Ep. 5: Roderick Long interviews NEERA BADHWAR
Channel: Agoric Cafe
Date: 2020-08-08

Roderick Long chats with philosopher Neera K. Badhwar about backyard buffaloes, wild attack monkeys, Ayn Rand, airline deregulation, eudaimonia and virtue, paternalism and suicide, sociopathic grandmothers, child abuse, Aristotelean business ethics, 19th-century robber barons, charitable Objectivists, friendly Manhattanites, charismatic nationalist leaders, and national health care.  In more or less that order. 

Here are some links to items mentioned in the discussion:  

Neera K. Badhwar’s WELL-BEING: HAPPINESS IN A WORTHWHILE LIFE: 
https://www.amazon.com/Well-Being-Happiness-Worthwhile-Neera-Badhwar/dp/0195323270/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

Neera K. Badhwar’s FRIENDSHIP:  A PHILOSOPHICAL READER: 
https://www.amazon.com/Friendship-Philosophical-Reader-Cornell-Paperbacks/dp/0801480973/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

Neera K. Badhwar’s IS VIRTUE ONLY A MEANS TO HAPPINESS?  AN ANALYSIS OF VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS IN AYN RAND'S WRITINGS: 
- Print (crazy expensive):  https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Analysis-Writings-Objectivist-Studies/dp/1577240596/?tag=praxeologynet-20 
- Kindle:  https://www.amazon.com/Virtue-Means-Happiness-Objectivist-Studies-ebook/dp/B00ZPT6M0I/?tag=praxeologynet-20 
- Free PDF:  http://praxeology.net/Virtue_and_Happiness.pdf 

Bonus:  Neera K. Badhwar's contributions to Cato Unbound symposium on “What’s Living and Dead in Ayn Rand’s Moral and Political Thought”:  https://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/neera-k-badhwar

Bonus:  Neera K. Badhwar's OU faculty page with list of, and links to, some articles:  https://www.ou.edu/cas/philosophy/people/faculty/neera-badhwar

David Kelley’s TRUTH AND TOLERATION IN OBJECTIVISM (a.k.a. THE CONTESTED LEGACY OF AYN RAND): 
https://www.amazon.com/Truth-Toleration-David-Kelley/dp/173260374X/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

John Hospers’ “Libertarianism and Legal Paternalism”: 
https://cdn.mises.org/4_3_2_0.pdf 

Bonus:  David Gordon’s reply to Hospers: 
https://cdn.mises.org/4_3_3_0.pdf 

Luigino Bruni and Robert Sugden’s “Reclaiming Virtue Ethics for Economics”: 
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.4.141 

Burton W. Folsom Jr.’s MYTH OF THE ROBBER BARONS: 
https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Robber-Barons-Business-America/dp/0963020315/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

Ron Chernow’s TITAN: THE LIFE OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER SR.: 
https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Life-John-Rockefeller-Sr-dp-1400077303/dp/1400077303/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

MILLION DOLLAR BABY movie:   
https://www.amazon.com/Million-Dollar-Blu-ray-Clint-Eastwood/dp/B00FWPQ82C/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

THE SEA INSIDE movie:   
https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Inside-Javier-Bardem/dp/B00080Z53O/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

Ayn Rand’s WE THE LIVING:   
https://www.amazon.com/We-Living-75th-Anniversary-Ayn-Rand/dp/045123359X/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

Ayn Rand’s THE FOUNTAINHEAD:   
https://www.amazon.com/Fountainhead-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191153/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

Ayn Rand’s ATLAS SHRUGGED:   
https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191145/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

Ayn Rand’s CAPITALISM: THE UNKNOWN IDEAL:   
https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Ideal-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451147952/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

Jennifer Grossman’s “Draw My Life” videos: 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnHOyZsmJroz4PxOnLlOp58BohD953jQr 
[Eek, some of those are pretty cringeworthy. - RTL]
 
Roderick T. Long’s poem “Pericles Built the Parthenon”: 
https://aaeblog.com/2013/06/02/pericles-built-the-parthenon/ 

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