This is an interview by Stefan Molyneux with Danish scientist Helmuth Nyborg. The subject is genetics, heredity and race and gender differences. This is an excellent introduction to what hereditarian arguments are and the implications for Western Civilization. The future looks absolutely terrifying for European people. Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' was the collapse of an all white civilization which in hindsight was somewhat unrealistic. But what we are in store for is the collapse of industrial civilization in the context of racial displacement. Imagine the ending of 'AS' but with large scale racial war. And all of this is an inevitable outgrowth of genetic differences between the races (and genders).
Now I am not saying that the individual liberty movement is bad or doomed. But what I am saying is that the massive wave of legitimate science is showing that there is significant intra-species variation among humans; and that this has consequences for politics and culture. Objectivism will be an historical footnote if it does not start taking this into account. Everyone who aims at being a "new intellectual" needs to listen to this interview and really wrestle with the implications of what is being discussed.
All variants of libertarianism will have no future unless they understand that there are genetic requirements for a liberty oriented culture. The liberty software needs the right hardware for it to function. Objectivism in particular needs to purge itself of the racial egalitarianism it has adopted (largely the outgrowth of latent egalitarianism in Rand's ideas due to her knowing nothing about population genetics and evolutionary biology) and ground itself in biologic science. Until then it will NEVER "capture the culture".
I say all this out of love not malice.