9/11 — or just how to live with the threat instead of ending it? He names the enemy by name (Islamic totalitarianism, fountainhead Iran, financier Saudi Arabia), lays out the twenty years of warnings the country ignored before 2001, and shows how altruism — the idea that self-defense isn't a good enough reason to go to war — turned Afghanistan and Iraq into twenty-year sinkholes of American blood and money. He also tells the story of Rick Rescorla, the Morgan Stanley security chief who trained his people to survive the towers while everyone around him called him paranoid — the one hero of that morning who actually thought, judged, and acted.

If you think 9/11 was a settled story, this is the episode that reopens the file.

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Timestamps — Main Topics
0:01 — 25 years since 9/11: what we learned vs. what we never did
9:00ish — 20 years of warnings before 2001 that America ignored (Beirut, Khobar Towers, USS Cole)
~20:00 — "War on terror" was a category error — terror is a method, not an enemy
~28:00 — Why altruism, not incompetence, is the real reason we never named the enemy
32:03 — Iran: the fountainhead of every successful Islamist movement on earth
41:57 — We won the actual wars in weeks — then handcuffed ourselves with "proportionality"
44:31 — Nation-building in Afghanistan: installing rights in a population that never asked for them
~55:00 — Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi money machine and the BBC's new evidence on the hijackers
1:07:13 — Getting good at defense, at the cost of our own freedom (Patriot Act)
1:12:39 — Rick Rescorla: the one man at Morgan Stanley who thought, judged, and acted
1:16:20 — Verdict: did we learn anything from 9/11?

Timestamps — Live Audience Q&A
1:24:17 — "Should we even negotiate with illegitimate regimes like Iran?"
1:47:10 — "What's the strongest argument against religion itself?"
~1:50:00 — "Isn't the Patriot Act itself part of the price we paid for 9/11?"
~1:55:00 — "Was there really an imminent threat before 9/11 — and did we see it coming?"
~2:05:00 — "Qatar funds the Muslim Brotherhood and hosts a US base — how does that make sense?"

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Live Sep 9, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 151)
Iran; Canada; Netanyahu; UK vs Israel; Mertz vs AfD; DSA; AI; Tucker; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show

"If Israel got secret warnings before October 7th and ignored them, does that make it a conspiracy — or just catastrophically bad judgment? Yaron Brook says only one of those is true, and it should end Bibi's career either way."

Oil just blew past $100 a barrel, and the U.S. response to Iran is to sink empty tankers instead of destroying the missile launchers actually shooting at American ships. Trump just banned — not taxed, banned — Canadian beer, cheese, and motorcycles. And a new Haaretz report claims Netanyahu got a 45-minute warning call before October 7th and sat on it. Yaron Brook breaks down why the Prime Minister's guilt doesn't depend on that one phone call, why Germany's Merz is losing to the AfD because he won't say the word "Islam," and why Tucker Carlson is now platforming people who think algebra isn't real math.

Yaron Brook — Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and host of The Yaron Brook Show — brings reason, individual rights, and zero patience for strategic incoherence to today's news. 

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Timestamps — Main Topics:
00:00 – Cold open: Apple event, schedule, and why the tit-for-tat with Iran makes no sense
05:38 – Oil above $100: Iran's widening war and America's incoherent strategy
~14:00 – Trump bans Canadian alcohol, dairy, and motorcycles outright
~20:00 – Why Netanyahu must lose the next election regardless of the UAE-warning dispute
~27:00 – Merz vs. AfD: Germany's landslide and the word nobody will say
32:36 – Britain moves to ban settlement imports; Israel retaliates
48:17 – NYC DSA's paid co-chairs and socialist hypocrisy
54:22 – Anthropic researcher resigns over AI "extinction" warnings
1:09:29 – Tucker Carlson platforms a guest who says algebra is fake
1:19:00 – Good news: Mexico's homicide rate, human achievement segment

Live Audience Questions:
1:22:15 – "If AI replaces most jobs, does capitalism still work?"
1:28:40 – "Is Netanyahu guilty of negligence or something worse?"
1:35:10 – "Should the U.S. actually be able to ban imports from an ally like Canada?"
1:41:00 – "Is the AfD's rise proof democracy can't handle immigration, or proof mainstream parties are cowards?"
1:47:30 – "Does Tucker Carlson's platform make him dangerous, or just embarrassing?"

#Iran #Netanyahu #Israel #AfD #Tariffs #October7 #iranwar #AIRegulation #TradeWar #canada #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #AynRand #Objectivism 

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