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Ayn Rand’s fiction has been the most effective “gateway drug” to liberty, which is why CATO Institute founder Ed Crane deemed Rand the “all time greatest recruiter for the liberty movement.”
THE CHALLENGE: How to preserve and grow that recruiting role when daily reading of books among young people has fallen from 70% in the late 1970’s to 12% today?
The Atlas Society is meeting this challenge: pioneering artistic, technologically savvy ways of marketing Rand’s ideas to new audiences through a variety of vehicles. This includes animated videos, graphic novels, social media, and both virtual and live events.
Ayn Rand's philosophical works have been praised as presenting historic breakthroughs in thinking. At the Atlas Society, our scholars work to further develop this philosophy born in the mid-twentieth century. We present the empowering principles of Objectivism to a global audience, and offer those principles as a rational and moral alternative in the marketplace of philosophical ideas.
Our content and our world-class faculty of scholars promote the principles of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, set forth in such works as her epic novel Atlas Shrugged, and in her brilliant non-fiction essays. Objectivism is designed as a guide to life, and celebrates the remarkable potential and power of the individual. Objectivism also challenges the doctrines of irrationalism, self-sacrifice, brute force, and collectivism that have brought centuries of chaos and misery into the lives of millions of individuals.
The Atlas Society’s mission is to inspire people to embrace reason, achievement, benevolence, and ethical self-interest as the moral foundation for political liberty, personal happiness and a flourishing society.
We build on Ayn Rand’s works and ideas and use artistic and other creative means to reach and inspire new audiences. We promote an open and empowering brand of Objectivism; we welcome engagement with all who seek to understand the philosophy, and we use reason, facts, and open debate in the search for truth above all else; we do not appeal to authority or conflate personalities with ideas.
Nous le faisons par le biais d'une variété de programmes, dont les suivants :
L'Atlas Society a été fondée par David Kelley sous le nom de The Institute for Objectivist Studies en 1990. Dans sa déclaration lors de la fondation de l'Institut (publiée depuis dans The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand), David Kelley a appelé à un mouvement objectiviste ouvert, intellectuellement tolérant, caractérisé par un sens bienveillant et rationnel de la vie. Aujourd'hui, l'Atlas Society est au cœur de cette branche du mouvement. Tous les objectivistes et admirateurs d'Ayn Rand ne sont pas d'accord avec la vision du Dr. Kelley, et le mouvement objectiviste continue à être divisé contre lui-même par des différences et des débats intenses et souvent personnels. Dans cette section de notre site web, nous fournissons des ressources qui expliquent l'approche ouverte et bienveillante de l'objectivisme et qui fournissent des réponses aux critiques adressées à notre programme et à notre travail.
