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Free Radical Interview with Nathaniel Branden |
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Free Radical's Alec Mouhibian interviews Nathaniel Branden.
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Full Context Interview with Nathaniel Branden |
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The following interview with Nathaniel Branden, conducted by Karen Reedstrom, appeared in two parts in the September and October issues of Full Context, an Objectivist newsletter. We are very grateful for their permission to reproduce this interview here. In the interests of greater clarity, the interview has been slightly edited for publication on the web.
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Interview with Nathaniel Branden by C-SPAN |
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Nathaniel Branden talks about Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand with C-SPAN. Air date: July 2, 1989.
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Question and Answers: 12 April 1998 |
Rodney Rawlings asks:
There was a time when you said you regretted ever publishing “Who Is Ayn Rand”? Has your attitude toward that book changed?
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Question and Answers: 31 May 1998 |
Lawrence Kennon asks:
In your discussions with Ayn Rand, did she ever indicate whether she agreed with the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms? How would that be compatible with her view that government properly "holds a monopoly on the legal use of physical force"?
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Questions and Answers: 10 May 1998 |
Nathan Koenig asks:
Since libertarianism intimately connects to self-responsibility, and self-responsibility intimately connects to self-esteem, does it follow that all high self-esteem individuals are libertarians?
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Questions and Answers: 12 July 1998 |
Norman Lalonde asks:
You write that “the will to be efficacious is the refusal to identify your ego or self with momentary feelings of inadequacy or defeat.” With what should we properly identify ego or self?
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Questions and Answers: 13 Dec 1998 |
John A. Palchak asks:
You have previously discussed your reasons for writing Judgment Day. Would you be willing to tell us your reasons for publishing a new revised edition of your memoir with a changed title?
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Questions and Answers: 14 June 1998 |
Neil Gibson asks:
Can one draw valid conclusions about Chemistry from studying Art? No, of course not. Can one draw valid conclusions about Mathematics from studying English? Again, the answer is no. Then how can one draw valid conclusions about Ethics from studying Metaphysics? Isn’t this a fatal flaw in the Objectivist ethics?
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Questions and Answers: 16 June 2000 |
Joshua Zader asks:
What were Ayn Rand’s contributions to psychology?
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