# Iran; ICE; Jones Act; DST; Data Centers; Recycling; Dugin; PayPal; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show

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Published: 2026-07-16T00:43:19+00:00
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Live July 15, 2026 | Yaron Brook Show (Season 12, Episode 124) Iran; ICE; Jones Act; DST; Data Centers; Recycling; Dugin; PayPal; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show Iran Escalates, America Stalls, AI Booms—Why the Biggest Threat May Be Our Own Bad Ideas Is America making the right strategic choices—or is it being undermined by bad economics, bad politics, and even worse philosophy? This Yaron Brook Show connects the dots between the biggest stories shaping our future—from Iran and ICE to AI, energy, PayPal, data centers, and the ideas driving today's political movements. Yaron examines America's strategy toward Iran, the debate over immigration enforcement, why the century-old Jones Act continues to damage Puerto Rico and the U.S. economy, and how Congress manages to ignore exploding national debt while obsessing over daylight saving time. The conversation then shifts to artificial intelligence, New York's proposed data center moratorium, ASML's outlook, California's latest recycling regulations, and why abundant energy—not government restrictions—will determine America's technological future. Yaron also explores Alexander Dugin's strange celebration of "success," Stripe's reported interest in PayPal, encouraging new research showing declining dementia rates, and what these stories reveal about innovation, achievement, and the moral foundations of a free society. The live Q&A tackles CIA involvement in Iran's 1953 coup, the disturbing normalization of extremist politics, the future of the New Right, the economic lessons of Hong Kong and Singapore, the absence of Objectivism in universities, altruism's cultural dominance, entrepreneurship, philosophy, and much more. If you enjoy deep analysis of politics, economics, philosophy, technology, and current events from an Obj…

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