Category Archives: Don’t Let It Go…Unheard

I am traveling and therefore unable to host the live show this week. I’ll return at the regularly scheduled time one week from today. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. If you haven’t already, I recommend either listening to last week’s podcast (here), or checking out my interviews with the Ayn Rand Center’s Yaron Brook (here) and Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer (here).

Later today I plan to write a blog post discussing the so-called “name game” regarding Islam. With respect to the current (unfortunately undeclared by us) war, do we refer to the enemy’s ideology as “Islam”? Or do we use a modified terms such as “Islamism,” “Militant Islam” or “Islamic Totalitarianism,” etc., etc.  This weekend I had the pleasure of speaking with Robert Spencer and Bosch Fawstin about it for a few hours, as well as attending a panel discussion devoted to the issue, and I’m looking forward to writing up my perspective and reading your comments.

You can listen to and download today’s episode here.

Topics discussed:

Why Herman Cain should not be called upon to prove a negative, or, 5 x 0 = 0

Frank Miller on the Occupy Wall Street “movement.”

What we learned about the GOP candidates from their performance in the debates this week, and what voting strategies we are considering for the 2012 election. If Mitt Romney is the nominee, will you vote for him? What about Cain or Gingrich, or some combination of the two?

Yet another terrible, likely unconstitutional provision of Obamacare. This one is worse, more fiendish, than anything Rand imagined for her novel, Atlas Shrugged.

Lots of lively discussion, both in the chat room, and from the callers. Thanks to everyone who joined in!

On Sundays I conduct a live webcast in which I discuss news and politics from the perspective of Ayn Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism. You are invited to get in on the discussion tomorrow, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Pacific Time.

Tomorrow will be our third live webcast on BlogTalkRadio.

If you join in live, you’ll have the ability to communicate with me and other listeners via text chat, which is provided on my BlogTalkRadio show page, and also by phoning in, either on your phone or via Skype (using Skype’s calling service, which unfortunately is not free, but it’s cheap). The advantage of this platform is that there is no registration required to listen to the show. As before, if you are not able to attend live, the recorded podcast will be available later Sunday evening or Monday morning, so you can download it and listen to it at your leisure during the following week. Links to subscribe to the show, via iTunes and other audio media platforms, are provided on my BlogTalkRadio show page as well. (Several episodes recorded on my previously used platform are still easily accessible on iTunes here, or by clicking on the “Don’t Let It Go…Unheard” tag at the bottom of this post.)

Here is the link specifically for tomorrow’s show.

Topics planned for tomorrow include: Does the sheer number of Cain accusers mean that we should think there must be something to the allegations? How did the candidates perform in the debates this week? Who is your favorite at this point? For whom could you tolerate voting? Is there yet another truly horrible provision of Obamacare, one that might also make it unconstitutional? What does it say about our culture that college students are more upset about a coach being fired, than about the sexual abuse he helped to cover up? And more…

I hope you can join us!

P.S. If you’d like to get an idea of my perspective on the candidates’ performance this week, check out my Twitter feed @AmyPeikoff, and this post about Mitt Romney.

UPDATE: We’ll also talk about Frank Miller’s blog post on Occupy Wall Street.

UPDATE 2: The live show is now over. Thanks to everyone for participating live, especially for the new callers! Those who missed it can find the archived recording here.