Andy Puzder: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

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🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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How do you stay true to yourself in a world that demands conformity? Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead—centered around a talented architect who refuses to compromise his principles or conform to the expectations of others—examines whether we should uphold the “common good” if it means sacrificing our own self-interest. Michael Knowles is joined by former Carl’s Jr. and Hardee's CEO Andy Puzder to discuss this seminal work and its view of the collective vs. the individual. This video was made possible by a generous gift from The Peter & Judy Copses Foundation.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Book Club. I'm Michael Knowles and this month we are taking on one of the most controversial books of the 20th century.
0:19.0	A book that is loved and despised by all sorts of people, by the left, by the right, and to do that.
0:28.9	We will be here with my friend Andy Puster, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a senior fellow at Pepperdine
0:36.6	School of Public Policy, a wonderful advisory member of the Board of Prager You, perhaps you've heard of it, and most fun of all, the
0:45.3	former CEO of Carl's Jr. and Hardys.
0:48.0	Andy, thank you for being here.
0:50.0	My pleasure.
0:51.5	You picked up this book around the time that I first picked up this book.
0:55.8	Around the time that pretty much everybody first picks up this book
0:59.8	as a young man as a teenager and you love it.
1:03.4	Yeah I read the book and I have found my people you know it was like thank God for
1:08.0	this book I wonder where was where was this all my life.
1:10.8	Yeah I picked it up as a first year of college which distracted me from my
1:15.5	studies because I couldn't put the book down. It's such a great book.
1:19.3	So before we get into its meaning and its controversy and why it's still selling a
1:23.4	zillion copies today. What's it about? It came out in 1943 by In Rand who
1:30.2	it was her first major literary success.
1:34.4	This was a book that really kind of made her name.
1:37.1	And it set forth her belief in the creative power
1:42.4	of individualism versus the destructive power of
1:46.2	collectivism. And this is something that she understood pretty well. She
1:49.9	was born in 1905 in Russia. She was 12 years old when the Bolshevik revolution
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