Happy b-day, Ayn Rand! 🎉 Is it SELFISH to celebrate YOUR birthday when you could be helping OTHERS?

1 February 2026, Livestream #79 0:00 Happy birthday, Ayn Rand! Is celebrating YOUR birthday selfish? Reading update Slavery in the Spanish Empire Structure of the judicial system Miscellaneous Immigration Harry Binswanger’s view 47:12 Call with Ben Thorp Immigration Religion and self-interest What's new about Ayn Rand? Ayn Rand vs. Christianity Mother Teresa Love Christianity and violence in history Engaging with chat Mother Teresa (continued) Faith 1:58:04 End of call Back to engaging with chat Ben Thorp My YouTube revenue 2:11:51 When did you find Ayn Rand? Serenity prayer (Super Chat from Jeff) Cudababa's movie review offer YouTube previews when hovering over thumbnails My reaction to Shostakovich 2:36:50 Did we make any progress in the science of music since Ayn Rand's day? (Steven) David Berry, the "Rule of 2" (I mistakenly called him "Barry Wood" sometimes) Music and bodily motion Poll: In what order should I address chats? Engaging with miscellaneous chats 3:28:37 New subscribers in real-time!!! 3:42:02 I sing "Happy birthday" to Ayn Rand 3:48:14 Bobby ("Robert W") and his grandmother call in to sing happy birthday to Ayn Rand 3:52:49 Explaining some of the basics of Objectivism 4:08:47 Break 4:21:01 Thoughts on David Harriman? (Super Chat from Bobby) The Logical Leap and "Induction in Physics and Philosophy" "Objectivism through Induction" [...] Call with Jere Outro More topics and timestamps may be added to the description later. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ https://www.patreon.com/DanNorton https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/DanNorton11 #aynrand #objectivism #philosophy #debate