Live Sep 11, 2026 | Yaron Brook Show (Season 12, Episode 152) 9/11, 25 Years Later -- Did We Learn Anything? | Yaron Brook Show Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/bCVd8x6k9AA "We have the hijackers' names, their financiers, even the warnings — so why, 25 years later, can Washington still not say who attacked us on 9/11?" 25 years ago, 19 men killed nearly 3,000 Americans in under an hour. Today, American forces are still trading fire with the region that produced them, oil is over $100, the Strait of Hormuz is barely open — and Washington still cannot say, in one sentence, who the enemy is or what winning looks like. Yaron Brook marks the anniversary by asking the one question nobody in Washington wants answered: did America learn anything from 9/11 — or just how to live with the threat instead of ending it? He names the enemy by name (Islamic totalitarianism, fountainhead Iran, financier Saudi Arabia), lays out the twenty years of warnings the country ignored before 2001, and shows how altruism — the idea that self-defense isn't a good enough reason to go to war — turned Afghanistan and Iraq into twenty-year sinkholes of American blood and money. He also tells the story of Rick Rescorla, the Morgan Stanley security chief who trained his people to survive the towers while everyone around him called him paranoid — the one hero of that morning who actually thought, judged, and acted. If you think 9/11 was a settled story, this is the episode that reopens the file. 🔴 New episodes of the Yaron Brook Show stream live most weekdays. Subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss the next one. Timestamps — Main Topics 0:01 — 25 years since 9/11: what we learned vs. what we never did 9:00ish — 20 years of warnings before 2001 that America ignored (Beirut, Khobar Towers, USS Cole) ~20:00 — "War on terror" was a category error — terror is a method, not an enemy ~28:00 — Why altruism, not incompetence, is the real reason we never named the enemy 32:03 — Iran: the fountainhead of every successful Islamist movement on earth 41:57 — We won the actual wars in weeks — then handcuffed ourselves with "proportionality" 44:31 — Nation-building in Afghanistan: installing rights in a population that never asked for them ~55:00 — Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi money machine and the BBC's new evidence on the hijackers 1:07:13 — Getting good at defense, at the cost of our own freedom (Patriot Act) 1:12:39 — Rick Rescorla: the one man at Morgan Stanley who thought, judged, and acted 1:16:20 — Verdict: did we learn anything from 9/11? Timestamps — Live Audience Q&A 1:24:17 — "Should we even negotiate with illegitimate regimes like Iran?" 1:47:10 — "What's the strongest argument against religion itself?" ~1:50:00 — "Isn't the Patriot Act itself part of the price we paid for 9/11?" ~1:55:00 — "Was there really an imminent threat before 9/11 — and did we see it coming?" ~2:05:00 — "Qatar funds the Muslim Brotherhood and hosts a US base — how does that make sense?" #9/11 #WarOnTerror #IslamicTotalitarianism #IranRegime #Afghanistan #NationalSecurity #Iran #Netanyahu #Israel #October7 #iranwar #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #AynRand #Objectivism Like this episode? Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio. The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by [The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere) [Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/) [Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron) [Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) & (https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/) [Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com) [Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow ) [Sponsor the Show](askyaron@yaronbrookshow.com/) [One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ) Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook ) Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx) Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC ) Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? 🎓 Learn more about [Ayn Rand University](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support. Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.
