Best known for his work on the front lines of the protests and pushback against draconian Covid lockdowns in Melbourne, Australia, Topher Field has been awarded three times by the Australian Libertarian Society, won 14 awards for his documentary Battleground Melbourne, and is the host of The Aussie Wire. He joined Atlas Society Jennifer Grossman on May 7, 2025, to talk about his book "Good People Break Bad Laws: Civil Disobedience in the Modern Age."
Gill Verdon is the founder of Extropic, a startup AI hardware company to meet the demanding power and computation requirements of generative AI. A physicist, applied mathematician, and researcher in quantum machine learning, Gill is also known under his online persona, @BasedBeffJezos, and for his creation of effective accelerationism (e/acc), which advocates for rapid technological progress as an ethically preferred path for human progress, emphasizing optimism and proactive efforts to shape a better future. He joined Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman for a special interview before his flight to Austin, Texas to attend our annual student conference, Galt’s Gulch 2025.
In an era where entrepreneurship is often romanticized with promises of quick wins and “work smarter, not harder” clichés, Jack Miller’s Simply Success: How to Start, Build, and Grow a Multimillion-Dollar Business the Old-Fashioned Way stands as a refreshing, no-nonsense antidote.
With the Australian federal election (declared for May 3, 2025), now in campaign mode, let’s look at a crucial aspect of Australia, which just about never gets a mention from the major parties.
The majority of Americans may indeed believe that government schooling is “the foundation of this country” -- and if they do, it’s yet another example of how badly the education system has failed them, because government schooling in the United States is a relatively modern phenomenon in the history of this country.
A counter-revolution is sweeping Western civilization—it is philosophical at root, cultural in transmission, and political in impact. It has unfolded over centuries, but only now reveals dramatic and unmistakable consequences. Most of us may not recognize it for what it is--erosion of the modernist worldview and ascendance of a postmodernist one. We speak of endless senseless shooting sprees, politically correct reporting, “woke” indoctrination in schools, loss of trust in reason, and noxious scientific fads. We debate the new varieties of collectivism, the politics of “identity,” racial and other quotas in hiring and admissions, cancel culture, rioting and looting as political protest, and the degradation of the university. These are symptoms. The malaise is philosophical: Our civilization of modernism is being sacked; we live in the twilight of its ideals.
Her three daughters grew up to be a CEO of YouTube, a co-founder of 23andMe, and a Professor at UCSF. Esther Wojcicki joined CEO Jennifer Grossman on February 22, 2023 to discuss the educational and parenting approach she calls TRICK: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness as explored in her book, How to Raise Successful People—and broadened that advice in Moonshots in Education: Launching Blending Learning in the Classroom.
Anthony Pompliano is the author of How To Live An Extraordinary Life, a compilation of 65 letters to his two young children (with his wife Polina, a previous guest on The Atlas Society Asks), drawing on lessons learned in his life as a soldier, entrepreneur, investor, and founder & CEO of Professional Capital Management. A well-known Bitcoin investor, Pompliano joined CEO Jennifer Grossman on December 4, 2024, to discuss his book and his thoughts as Bitcoin passes its historic $100K mark—and also shares what he loves about Ayn Rand’s literature and philosophy.
Is U.S. manufacturing on the decline? Why does America lag behind China in global manufacturing output? How has manufacturing employment changed, and what does it mean? Atlas Society Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski answers these questions, among others, in an article arguing that the narrative of U.S. manufacturing decline is based more on myth than reality.
Todd Rose is the CEO of the nonpartisan think tank Populace and former director of the Laboratory for the Science of Individuality at Harvard University. His bestselling books include The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness and Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment. He joined CEO Jennifer Grossman on October 3, 2024, to discuss his latest book, Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions, which draws on cutting-edge neuroscience and social psychology research to demonstrate how so much of our thinking is informed by faulty assumptions—making us dangerously mistrustful as a society and needlessly unhappy as individuals.
Best known for his work on the front lines of the protests and pushback against draconian Covid lockdowns in Melbourne, Australia, Topher Field has been awarded three times by the Australian Libertarian Society, won 14 awards for his documentary Battleground Melbourne, and is the host of The Aussie Wire. He joined Atlas Society Jennifer Grossman on May 7, 2025, to talk about his book "Good People Break Bad Laws: Civil Disobedience in the Modern Age."
Gill Verdon is the founder of Extropic, a startup AI hardware company to meet the demanding power and computation requirements of generative AI. A physicist, applied mathematician, and researcher in quantum machine learning, Gill is also known under his online persona, @BasedBeffJezos, and for his creation of effective accelerationism (e/acc), which advocates for rapid technological progress as an ethically preferred path for human progress, emphasizing optimism and proactive efforts to shape a better future. He joined Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman for a special interview before his flight to Austin, Texas to attend our annual student conference, Galt’s Gulch 2025.
In an era where entrepreneurship is often romanticized with promises of quick wins and “work smarter, not harder” clichés, Jack Miller’s Simply Success: How to Start, Build, and Grow a Multimillion-Dollar Business the Old-Fashioned Way stands as a refreshing, no-nonsense antidote.
With the Australian federal election (declared for May 3, 2025), now in campaign mode, let’s look at a crucial aspect of Australia, which just about never gets a mention from the major parties.
The majority of Americans may indeed believe that government schooling is “the foundation of this country” -- and if they do, it’s yet another example of how badly the education system has failed them, because government schooling in the United States is a relatively modern phenomenon in the history of this country.
A counter-revolution is sweeping Western civilization—it is philosophical at root, cultural in transmission, and political in impact. It has unfolded over centuries, but only now reveals dramatic and unmistakable consequences. Most of us may not recognize it for what it is--erosion of the modernist worldview and ascendance of a postmodernist one. We speak of endless senseless shooting sprees, politically correct reporting, “woke” indoctrination in schools, loss of trust in reason, and noxious scientific fads. We debate the new varieties of collectivism, the politics of “identity,” racial and other quotas in hiring and admissions, cancel culture, rioting and looting as political protest, and the degradation of the university. These are symptoms. The malaise is philosophical: Our civilization of modernism is being sacked; we live in the twilight of its ideals.
Her three daughters grew up to be a CEO of YouTube, a co-founder of 23andMe, and a Professor at UCSF. Esther Wojcicki joined CEO Jennifer Grossman on February 22, 2023 to discuss the educational and parenting approach she calls TRICK: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness as explored in her book, How to Raise Successful People—and broadened that advice in Moonshots in Education: Launching Blending Learning in the Classroom.
Anthony Pompliano is the author of How To Live An Extraordinary Life, a compilation of 65 letters to his two young children (with his wife Polina, a previous guest on The Atlas Society Asks), drawing on lessons learned in his life as a soldier, entrepreneur, investor, and founder & CEO of Professional Capital Management. A well-known Bitcoin investor, Pompliano joined CEO Jennifer Grossman on December 4, 2024, to discuss his book and his thoughts as Bitcoin passes its historic $100K mark—and also shares what he loves about Ayn Rand’s literature and philosophy.
Is U.S. manufacturing on the decline? Why does America lag behind China in global manufacturing output? How has manufacturing employment changed, and what does it mean? Atlas Society Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski answers these questions, among others, in an article arguing that the narrative of U.S. manufacturing decline is based more on myth than reality.
Todd Rose is the CEO of the nonpartisan think tank Populace and former director of the Laboratory for the Science of Individuality at Harvard University. His bestselling books include The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness and Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment. He joined CEO Jennifer Grossman on October 3, 2024, to discuss his latest book, Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions, which draws on cutting-edge neuroscience and social psychology research to demonstrate how so much of our thinking is informed by faulty assumptions—making us dangerously mistrustful as a society and needlessly unhappy as individuals.