Remember the Tea Party Movement—the protest against the Obama administration’s confiscatory and collectivist policies? Dr. Helen Smith, a forensic psychologist and wife of Instapundit blogger Glenn Reynolds unleashed a firestorm of controversy with a pointed 2008 column popularizing the slogan “Going Galt,” a reference to Atlas Shrugged and a provocative proposal: “Should productive people cut back on what they need, make less money, and take it easy so that the government is starved for funds, or is there some other way of making a statement?” Smith continued the theme of withdrawing the “sanction of the victim” with her pivotal book Men on Strike: Why Men are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream—and Why It Matters, which argues that men aren’t dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development. They are instead acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands and providers.
Gad Saad is a leading public intellectual who attacks the “idea pathogens” that are destroying common sense. An impassioned advocate of reason and individualism, Dr. Saad argues: “There is no ‘black mind’ or ‘white mind,’ no ‘white male way of knowing,’ there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method.” His book, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense, examines how certain destructive ideas have managed to take hold in places like education and media.
Set against the glittering skyline of Chicago and the iconic dome of the Adler Planetarium, The Atlas Society hosted its 9th Annual Gala, honoring our 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Richard J. Stephenson. An entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Gateway for Cancer Research, and International Capital Investment Company, Stephenson captivated guests with stories from his extraordinary life -- including some unforgettable exchanges with Ayn Rand.
After watching the televised memorial for Charlie Kirk on September 21, 2025, I'm convinced that his martyrdom for his convictions -- and martyrdom is the only proper word for it -- is going to be transformational to the country, in ways people don't yet grasp or anticipate.
I’ve long loathed the phrase, “work-life balance,” as if work and life were two dichotomous realms, suggesting drudgery in one, and fulfillment and authenticity in the other. It’s a zero-sum game, in which the work self and the life self must regard each other warily, guarding against encroachment. Pete Worrell, author of Intention: Unlocking the Lifeforce Inside High-Performing Entrepreneurs, Pete Worrell similarly rejects this dichotomy with his provocatively titled chapter, “Work-Life Balance? Schmalance.”
Today an evil assassin robbed America and the world of a visionary founder, a fearless patriot, and the most articulate voice of his generation. In murdering Charlie Kirk, the killer also robbed a wife of her husband, and two children of their father -- and robbed the powerhouse organization Charlie built in Turning Point of its guiding light.
Being a successful entrepreneur takes more than strategy and execution, but draws on the deep, inner forces of intention, resilience, grit, and creativity. How to unleash these qualities is a question Pete Worrell explores in his latest book, INTENTION: Unlocking The Lifeforce Inside High-Performing Entrepreneurs. And it’s a topic that Worrell has had decades studying, having helped countless Entrepreneur Owner-Managers to build and ultimately capture the Enterprise Value they’ve tirelessly built, in his capacity as Managing Director of Bigelow LLC.
Why has trust in the “expert” class cratered? What explains the rise of populism around the world? Why do people view the once-vaunted Fourth Estate as little more than “Fake News”? Turns out author Martin Gurri anticipated these questions in his prophetic 2014 book, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium, which tells the story of how insurgencies, enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere, have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. Joining Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman on July 24, 2025, Gurri discusses the updated version of his book, which includes an extensive analysis of Donald Trump’s improbable rise to the presidency and the electoral triumphs of Brexit.
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."
At first glance readers might assume that Zoltan Cendes’ book, The Objectivist’s Guide to the Galaxy is a philosophical response to Douglas Adams’ cult favorite The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. But from the moment of ignition and liftoff, readers realize they’re buckled in for a much grander journey—exploring the Ultimate Questions of Life, the Universe, and Everything with both the curiosity and confidence of a scholar and engineer, deeply grounded in philosophy, physics, mathematics, and biology.
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.
Remember the Tea Party Movement—the protest against the Obama administration’s confiscatory and collectivist policies? Dr. Helen Smith, a forensic psychologist and wife of Instapundit blogger Glenn Reynolds unleashed a firestorm of controversy with a pointed 2008 column popularizing the slogan “Going Galt,” a reference to Atlas Shrugged and a provocative proposal: “Should productive people cut back on what they need, make less money, and take it easy so that the government is starved for funds, or is there some other way of making a statement?” Smith continued the theme of withdrawing the “sanction of the victim” with her pivotal book Men on Strike: Why Men are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream—and Why It Matters, which argues that men aren’t dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development. They are instead acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands and providers.
Gad Saad is a leading public intellectual who attacks the “idea pathogens” that are destroying common sense. An impassioned advocate of reason and individualism, Dr. Saad argues: “There is no ‘black mind’ or ‘white mind,’ no ‘white male way of knowing,’ there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method.” His book, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense, examines how certain destructive ideas have managed to take hold in places like education and media.
Set against the glittering skyline of Chicago and the iconic dome of the Adler Planetarium, The Atlas Society hosted its 9th Annual Gala, honoring our 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Richard J. Stephenson. An entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Gateway for Cancer Research, and International Capital Investment Company, Stephenson captivated guests with stories from his extraordinary life -- including some unforgettable exchanges with Ayn Rand.
After watching the televised memorial for Charlie Kirk on September 21, 2025, I'm convinced that his martyrdom for his convictions -- and martyrdom is the only proper word for it -- is going to be transformational to the country, in ways people don't yet grasp or anticipate.
I’ve long loathed the phrase, “work-life balance,” as if work and life were two dichotomous realms, suggesting drudgery in one, and fulfillment and authenticity in the other. It’s a zero-sum game, in which the work self and the life self must regard each other warily, guarding against encroachment. Pete Worrell, author of Intention: Unlocking the Lifeforce Inside High-Performing Entrepreneurs, Pete Worrell similarly rejects this dichotomy with his provocatively titled chapter, “Work-Life Balance? Schmalance.”
Today an evil assassin robbed America and the world of a visionary founder, a fearless patriot, and the most articulate voice of his generation. In murdering Charlie Kirk, the killer also robbed a wife of her husband, and two children of their father -- and robbed the powerhouse organization Charlie built in Turning Point of its guiding light.
Being a successful entrepreneur takes more than strategy and execution, but draws on the deep, inner forces of intention, resilience, grit, and creativity. How to unleash these qualities is a question Pete Worrell explores in his latest book, INTENTION: Unlocking The Lifeforce Inside High-Performing Entrepreneurs. And it’s a topic that Worrell has had decades studying, having helped countless Entrepreneur Owner-Managers to build and ultimately capture the Enterprise Value they’ve tirelessly built, in his capacity as Managing Director of Bigelow LLC.
Why has trust in the “expert” class cratered? What explains the rise of populism around the world? Why do people view the once-vaunted Fourth Estate as little more than “Fake News”? Turns out author Martin Gurri anticipated these questions in his prophetic 2014 book, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium, which tells the story of how insurgencies, enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere, have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. Joining Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman on July 24, 2025, Gurri discusses the updated version of his book, which includes an extensive analysis of Donald Trump’s improbable rise to the presidency and the electoral triumphs of Brexit.
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."
At first glance readers might assume that Zoltan Cendes’ book, The Objectivist’s Guide to the Galaxy is a philosophical response to Douglas Adams’ cult favorite The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. But from the moment of ignition and liftoff, readers realize they’re buckled in for a much grander journey—exploring the Ultimate Questions of Life, the Universe, and Everything with both the curiosity and confidence of a scholar and engineer, deeply grounded in philosophy, physics, mathematics, and biology.
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.