Sept. 1, 2022  |  6 p.m.
Richland Country Club, 1 Club Dr, Nashville, TN

About the Event: AIER’s Bastiat Society program in Nashville, in partnership with the PERI at MTSU, will host an in-person event with Ben Bayer, Fellow and Director of Content at the Ayn Rand Institute. This talk will explore how the Covid pandemic put pressure on American politicians, left and right, to reveal their true core values, what it really means to act on those values, the fundamental problems with these values, and a rational alternative.

About the Speaker: Ben Bayer is a fellow and director of content at the Ayn Rand Institute. He teaches in the Objectivist Academic Center and gives talks and interviews for ARI. He writes and edits for ARI’s online publication, New Ideal. Bayer holds a PhD in philosophy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and among other positions, was a visiting assistant professor at Loyola University in New Orleans for seven years. His writing focuses primarily on the application of philosophy to contemporary cultural and political controversies.