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'''Yaron Brook''' ({{ |
'''Yaron Brook''' ({{langx|he|ירון ברוק}}; born May 23, 1961<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/ybrook/info|title=Yaron Brook|work=Facebook.com|access-date=March 31, 2015|archive-date=January 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160111202455/https://www.facebook.com/ybrook/info|url-status=live}}</ref>) is an ]i-] ] writer who is the current chairman of the board at the ] (ARI), where he was executive director from 2000 to 2017. Prior to joining ARI, he was a finance professor at ], where he taught for seven years.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stewart |first=James B. |date=2017-07-13 |title=As a Guru, Ayn Rand May Have Limits. Ask Travis Kalanick. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/business/ayn-rand-business-politics-uber-kalanick.html |access-date=2024-01-03 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Yaron Brook was born and raised in |
Yaron Brook was born in ] and raised in ].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/You-dont-fight-a-tactic |title='You don't fight a tactic' |first=Orit |last=Arfa |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=July 12, 2007 |access-date=January 11, 2016 |archive-date=February 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213145907/http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/You-dont-fight-a-tactic |url-status=live }}</ref> His parents were ] ] from ]. When he was sixteen, a friend lent him a copy of ]'s '']'', leading him to embrace ].<ref name="ocregister.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.ocregister.com/news/brook-rand-institute-1884783-self-money|title=Atlas came to Irvine|work=The Orange County Register|access-date=March 31, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615164032/http://www.ocregister.com/news/brook-rand-institute-1884783-self-money|archive-date=June 15, 2008}}</ref> After graduating from high school, he served as a ] in Israeli ] (1979–1982) and then earned a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering in 1986 from the ] in ].<ref name="aynrand.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5151 |title=Yaron Brook |publisher=Ayn Rand Institute |access-date=August 18, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112025230/http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5151 |archive-date=November 12, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | ||
⚫ | == Career == | ||
== Academic and business career == | |||
⚫ | Brook became an associate of leading Objectivist intellectuals, such as philosopher ], and in 1994, he co-founded Lyceum International, a company that organized Objectivist conferences and offered distance-learning courses. In 2000, he left Santa Clara University to succeed Michael Berliner as President and Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute, which was then located in ]. In 2002, ARI relocated to ].<ref>{{cite news |title=Ayn Rand Institute to Move to Orange County |first=Vivian |last=Letran |date=June 7, 2002 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-07-me-rand7-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=August 18, 2009 |archive-date=October 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016032049/http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/07/local/me-rand7 |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
Brook began his career as a finance professor at the ] at ], a position he held for seven years and which won him awards of recognition. | |||
In 1998, he co-founded BH Equity Research with Robert Hendershott. BH Equity Management was a financial advisory firm. In 2019, BH Equity dissolved and BHZ Capital Management LP became the new entity.<ref>{{cite web |title=BHZ Capital LP |url=https://bhzcapital.com/about/#yaronb |website=BHZ Capital LP |date=March 20, 2022 |access-date=August 19, 2022}}</ref> | |||
⚫ | Brook became an associate of leading Objectivist intellectuals, such as philosopher ], and in 1994, he co-founded Lyceum International, a company that organized Objectivist conferences and offered distance-learning courses. In 2000, he left Santa Clara University to succeed Michael Berliner as President and Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute, which was then located in ]. In 2002, ARI relocated to ].<ref>{{cite news |title=Ayn Rand Institute to Move to Orange County |first=Vivian |last=Letran |date=June 7, 2002 |url= |
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Brook speaks and debates at numerous American universities, delivering seminars for businesses and corporations in the United States and abroad, and writing opinion editorials for leading newspapers and websites. Speaking venues include conferences, professional organizations, and community groups. His subjects span a wide range of current events and philosophical issues, including the causes of the financial crisis, the morality of ], and ending the growth of the state, each discussed with Objectivism at its foundation. In recent years, he has spoken to audiences throughout the world, including those in China, Australia, Brazil,<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmXDrm5Q-eQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/YmXDrm5Q-eQ |archive-date=December 21, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Anarchy and efficient law|date=December 10, 2010|work=YouTube.com|access-date=March 31, 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Argentina,<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zowty7CYl_c |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/zowty7CYl_c |archive-date=December 21, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Yaron Brook en Libertad Querida!|date=May 9, 2011|work=YouTube.com|access-date=March 31, 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Greece,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://arc-tv.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140217135747/http://arc-tv.com/yaron-brook-in-greece/|url-status=dead|title=美容専門チャンネル|archive-date=February 17, 2014}}</ref> Iceland, Bulgaria, Israel,<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iISAR1H3Lds |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/iISAR1H3Lds |archive-date=December 21, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Yaron Brook, Director of the Ayn Rand Institute at BGU MBA Program|date=June 13, 2012|work=YouTube.com|access-date=March 31, 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Guatemala,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newmedia.ufm.edu/aynrandcapitalism|title=Ayn Rand: Radical for Capitalism|work=UFM New Media|access-date=March 31, 2015|archive-date=March 11, 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140311021123/http://newmedia.ufm.edu/aynrandcapitalism|url-status=live}}</ref> and England.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGY3apqmY5Q |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/GGY3apqmY5Q |archive-date=December 21, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Yaron Brook – How to be a Rational Egoist|date=September 13, 2011|work=YouTube.com|access-date=March 31, 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> | |||
Brook was a columnist for '']'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.forbes.com/search/colArchiveSearch?aname=Yaron+Brook&author=yaron+and+brook|title=Forbes Search|work=Forbes.com|access-date=March 31, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215184307/http://search.forbes.com/search/colArchiveSearch?aname=Yaron+Brook&author=yaron+and+brook|archive-date=February 15, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> and his articles have been featured in '']'', '']'', '']'', and many other publications. A frequent guest on a variety of radio and national television programs, he is the co-author of '']: An Obituary for an Idea'' and ''Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government'', and contributing author of ''Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism.'' His newest book is ''In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance'', co-authored with Don Watkins.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brook |first1=Yaron |last2=Watkins |first2=Don |title=In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case For Finance |url=https://ari.aynrand.org/issues/government-and-business/capitalism/in-pursuit-of-wealth-the-moral-case-for-finance/ |website=Ayn Rand Institute |access-date=September 2, 2022}}</ref> | |||
== The Yaron Brook Show == | |||
On January 7, 2015, the day of the ],<ref>{{cite web |title=Yaron Brook Show: Sacrificing Landlords, Charlie Hebdo & Muhammad Cartoons, More (Relevant portion begins at 1:59) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfwUj37YOE&t=51s |website=YouTube |access-date=August 18, 2022}}</ref> Brook made his first-ever podcast and premiered ''The Yaron Brook Show''.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Yaron Brook Show |url=https://yaronbrookshow.com/about-yaron-brook/ |website=Yaron Brook Show |access-date=August 18, 2022}}</ref> | |||
The program does not have a set schedule. However, the program is livestreamed on many social-media platforms, approximately, four times/week. When Brook is home, scheduled programs are more predictably livestreamed. When Brook is on the road, scheduled programs are more intermittent. | |||
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Brook speaks at events hosted by private companies, student organizations and non-profits in America and internationally. | |||
Brook is a contributor, and frequent speaker at events, with The Federalist Society.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brook |first1=Yaron |title=Yaron Brook page at The Federalist Society |url=https://fedsoc.org/contributors/yaron-brook |website=The Federalist Society |date=October 31, 2019 |access-date=August 24, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Brook |first1=Yaron |title=Search results pages for 'Yaron Brook' at The Federalist Society |url=https://fedsoc.org/search?term=yaron+brook |website=The Federalist Society |access-date=August 24, 2022}}</ref> | |||
On September 27, 2017, at the Yale Student Chapter of The Federalist Society, Brook participated in an event named, "Income Inequality: Is It Fair or Unfair?".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brook |first1=Yaron |title=Income Inequality: Is It Fair or Unfair? |url=https://fedsoc.org/events/income-inequality-is-it-fair-or-unfair |website=The Federalist Society |access-date=August 24, 2022}}</ref> This debate is the most watched video, ever, on The Federalist Society's YouTube channel. | |||
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Through the years, Brook has produced many shows, on many types of issues.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brook |first1=Yaron |title=Search results page for 'Yaron Brook Show' at The Yaron Brook Show |url=https://yaronbrookshow.com/?s=Yaron+Brook+Show |website=The Yaron Brook Show |access-date=August 25, 2022}}</ref> Some of these shows have been made into series. | |||
In something of an answer(s) to Jordan Peterson's ''Rules for Life'', in April 2021, Brook made a show on his rules for living. The show was a hit and became the launchpad for a series. | |||
The shows are given unique titles, describing the program's topic. ''Don't Stop Moving'', ''Being Optimistic in a Crazy World'', and, most recently, ''Cultivating the Virtue of Justice'', are just some examples of what the series tackles. | |||
As of June 2022, sixteen podcasts have been produced for this series.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brook |first1=Yaron |title=Rules for Life series page |url=https://yaronbrookshow.com/wanted-group-show-sponsors/ |website=The Yaron Brook Show |access-date=August 25, 2022}}</ref> | |||
== Ingenuism == | |||
On January 19, 2021, Brook, along with Robert Hendershott and Don Watkins,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Watkins |first1=Don |title=Don's Writing |url=https://www.donswriting.com/ |website=Don's Writing |access-date=September 2, 2022}}</ref> launched ''Ingenuism''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brook |first1=Yaron |last2=Hendershott |first2=Robert |last3=Watkins |first3=Don |title=Ingenuism |url=https://ingenuism.substack.com/ |website=Ingenuism |access-date=September 2, 2022}}</ref> on Substack.<ref>{{cite web |title=Substack |url=https://substack.com/ |website=Substack |access-date=September 2, 2022}}</ref> To introduce themselves, the title of their first post was, "Progress at the speed of thought".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brook |first1=Yaron |last2=Hendershott |first2=Robert |last3=Watkins |first3=Don |title=Progress at the Speed of Thought |url=https://ingenuism.substack.com/p/coming-soon |website=Ingenuism |date=January 19, 2021 |access-date=August 27, 2022}}</ref> | |||
== Views and opinions == | == Views and opinions == | ||
=== Rational selfishness === | |||
Brook promotes the Objectivist ethical position that rational selfishness<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rand |first1=Ayn |title=Selfishness |url=http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/selfishness.html |website=Ayn Rand Lexicon |access-date=September 2, 2022}}</ref> is a moral virtue and that altruism<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rand |first1=Ayn |title=Altruism |url=http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/altruism.html |website=Ayn Rand Lexicon |access-date=September 2, 2022}}</ref> is evil. ''Yaron Lectures: The Morality of Selfishness a talk for Cheongshim International Academy''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brook |first1=Yaron |title=Yaron Lectures: The Morality of Selfishness a talk for Cheongshim International Academy |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QZ1JcfwRkY&t=1s |website=YouTube |access-date=September 2, 2022}}</ref> and ''Yaron Debates: Selfishness is a Virtue, Brook vs Epstein; Moderated by Judge Napolitano''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brook |first1=Yaron |title=Yaron Debates: Selfishness is a Virtue, Brook vs Epstein; Moderated by Judge Napolitano |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhcUwlACDJI&t=1s |website=YouTube |access-date=September 2, 2022}}</ref> are two recent presentations of this ethical position. | |||
=== Politics and economics === | === Politics and economics === | ||
Brook is an outspoken proponent of '']'' ]. In appearances on ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://search.cnbc.com/main.do?keywords=yaron+brook&target=video&x=0&y=0 |title=yaron brook – CNBC |publisher=Search.cnbc.com |access-date=March 31, 2015 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402171015/http://search.cnbc.com/main.do?keywords=yaron+brook&target=video&x=0&y=0 |url-status=live }}</ref> and several articles<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?news_iv_ctrl=-1&page=NewsArticle&id=5455 |title=Paralyzing America's Producers |first1=Alex |last1=Epstein |first2=Yaron |last2=Brook |date=October 22, 2002 |publisher=Ayn Rand Institute |access-date=October 2, 2009 |archive-date=May 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525235101/http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?news_iv_ctrl=-1&page=NewsArticle&id=5455 |url-status=live }}</ref> and speeches, he has defended the rights of corporations and businessmen and upheld the ] of capitalism. In a January 7, 2007, editorial in ''USA Today'', he defended multimillion-dollar CEO pay packages against the attempt by the government to regulate them.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070108/oppose08.art.htm |title=Pay is company's prerogative |first=Yaron |last=Brook |date=January 7, 2007 |work=USA Today |page=19A |access-date=September 18, 2017 |archive-date=June 29, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629105627/http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070108/oppose08.art.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> In a 2010 interview, Brook called the efforts of Democrats to raise taxes on multi-millionaires "totally immoral." He criticized ] for signing the ], which regulates corporate accounting practices.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0703/0703businessassault.htm |title=The cost of the 'ethical' assault on honest businessmen |first2=Alex |last2=Epstein |first1=Yaron |last1=Brook |date=July 14, 2003 |access-date=October 2, 2009 |archive-date=June 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605063142/http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0703/0703businessassault.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> He has also argued that ] are "unjust and make no sense ethically or economically."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/00/business/specials/brook0719.htm |title=Capitalism and Business Ethics: Yaron Brook, Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute |work=Washingtonpost.com |date=July 19, 2000 |access-date=October 2, 2009 |archive-date=October 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024211050/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/00/business/specials/brook0719.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> | Brook is an outspoken proponent of '']'' ]. In appearances on ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://search.cnbc.com/main.do?keywords=yaron+brook&target=video&x=0&y=0 |title=yaron brook – CNBC |publisher=Search.cnbc.com |access-date=March 31, 2015 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402171015/http://search.cnbc.com/main.do?keywords=yaron+brook&target=video&x=0&y=0 |url-status=live }}</ref> and several articles<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?news_iv_ctrl=-1&page=NewsArticle&id=5455 |title=Paralyzing America's Producers |first1=Alex |last1=Epstein |first2=Yaron |last2=Brook |date=October 22, 2002 |publisher=Ayn Rand Institute |access-date=October 2, 2009 |archive-date=May 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525235101/http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?news_iv_ctrl=-1&page=NewsArticle&id=5455 |url-status=live }}</ref> and speeches, he has defended the rights of corporations and businessmen and upheld the ] of capitalism. In a January 7, 2007, editorial in ''USA Today'', he defended multimillion-dollar CEO pay packages against the attempt by the government to regulate them.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070108/oppose08.art.htm |title=Pay is company's prerogative |first=Yaron |last=Brook |date=January 7, 2007 |work=USA Today |page=19A |access-date=September 18, 2017 |archive-date=June 29, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629105627/http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070108/oppose08.art.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> In a 2010 interview, Brook called the efforts of Democrats to raise taxes on multi-millionaires "totally immoral." He criticized ] for signing the ], which regulates corporate accounting practices.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0703/0703businessassault.htm |title=The cost of the 'ethical' assault on honest businessmen |first2=Alex |last2=Epstein |first1=Yaron |last1=Brook |date=July 14, 2003 |access-date=October 2, 2009 |archive-date=June 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605063142/http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0703/0703businessassault.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> He has also argued that ] are "unjust and make no sense ethically or economically."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/00/business/specials/brook0719.htm |title=Capitalism and Business Ethics: Yaron Brook, Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute |work=Washingtonpost.com |date=July 19, 2000 |access-date=October 2, 2009 |archive-date=October 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024211050/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/00/business/specials/brook0719.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
Brook is co-author, with Don Watkins, of the book ''Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Equal is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality |url=https://ari.aynrand.org/issues/government-and-business/capitalism/equal-is-unfair-americas-misguided-fight-against-income-inequality-2/ |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=The Ayn Rand Institute |language=en}}</ref> “What we care about is whether individuals are able to rise by merit—and the fact is that many of the policies the inequality critics say will improve mobility actually make rising by merit much harder,” they argue in the book.<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Book Argues ‘Equal is Unfair’ |url=https://news.wttw.com/2016/04/04/new-book-argues-equal-unfair |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=WTTW News |language=en}}</ref> | |||
On ], Brook has stated, "The government certainly has a role in regulating ownership of weapons", but he states that it is a "complex" issue to do with the ]. He is inclined to draw the line of prohibition between "offensive" weapons, such as ]s and ], and "defensive" weapons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peikoff.com/2013/03/18/ybrook-did-ayn-rand-ever-discuss-her-views-on-the-second-amendment-and-gun-control-what-are-your-own-views-about-what-restrictions-if-any-a-proper-government-would-place-on-ownership-of-handguns-a/|title=YBrook: Did Ayn Rand ever discuss her views on the second amendment and gun control? What are your own views about what restrictions, if any, a proper government would place on ownership of handguns and other firearms? « Podcast « Peikoff|work=Peikoff.com|date=March 18, 2013|access-date=March 31, 2015|archive-date=April 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404110620/http://www.peikoff.com/2013/03/18/ybrook-did-ayn-rand-ever-discuss-her-views-on-the-second-amendment-and-gun-control-what-are-your-own-views-about-what-restrictions-if-any-a-proper-government-would-place-on-ownership-of-handguns-a/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
⚫ | === Israel === | ||
In interviews<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 12, 2018 |title=Interview with Yaron Brook: Why Ayn Rand Still Matters |url=https://merionwest.com/2018/05/12/interview-with-yaron-brook-why-ayn-rand-still-matters/ |access-date=October 28, 2022 |website=Merion West |language=en-US}}</ref> and through his writings and podcasts, he criticized the ] and the ] and ] administrations for not abiding by free market principles and for enabling excessive government involvement in the economy. | |||
⚫ | On ], Brook argued that "Zionism fused a valid concern—self-preservation amid a storm of hostility—with a toxic premise: ethnically based collectivism and religion."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/You-dont-fight-a-tactic |title='You don't fight a tactic' |first=Orit |last=Arfa |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=July 12, 2007 |access-date=January 11, 2016 |archive-date=February 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213145907/http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/You-dont-fight-a-tactic |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
⚫ | === Islam === | ||
Brook has taught financial courses dealing with topics such as the Financial Crisis,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brook |first1=Yaron |title=Search results page for "financial crisis" on Yaron Brook's YouTube channel |url=https://www.youtube.com/c/YaronBrook/search?query=%22financial%20crisis%22 |website=YouTube |access-date=August 24, 2022}}</ref> the corporation,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brook |first1=Yaron |title=Search results page for "corporation" on Yaron Brook's YouTube channel |url=https://www.youtube.com/c/YaronBrook/search?query=%22corporation%22 |website=YouTube |access-date=August 24, 2022}}</ref> and many more. | |||
In 2018, a public event featuring Brook and ], a controversial ] known as "Sargon of Akkad", as speakers was protested by masked activists.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018 |title=Masked protesters halt campus event featuring Israeli speaker |url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/antifa-carl-benjamin-sargon-akkad-yaron-brook-kings-college-ayn-rand-institute-protest-1.460069 |access-date=2023-10-18 |website=The Jewish Chronicle}}</ref> Brook has claimed that "Islamic ideology" is not compatible with the moral values of the contemporary ].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cruse |first=Beth |date=2022-04-01 |title=Police called as protesters 'blockade door' to lecture |url=https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/police-called-university-bristol-students-6893038 |access-date=2023-10-18 |website=Bristol Live |language=en}}</ref> | |||
=== Foreign policy === | |||
=== Personal Life === | |||
Brook applies Objectivist moral philosophy to the question of ], particularly on the Middle East. He advocates an American foreign policy of rational self-interest that would serve only to protect the ] of Americans, as opposed to any form of government monetary aid, state-building, or spreading democracy.<ref name="ReferenceA"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005043238/http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reg_ls_1yrlater|date=October 5, 2013}}</ref> He has criticized the foreign policy of ] and other ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peikoff.com/2014/01/27/to-yb-is-obama-worse-on-foreign-policy-than-ron-paul/|title=To YB: Is Obama worse on foreign policy than Ron Paul? « Podcast « Peikoff|work=Peikoff.com|date=January 27, 2014|access-date=March 31, 2015|archive-date=April 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405010358/http://www.peikoff.com/2014/01/27/to-yb-is-obama-worse-on-foreign-policy-than-ron-paul/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
He advocates the withdrawal of US troops from Europe, and US withdrawal from the ] and the United Nations, calling the latter "one of the most immoral institutions ever created by man". He is ambivalent about the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peikoff.com/2014/03/06/to-yb-should-the-united-states-be-a-member-of-the-north-atlantic-treaty-organization-nato/|title=To YB: Should the United States be a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? « Podcast « Peikoff|work=Peikoff.com|date=March 6, 2014|access-date=March 31, 2015|archive-date=April 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403022703/http://www.peikoff.com/2014/03/06/to-yb-should-the-united-states-be-a-member-of-the-north-atlantic-treaty-organization-nato/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Brook called for an ] on ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peikoff.com/2013/07/25/ybrook-i-recently-read-an-article-that-urged-the-united-states-establish-relationships-with-north-korea-similar-to-vietnam-under-clinton-was-it-a-good-idea-then-is-it-a-good-idea-now/|title=To YBrook: I recently read an article that urged the United States establish relationships with North Korea, similar to Vietnam under Clinton. Was it a good idea then? Is it a good idea now? « Podcast « Peikoff|work=Peikoff.com|date=July 25, 2013|access-date=March 31, 2015|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402160522/http://www.peikoff.com/2013/07/25/ybrook-i-recently-read-an-article-that-urged-the-united-states-establish-relationships-with-north-korea-similar-to-vietnam-under-clinton-was-it-a-good-idea-then-is-it-a-good-idea-now/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Brook has taught foreign policy courses dealing with topics such as the history of the Middle East.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brook |first1=Yaron |title=Search results page for "middle east" on Yaron Brook's YouTube channel |url=https://www.youtube.com/c/YaronBrook/search?query=%22middle%20east%22 |website=YouTube |access-date=August 24, 2022}}</ref> | |||
=== Islamic terrorism === | |||
Brook argues that Islamic terrorists initiated a war against the West because they hate its culture, wealth, love of life, and global influence,<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVz4hsx0uns|title=Dr. Yaron Brook speaks at UCLA panel on Totalitarian Islam|date=April 13, 2007|work=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead YouTube link|date=February 2022}}</ref> and that they attack Israel because of the influence Western culture has had on it.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> He rejects the idea that Islamic terrorists attack Western nations because they support Israel or because of poverty or retaliation.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Brook claims that the West is not at war with terrorism but the ideology of ]. He repeatedly says that just like in ], the US was at war against not Japanese ] pilots or German tanks but the ideas of ] and ].<ref>{{dead link|date=March 2015}}</ref><ref name="youtube.com">{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZVNYH5aR9E |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/wZVNYH5aR9E |archive-date=December 21, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Dr. Yaron Brook – Israel and the West's War against Islamic Totalitarianism|date=July 13, 2007|work=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Brook claims that Islamic totalitarians are Muslims who wish to dictate every part of life from the teachings of Islam, taken to its logical extreme.<ref name="youtube.com"/> He believes that Islamic totalitarians want to organize their governments according to Islam and that they wish to spread a global Islamic government across the world, sometimes by using legitimate means but mainly by using physical force, terrorism.<ref name="youtube.com"/> Brook claims that the Islamic totalitarians repeatedly express that aim openly. | |||
Brook has taught courses on Islamic terrorism covering topics like the rise of totalitarian Islam.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brook |first1=Yaron |title=Search results page for "islam" on Yaron Brook's YouTube channel |url=https://www.youtube.com/c/YaronBrook/search?query=%22islam%22 |website=YouTube |access-date=August 24, 2022}}</ref> | |||
=== Morality of war === | |||
Brook has laid out a unique theory of the morality of war,<ref name="theobjectivestandard.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2006-spring/just-war-theory.asp|title="Just War Theory" vs. American Self-Defense|work=The Objective Standard|access-date=December 21, 2006|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121209103857/http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2006-spring/just-war-theory.asp|archive-date=December 9, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029155627/http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reg_ls_moralityofwar|date=October 29, 2013}}</ref> based on the ideas of Ayn Rand <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5138|title=Media Center|work=Aynrand.org|access-date=March 31, 2015|archive-date=October 29, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029203626/http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5138|url-status=live}}</ref> and ].<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoAWCwm-UXw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/JoAWCwm-UXw |archive-date=December 21, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Leonard Peikoff Interview about attacking IRAN|date=June 18, 2008|work=YouTube.com|access-date=March 31, 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> | |||
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Yaron has two sons, Niv and Edaan.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007 |title=Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax |url=https://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/222/222570926/222570926_200809_990.pdf |access-date=2024-09-14 |website=990s.foundationcenter.org}}</ref> | |||
Brook advocates supporting Israel, which he sees as a Western ally against ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://freemarketmojo.com/?p=3522 |title=An Interview with Yaron Brook (Part I) |first=Bevan |last=Sabo |publisher=Free Market Mojo |date=October 6, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122071126/http://freemarketmojo.com/?p=3522 |archive-date=November 22, 2010 |access-date=January 11, 2016}}</ref> Brook disagrees with many of Israel's policies, including its collectivist and religious influences, and its “self-sacrificial” foreign policy of giving its enemies land, money, and other goods.<ref name="ReferenceB" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1674 |title=Israel Has A Moral Right To Its Life |first=Yaron |last=Brook |date=June 23, 2002 |access-date=October 2, 2009 |archive-date=January 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100104181249/http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1674 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
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Native name | ירון ברוק |
Born | (1961-05-23) May 23, 1961 (age 63) Jerusalem, Israel |
Occupation | Chairman of the Board, Ayn Rand Institute |
Citizenship | American, Israeli |
Education | Technion (BS) UT Austin (MBA, PhD) |
Literary movement | Objectivism |
Notable works | In Pursuit of Wealth Equal Is Unfair Free Market Revolution Why Businessmen Need Philosophy NEOCONSERVATISM Winning the Unwinnable War |
Website | |
yaronbrookshow.com |
Yaron Brook (Hebrew: ירון ברוק; born May 23, 1961) is an Israeli-American Objectivist writer who is the current chairman of the board at the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), where he was executive director from 2000 to 2017. Prior to joining ARI, he was a finance professor at Santa Clara University, where he taught for seven years.
Biography
Yaron Brook was born in Jerusalem and raised in Haifa. His parents were Jewish socialists from South Africa. When he was sixteen, a friend lent him a copy of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, leading him to embrace Objectivism. After graduating from high school, he served as a first sergeant in Israeli military intelligence (1979–1982) and then earned a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering in 1986 from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.
Career
Brook became an associate of leading Objectivist intellectuals, such as philosopher Leonard Peikoff, and in 1994, he co-founded Lyceum International, a company that organized Objectivist conferences and offered distance-learning courses. In 2000, he left Santa Clara University to succeed Michael Berliner as President and Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute, which was then located in Marina del Rey, California. In 2002, ARI relocated to Irvine, California.
Views and opinions
Politics and economics
Brook is an outspoken proponent of laissez-faire capitalism. In appearances on CNBC and several articles and speeches, he has defended the rights of corporations and businessmen and upheld the virtues of capitalism. In a January 7, 2007, editorial in USA Today, he defended multimillion-dollar CEO pay packages against the attempt by the government to regulate them. In a 2010 interview, Brook called the efforts of Democrats to raise taxes on multi-millionaires "totally immoral." He criticized George W. Bush for signing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which regulates corporate accounting practices. He has also argued that antitrust laws are "unjust and make no sense ethically or economically."
Brook is co-author, with Don Watkins, of the book Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality. “What we care about is whether individuals are able to rise by merit—and the fact is that many of the policies the inequality critics say will improve mobility actually make rising by merit much harder,” they argue in the book.
Israel
On Zionism, Brook argued that "Zionism fused a valid concern—self-preservation amid a storm of hostility—with a toxic premise: ethnically based collectivism and religion."
Islam
In 2018, a public event featuring Brook and Carl Benjamin, a controversial YouTuber known as "Sargon of Akkad", as speakers was protested by masked activists. Brook has claimed that "Islamic ideology" is not compatible with the moral values of the contemporary Western world.
Personal Life
Yaron has two sons, Niv and Edaan.
Published works
Books
- Brook, Yaron. "Published Books". The Yaron Brook Show.
- Brook, Yaron; Watkins, Don (September 21, 2017). In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance (Paperback ed.). Ayn Rand Institute. p. 264. ISBN 978-0996010115.
- Watkins, Don; Brook, Yaron (March 29, 2016). Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality (Hardcover ed.). St. Martin's Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-1250084446.
- Brook, Yaron; Watkins, Don (September 18, 2012). Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government (Hardcover ed.). St. Martin's Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-0230341692.
- Ghate, Debi (April 5, 2011). Why Businessmen Need Philosophy: The Capitalist's Guide to the Ideas Behind Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (Paperback ed.). Berkley. p. 336. ISBN 9780451232694.
- Thompson, C. Bradley; Brook, Yaron (May 30, 2010). NEOCONSERVATISM: An Obituary for an Idea (Hardcover ed.). Routledge. p. 256. ISBN 978-1594518317.
- Journo, Elan (September 29, 2009). Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism (Hardcover ed.). Lexington Books. p. 268. ISBN 978-0739135402.
Other
- Corporate governance: a study of director liability, firm performance and shareholder wealth, University of Texas, Austin, 1994
- Shareholder wealth effects of directors' liability limitation provisions, Brook, Yaron; Rao, Ramesh K. S., Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, vol. 3, 1994, 481–497
- Terrorism in Israel, Yaron Brook, The Intellectual Activist, Vol. 10, No. 4, July 1996
- The gains from takeover deregulation: Evidence from the end of interstate banking restrictions Archived September 28, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Brook, Yaron; Hendershott, Robert; Darrell Lee, Journal of Finance the journal of the American Finance Association, {Malden, Mass. et al.: Blackwell}, vol. 6, 1998, 2185–2204
- Do Firms Use Dividends to Signal Large Future Cash Flow Increases?, Brook, Yaron; Charlton, William T., Jr.; Hendershott, Robert J., Financial Management, (Tampa, Fla. : Financial Management Association International) vol. 3, 1998, 46–57
- Corporate Governance and Recent Consolidation in the Banking Industry Archived June 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Brook, Yaron; Hendershott, Robert J.; Lee, Darrell, Journal of Corporate Finance: contracting, governance and organization, (Santa Clara U; Kennesaw State U), vol. 2, 2000, pp. 141–164
- Hype and Internet Stocks, Brook, Yaron; Hendershott, Robert J., The Journal of Investing, vol. 2, 53–64
- "Just War Theory" vs. American Self-Defense, Yaron Brook, Alex Epstein, The Objective Standard, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2006
- "The 'Forward Strategy' For Failure, Yaron Brook, Elan Journo, The Objective Standard, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2007
- Brook's article on CEO compensation in USA Today
- Brook, Yaron. "Yaron Brook Insights". The Yaron Brook Show.
References
- "Yaron Brook". Facebook.com. Archived from the original on January 11, 2016. Retrieved March 31, 2015.
- Stewart, James B. (July 13, 2017). "As a Guru, Ayn Rand May Have Limits. Ask Travis Kalanick". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
- Arfa, Orit (July 12, 2007). "'You don't fight a tactic'". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on February 13, 2016. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
- "Atlas came to Irvine". The Orange County Register. Archived from the original on June 15, 2008. Retrieved March 31, 2015.
- "Yaron Brook". Ayn Rand Institute. Archived from the original on November 12, 2013. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
- Letran, Vivian (June 7, 2002). "Ayn Rand Institute to Move to Orange County". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 16, 2012. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
- "yaron brook – CNBC". Search.cnbc.com. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 31, 2015.
- Epstein, Alex; Brook, Yaron (October 22, 2002). "Paralyzing America's Producers". Ayn Rand Institute. Archived from the original on May 25, 2011. Retrieved October 2, 2009.
- Brook, Yaron (January 7, 2007). "Pay is company's prerogative". USA Today. p. 19A. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
- Brook, Yaron; Epstein, Alex (July 14, 2003). "The cost of the 'ethical' assault on honest businessmen". Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved October 2, 2009.
- "Capitalism and Business Ethics: Yaron Brook, Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute". Washingtonpost.com. July 19, 2000. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Retrieved October 2, 2009.
- "Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality". The Ayn Rand Institute. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
- "New Book Argues 'Equal is Unfair'". WTTW News. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
- Arfa, Orit (July 12, 2007). "'You don't fight a tactic'". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on February 13, 2016. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
- "Masked protesters halt campus event featuring Israeli speaker". The Jewish Chronicle. 2018. Retrieved October 18, 2023.
- Cruse, Beth (April 1, 2022). "Police called as protesters 'blockade door' to lecture". Bristol Live. Retrieved October 18, 2023.
- "Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax" (PDF). 990s.foundationcenter.org. 2007. Retrieved September 14, 2024.
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