The Latest Breaking News from Ayn Rand

There’s lots to learn on this week’s best podcasts, from the meaning of Grand Theft Auto and Ayn Rand to the trouble with Christ Church College, Oxford

Participants include Jonathan Adler, Richard Epstein, Christina Mulligan, and myself, among others.

Satanism is undergoing an identity crisis, caught between its individualist origins and a more justice-oriented contemporary incarnation. Are Satanists supposed to be radical social Darwinists? Or is there room in the religion for compassion?

Are successful businesspeople more like heroes or villains? In fictional accounts, one can find plenty of examples of each, from Charles Dickens's miserly Ebenezer Scrooge to Ayn Rand's rugged individualist entrepreneur John Galt. In F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan represents privileged old money, with its ruthlessness and…