Yaron Brook

Yaron Brook (born May 23, 1961) is an American writer, commentator, podcast host, and former finance professor who is chairman of the board of the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI). Brook served as president and executive director of ARI from 2000 to 2017. He is the host of The Yaron Brook Show, a podcast program covering news, culture, politics, and philosophy from an Objectivist perspective. An advocate of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism and laissez-faire capitalism, he has written and spoken on political philosophy, economics, finance, and foreign policy. With Don Watkins, he co-authored Free Market Revolution (2012), Equal Is Unfair (2016), and In Pursuit of Wealth (2017).