Podcasts

Join Senior Scholar Jason Hill for Part 1 of a special 2-Part Clubhouse series exploring Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Sex.

Join our Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski for a special "Ask Me Anything" where Tracinski takes questions from our audience and over 63K Instagram followers on Objectivism, foreign policy, politics, culture, and music.

Join Senior Scholar and Professor of economics at Duke, Dr. Richard Salsman for a special "Ask Me Anything" event where Dr. Salsman answers your questions on Objectivism, monetary policy, politics, and more.

Join The Atlas Society Senior Scholar Dr. Stephen Hicks and Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski with host and Student Programs Manager Abbie Berringer for an Objectivist perspective on the war between Russia and Ukraine on the 94th episode of The Atlas Society Asks.

Join Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski for his topic "The Ethics of Protest" where he will discuss: When is political power justified, and what kind of protest is justified in response to what kind of grievance? Is there a principled answer, and what are the principles behind it?

Join CEO Jennifer Grossman and Senior Scholar Dr. Jason Hill for a special "Ask Me Anything" discussion where Professor Hill will be fielding questions from the audience and choosing a few questions submitted every week by our over 63,000 followers on Instagram.

Join our founder, Dr. David Kelley for a special "Ask Me Anything" discussion where David Kelley will be taking questions from YOU and our 63K Instagram followers on philosophy, politics, Objectivism, and more.

Les banques centrales, en tant qu'émetteurs monopolistiques de monnaie fiduciaire (obligatoire) basée sur l'État, opèrent non pas pour aider les économies, mais pour aider les gouvernements fiscalement prodigues à se financer à bon marché et subrepticement. Récemment, en réponse à la propagation (et à la menace) des crypto-monnaies, les banques centrales ont poursuivi leurs projets d'émission de monnaie fiduciaire sous forme numérique. Selon la BRI, 86 % d'entre elles étudient activement les monnaies numériques de banque centrale (MNC), 60 % en font l'expérience et 14 % ont des projets pilotes. Les partisans des CBDC affirment qu'elles aideront les banques centrales à mieux gérer le système de paiement, l'inflation et l'économie. Mais des motifs malveillants sont également probables, en rapport avec la "théorie monétaire moderne" et des moyens plus directs de financer des gouvernements prodigues.

Join The Atlas Society's CEO, Jennifer Grossman, for a conversation with the co-founder of the Reason Foundation, Robert "Bob" Poole. Listen as the two discuss Biden’s infrastructure plan, innovations in transportation, the future of privatization, and of course their shared love of Ayn Rand -- and Robert Heinlein. All this and more on the 93rd episode of The Atlas Society Asks.

Join Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski as he presents “The Pandemic: Is There Any End in Sight?” where he will talk about the receding Omicron wave and ask: Is the COVID pandemic finally ending? What does an end to the pandemic even look like? What should be dismantled, and what should we have done better?

Join our Senior Scholar and Professor of economics at Duke, Dr. Richard Salsman for "Is Objectivism a religion" where he will discuss faith vs reason, dogmatism vs skepticism, and closed vs open Objectivism. Be sure to join in with your questions and thoughts as Salsman also discusses Ayn Rand on atheism and religion as a "primitive form of philosophy."

The Atlas Society Current Events Panel: Join The Atlas Society Founder, Dr. David Kelley, and Senior Scholar, Dr. Richard Salsman, with host Abbie Berringer to discuss the Canadian Trucker protests and the threat of war between Russia and Ukraine. All this on the 92nd episode of The Atlas Society Asks.

Join our Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski for "The Road to Etchasketchistan" where he asks the question: With the specter of war haunting Europe again, what should be America's current versions of "containment" or "détente" when dealing with authoritarian powers?

Join CEO Jennifer Grossman and Senior Scholar Dr. Jason Hill for a special "Ask Me Anything" discussion where Professor Hill will be fielding questions from the audience and choosing a few questions submitted every week by our over 63,000 followers on Instagram.

Join The Atlas Society's CEO, Jennifer Grossman, for a conversation with journalist and senior editor for Reason Magazine Robby Soave, on the 91st episode of The Atlas Society Asks. Listen as they discuss Soave's books "Tech Panic: Why We Shouldn’t Fear Facebook and the Future" and "Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump." With the debate around whether the government should "smash" big tech platforms with regulations and anti-trust busts, listen as these two discuss why ultimately the government should just leave tech platforms alone.

Join our Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski as he presents “Is ‘Wokeness’ Overblown?” and discusses how some who acknowledge the problems with "wokeness" also argue that its threat has been overblown and that it is not as common or dominant as its critics claim. Listen as Tracinski explores this perspective and whether or not that seems to be the case.

Join The Atlas Society's CEO, Jennifer Grossman, for a conversation with author, essayist, and journalist Ashley Rindsberg on the 90th episode of The Atlas Society Asks. Listen as they discuss his book "The Gray Lady Winked," which presents historical examples of how the New York Times radically altered people's perception of history through the use of misreporting facts.

Join our Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski as he presents "What is Human Nature?" and covers the questions: What is "human nature"? Is it the opposite of having a "blank slate"? Does it doom us to barbarism or irrationality? Is it something that has to be, or can be, overcome? And why does it matter?

Join CEO Jennifer Grossman and our founder, David Kelley, Ph.D. as they discuss the distinction between “Facts vs. Opinion” at an epistemological level.

Dans cette session spéciale co-organisée par l'Atlas Society Senior Scholar, Dr. Richard Salsman discute du séminaire mensuel Morals & Markets : Les crypto-monnaies sont-elles authentiques ou au contraire frauduleuses ? Quel rôle ont-elles joué dans l'économie jusqu'à présent et comment pourraient-elles influencer l'avenir ? Qu'est-ce qui explique leur attrait ? Quels sont leurs principaux risques et pourraient-ils se propager comme une contagion à l'échelle mondiale ? Les crypto-monnaies diffèrent-elles matériellement (Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, USD Coin) et, dans l'affirmative, pourquoi cela peut-il avoir de l'importance ? Le Salvador a désigné le bitcoin comme monnaie légale, tandis que d'autres États (la Chine) sont hostiles aux crypto-monnaies. Celles-ci constituent-elles une alternative aux monnaies fiduciaires gouvernementales ou plutôt un modèle possible de monnaies numériques publiques bien gérées ? avec Jack Kriesel, étudiant en économie à l'université Duke et rédacteur pour Bitcoin Magazine. Jack, anciennement opposant au bitcoin, est devenu l'un de ses plus fervents défenseurs ! Écoutez son point de vue lors des échanges avec le Dr Salsman et les participants à la session.

Join The Atlas Society's CEO, Jennifer Grossman, for a conversation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad on the 89th episode of The Atlas Society Asks. Listen as the two discuss Amjad's early fascination for computers while living in Jordan and about his recently viral Twitter thread crediting his success to ten things about the American entrepreneurial experience, as covered by Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal.