# Greg Salmieri

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Freely Determined by Kennon M. Sheldon | ARI Bookshelf

https://youtu.be/ZhqJzc75qeI Podcast audio: A new ARI podcast series, ARI Bookshelf, gives you a window into ARI’s educational programs by showcasing our faculty as they discuss books of recent interest. This episode discusses Kennon M. Sheldon’s book Freely Determined. Panelists includ‮…

Why Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message Is So Wrong on Palestine | ARI Bookshelf

https://youtu.be/VaNHaT-xlOU Podcast audio: The new ARI Bookshelf podcast series gives you a window into ARI’s educational programs by showcasing our faculty as they discuss books of recent interest. This episode discusses Ta-Nehisi Coates's book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The‮…

Racism: What It Is and Why It Persists | Gregory Salmieri

https://youtu.be/RclwB5luKek Podcast audio: Ayn Rand denounced racism as “the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.” She also rejected as collectivist many of the measures being advocated to combat this evil, including what became the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On the sixt‮…

Self-Interest and the Good Life with Greg Salmieri

In this episode, we sit down with Greg Salmieri, senior scholar of philosophy at the Salem Center at UT Austin, to discuss ethical egoism—the theory that central to what makes an action good, what makes it right, what makes it moral—is that it benefits the person taking it. Salmieri argues that un‮…

Highlights from the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hGvQj376Uw Podcast audio: The 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference, held in Boston, Massachusetts, wrapped up two weeks ago, and now you can get a taste of the wide range of topics and speakers featured at the event in a new highlights video. The compil‮…

Exploring the Promising Horizons of 2026

The discussion today encompasses a variety of positive developments, including the emergence of new intellectual contributions and advancements in technology. We commence with a notable mention of Jason Crawford's impending publication with the Roots of Progress Institute, a project that promises ‮…

Conversation with Greg Salmieri - Making Sense of America’s Past and Present | Yaron Brook Show

Live February 9, 2026 | Yaron Brook Show InterviewsBonus Episode Season 12, Episode 4Conversation with Greg Salmieri - Making Sense of America’s Past and Present | Yaron Brook ShowAmerica’s crisis didn’t start with Trump—or Biden.It started with ideas. Greg Salmieri explains which ones shaped us—a‮…

Episode 154: Greg Salmieri discusses free speech, "cancel culture," and "academic freedom"

In the latest episode of Elucidations, Greg Salmieri (University of Texas) joins us once again, this time to discuss freedom of speech. Free speech talk has been in the air, on the internet, for the past decade. But what exactly is going on with freedom of speech? Do I have the right to criticize ‮…

Interview with Greg Salmieri on Texas Talks Podcast

Recently, Professor Greg Salmieri, an Objectivist philosopher, was interviewed on the Texas Talks podcast, where he discussed Ayn Rand’s ideas and their relation to the ideas of other thinkers, including Aristotle, Marx, and “libertarians.” He also discussed Rand’s influence on his own work and in‮…

Human Values and the Desire to Matter: Discussing “The Mattering Instinct”

In her recent book The Mattering Instinct, philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein argues that much of what human beings do is driven by a universal need to matter — to prove to ourselves that we are worthy of consideration. She argues that efforts to fulfill this need are responsible for a wide r‮…