2 January 2026, Livestream #74
0:00 Intro
0:33 Let the Super Chats begin!
How Super Chats work
5:38 First Super Chats!
12:09 My post; Super Stickers, Super Thanks, etc.
18:20 My Patreon and PayPal
26:09 Scheduling a chat with "Objective Ethics" (a chatter) on his channel
33:30 Correction to, or elaborations on, last stream
Ayn Rand's letter to Reverend Dudley is in the new edition of Letters of Ayn Rand
Columbus' first landfall was in the Bahamas, not at Santo Domingo
Emailing Objective Ethics
54:22 "Faith over reason" (pvmcorp)
Faith is belief without evidence
Love, the mind, and the heart; measuring love; reason and emotion
Emotions and the heart; Aristotle's view of the heart and brain
[...]
2:49:46 Call w/ Austin Wood
What is the Objectivist view of the good life?
What is faith?
5:22:45 Call w/ Holden Mitrione
The Virtue of Selfishness, The Objectivist Ethics, and Rand's passage on the is/ought issue
Our favorite writers
Outro
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2 January 2026, Livestream #74
0:00 Intro
0:33 Let the Super Chats begin!
How Super Chats work
5:38 First Super Chats!
12:09 My post; Super Stickers, Super Thanks, etc.
18:20 My Patreon and PayPal
26:09 Scheduling a chat with "Objective Ethics" (a chatter) on his channel
33:30 Correction to, or elaborations on, last stream
Ayn Rand's letter to Reverend Dudley is in the new edition of Letters of Ayn Rand
Columbus' first landfall was in the Bahamas, not at Santo Domingo
Emailing Objective Ethics
54:22 "Faith over reason" (pvmcorp)
Faith is belief without evidence
Love, the mind, and the heart; measuring love; reason and emotion
Emotions and the heart; Aristotle's view of the heart and brain
[...]
2:49:46 Call w/ Austin Wood
What is the Objectivist view of the good life?
What is faith?
5:22:45 Call w/ Holden Mitrione
The Virtue of Selfishness, The Objectivist Ethics, and Rand's passage on the is/ought issue
Our favorite writers
Outro
More topics and timestamps may be added to the description later.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
www.patreon.com/DanNorton
www.paypal.me/DanNorton11
#aynrand #objectivism #philosophy #debate
Should Trump fans be unfriended? We the Living, "open Objectivism," libertarianism w/ Holden; & more!
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Should Trump fans be unfriended? We the Living, "open Objectivism," libertarianism w/ Holden; & more!
3 December 2025, Livestream #68
0:00 Intro
2:00 Should Trump fans be unfriended (on Facebook)?
Trump voter vs. Trump fan
Be Facebook friends with Trump fans—or you're in an echo chamber (false alternative)
Isn't unfriending people what leftists do?
1:11:36 Doesn't Leonard Peikoff like Trump?
Being a fan of an aspect of Trump vs. of Trump as a whole
Being friends with Trump fans
Trump's first term vs. second term
Etc.
1:54:53 Call w/ Latent Prion re: ontology (the fundamental nature of being)
3:43:22 Call w/ Holden
Intro to Holden, his background re: Objectivism and economics
We the Living: Holden's reaction
Setting of the novel
Kira's first meeting w/Leo
The novel's ending and theme
Andrei, Kira, & Leo plot summary
Kira's ending
Movie version of We the Living
Andrei’s ending and whether one can be an honest communist
Ayn Rand’s emigration from Soviet Russia to the United States
Lying and prostitution in an authoritarian state
5:01:30 Murray Rothbard, Robert Hessen, George Reisman, Alan Greenspan
Reviews of Atlas Shrugged
Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, edited by Robert Mayhew
Catching up with chat
Alan Greenspan turned against Objectivist ideas
Richard Salsman, David Kelley, The Atlas Society, and "Open Objectivism"
Liquid Zulu, anarchy, libertarianism, and Objectivism
Did Ayn Rand originate the non-initiation of force principle? (the "non-aggression principle" or NAP); John Locke, the Levellers, Auberon Herbert; Robert Nozick
Harry Binswanger's letter to Robert Nozick and other work
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
Reading recommendations for Ayn Rand's nonfiction
Ayn Rand and Nietzsche
6:23:18 End of call
6:24:43 Break
Engaging w/ chat:
Giving Ayn Rand credit
6:32:23 ARI & I
Miscellaneous topics, including:
Randsday in Florida
Close to 1,000 subscribers
I don't consume much art
Outro
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www.paypal.me/DanNorton11
#aynrand #objectivism #philosophy #debate
The Dan Norton Show
2 January 2026, Livestream #74
0:00 Intro
0:33 Let the Super Chats begin!
How Super Chats work
5:38 First Super Chats!
12:09 My post; Super Stickers, Super Thanks, etc.
18:20 My Patreon and PayPal
26:09 Scheduling a chat with "Objective Ethics" (a chatter) on his channel
33:30 Correction to, or elaborations on, last stream
Ayn Rand's letter to Reverend Dudley is in the new edition of Letters of Ayn Rand
Columbus' first landfall was in the Bahamas, not at Santo Domingo
Emailing Objective Ethics
54:22 "Faith over reason" (pvmcorp)
Faith is belief without evidence
Love, the mind, and the heart; measuring love; reason and emotion
Emotions and the heart; Aristotle's view of the heart and brain
[...]
2:49:46 Call w/ Austin Wood
What is the Objectivist view of the good life?
What is faith?
5:22:45 Call w/ Holden Mitrione
The Virtue of Selfishness, The Objectivist Ethics, and Rand's passage on the is/ought issue
Our favorite writers
Outro
More topics and timestamps may be added to the description later.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
www.patreon.com/DanNorton
www.paypal.me/DanNorton11
#aynrand #objectivism #philosophy #debate
