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Don Watkins

BA, Business Administration, 2005, Strayer University
Active: 2011-2022

Mr. Watkins is a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He is the author of RooseveltCare: How Social Security Is Sabotaging the Land of Self-Reliance and coauthor, along with Yaron Brook, of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government and Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality. (based on info from 2019 )

Presentations

Name
Presented
Media
Don’t Be Boring: Winning the Attention Game
Jul 03, 2022
Jul 03, 2022
ARCUK: Who Needs It
May 16, 2022
May 16, 2022
Don’t Serve A Cause Greater Than Yourself
May 09, 2022
May 09, 2022
On Allies: An Interview with Don Watkins
Mar 17, 2022
Mar 17, 2022
The Worst Ways to Spread Objectivism
Mar 10, 2022
Mar 10, 2022
How To Learn Anything
Mar 03, 2022
Mar 03, 2022
Can This App Save the World?
Feb 23, 2022
Feb 23, 2022
Don Watkins Q&A
Feb 21, 2022
Feb 21, 2022
How to be More Materialistic
Feb 17, 2022
Feb 17, 2022
Horror Movies are Good for the Soul
Feb 10, 2022
Feb 10, 2022
Falsifying Popper
Feb 04, 2022
Feb 04, 2022
Should Men Learn Game?
Feb 03, 2022
Feb 03, 2022
Vaush Says Socialism is Ineffective
Jan 31, 2022
Jan 31, 2022
Soccer: The End of America?
Jan 27, 2022
Jan 27, 2022
PragerU LIES About the Ten Commandments
Jan 24, 2022
Jan 24, 2022
Why Most Movies Suck
Jan 20, 2022
Jan 20, 2022
Conservative John Doyle HATES Capitalism
Jan 17, 2022
Jan 17, 2022
The Best and Worst of Self-Help
Jan 13, 2022
Jan 13, 2022
Elon Musk: Pay Your FAIR Share!
Jan 10, 2022
Jan 10, 2022
Should You be Nice to Marxists?
Jan 06, 2022
Jan 06, 2022
The ARCUK People of the Year Awards
Dec 30, 2021
Dec 30, 2021
The Matrix Resurrections Review
Dec 28, 2021
Dec 28, 2021
10 Books That Absolutely Need to Exist
Dec 20, 2021
Dec 20, 2021
Quillette Is Wrong About Rand
Dec 13, 2021
Dec 13, 2021
The Inhuman War on Abortion
Dec 06, 2021
Dec 06, 2021
"I Am Justice" by Don Watkins
Nov 24, 2021
Nov 24, 2021
Basic Principles of Literature
Nov 16, 2021
Nov 16, 2021
Agnosticism is a Cop Out
Nov 12, 2021
Nov 12, 2021
Don Watkins on Peikoff
Oct 14, 2021
Oct 14, 2021
Is There a Case for Fossil Fuels?
Oct 09, 2021
Oct 09, 2021
How to Vaccinate Yourself Against Media Bias
Oct 08, 2021
Oct 08, 2021
Mind Tools – Silicon Valley Examined 14
Oct 06, 2021
Oct 06, 2021
More Progress Faster
Sep 16, 2021
Sep 16, 2021
How to Read Rand
Sep 08, 2021
Sep 08, 2021
Innovation in Education
Aug 25, 2021
Aug 25, 2021
Why Progress Matters
Aug 05, 2021
Aug 05, 2021
Racism
Jun 30, 2021
Jun 30, 2021
Philosophical Detection
Jun 23, 2021
Jun 23, 2021
Inequality
Jun 21, 2021
Jun 21, 2021
Concept Formation
Jun 16, 2021
Jun 16, 2021
Requiem for Man
Jun 09, 2021
Jun 09, 2021
The Communication Bootcamp
Jun 01, 2021
Jun 01, 2021
Of Living Death
May 26, 2021
May 26, 2021
An Untitled Letter
May 19, 2021
May 19, 2021
The Goal of My Writing
May 13, 2021
May 13, 2021
The Moral Case Against David Attenborough
May 07, 2021
May 07, 2021
Apollo and Dionysus
May 05, 2021
May 05, 2021
Art and Sense of Life
Apr 28, 2021
Apr 28, 2021
Rand's "Philosophy and Sense of Life"
Apr 20, 2021
Apr 20, 2021
Man's Rights
Apr 14, 2021
Apr 14, 2021
Selfishness Without a Self
Apr 07, 2021
Apr 07, 2021
Judging Art
Apr 01, 2021
Apr 01, 2021
The Missing Link
Mar 31, 2021
Mar 31, 2021
Romanticism
Mar 30, 2021
Mar 30, 2021
Philosophy and Art
Mar 30, 2021
Mar 30, 2021
The Anticapitalist Mentality
Mar 29, 2021
Mar 29, 2021
Capitalism and Objectivity
Mar 28, 2021
Mar 28, 2021
The Moral Case for Capitalism
Mar 24, 2021
Mar 24, 2021
Doesn't Life Require Compromise?
Mar 23, 2021
Mar 23, 2021
Causality Versus Duty
Mar 17, 2021
Mar 17, 2021
The Metaphysical Versus the Man-Made
Mar 10, 2021
Mar 10, 2021
Government
Mar 10, 2021
Mar 10, 2021
The Psycho-Epistemology of Art
Mar 03, 2021
Mar 03, 2021
Individual Rights
Feb 28, 2021
Feb 28, 2021
Sex as Metaphysical
Feb 27, 2021
Feb 27, 2021
Happiness
Feb 26, 2021
Feb 26, 2021
What Is Capitalism?
Feb 24, 2021
Feb 24, 2021
Virtue as Practical
Feb 16, 2021
Feb 16, 2021
The Evil of Force
Feb 12, 2021
Feb 12, 2021
Philosophy: Who Needs It?
Feb 03, 2021
Feb 03, 2021
The Virtue of Pride
Jan 26, 2021
Jan 26, 2021
The Virtue of Productiveness
Jan 19, 2021
Jan 19, 2021
The Virtue of Justice
Jan 08, 2021
Jan 08, 2021
The Virtue of Honesty
Dec 11, 2020
Dec 11, 2020
The Virtue of Integrity
Dec 08, 2020
Dec 08, 2020
The Virtue of Independence
Dec 06, 2020
Dec 06, 2020
Values as Objective
Dec 02, 2020
Dec 02, 2020
The Morality of Sacrifice
Nov 29, 2020
Nov 29, 2020
The Virtue of Selfishness
Nov 28, 2020
Nov 28, 2020
Reason and Rationality
Nov 22, 2020
Nov 22, 2020
Man's Life as the Standard of Value
Nov 20, 2020
Nov 20, 2020
Values and Life
Nov 19, 2020
Nov 19, 2020
The Good
Nov 15, 2020
Nov 15, 2020
Reason as Individualistic
Nov 11, 2020
Nov 11, 2020
Reason as Man's Basic Means of Survival
Nov 08, 2020
Nov 08, 2020
Man as a Living Being
Nov 04, 2020
Nov 04, 2020
Reason, Skepticism, and Mysticism
Nov 01, 2020
Nov 01, 2020
Certainty
Oct 27, 2020
Oct 27, 2020
Reason, Emotion, and the Arbitrary
Oct 23, 2020
Oct 23, 2020
Emotions as a Product of Ideas
Oct 22, 2020
Oct 22, 2020
Knowledge as Hierarchical
Oct 17, 2020
Oct 17, 2020
Knowledge as Contextual
Oct 11, 2020
Oct 11, 2020
Objectivity
Oct 07, 2020
Oct 07, 2020
Wishing Trump Well: For and Against
Oct 06, 2020
Oct 06, 2020
Concepts as Objective
Oct 04, 2020
Oct 04, 2020
Unit Economy
Sep 30, 2020
Sep 30, 2020
Definitions
Sep 26, 2020
Sep 26, 2020
Concepts of Consciousness
Sep 23, 2020
Sep 23, 2020
Measurement Omission
Sep 20, 2020
Sep 20, 2020
The Unit Perspective
Sep 17, 2020
Sep 17, 2020
Free Will as Axiomatic
Sep 14, 2020
Sep 14, 2020
Free Will and Science
Sep 13, 2020
Sep 13, 2020
Free Will and Focus
Sep 12, 2020
Sep 12, 2020
The Perceptual Level as the Given
Sep 09, 2020
Sep 09, 2020
Consciousness Has Identity
Sep 06, 2020
Sep 06, 2020
The Validity of the Senses
Aug 31, 2020
Aug 31, 2020
The Metaphysical vs the Man-Made
Aug 30, 2020
Aug 30, 2020
Causality as a Corollary of Identity
Aug 24, 2020
Aug 24, 2020
The Basic Axioms of Objectivism
Aug 22, 2020
Aug 22, 2020
Who Needs Philosophy?
Aug 20, 2020
Aug 20, 2020
Increase Your Influence
Aug 04, 2020
Aug 04, 2020
Process
Jun 20, 2020
Jun 20, 2020
Books and Speeches
Jun 20, 2020
Jun 20, 2020
Fact/Feeling Integration
Jun 13, 2020
Jun 13, 2020
Motivation
Jun 13, 2020
Jun 13, 2020
BLM and the New ‘Struggle Sessions’
Jun 12, 2020
Jun 12, 2020
Context and Framing
Jun 07, 2020
Jun 07, 2020
Clarity
Jun 03, 2020
Jun 03, 2020
The Persuasion Challenge
May 31, 2020
May 31, 2020
Equal Is Unfair
Dec 02, 2019
Dec 02, 2019
Inside A Companion to Ayn Rand - Tara Smith
Feb 10, 2017
Feb 10, 2017
Inside A Companion to Ayn Rand - Adam Mossoff
Feb 10, 2017
Feb 10, 2017
How Books Propel a Philosophic Movement
Jul 01, 2016
Jul 01, 2016
Vilifying Ambition
Nov 08, 2015
Nov 08, 2015
Entitlement State vs. the Young
Jun 28, 2014
Jun 28, 2014