Chats der Atlas Society

Join Senior Fellow, Robert Tracinski, to discuss our current economic struggles, asking the question “what keeps us making the same mistakes about economics and Big Government over and over again?”

Join Senior Scholar, Dr. Jason Hill for Part 2 of his discussion on how America should conduct its foreign policy. Listen as he explains why energy independence from Russia is mandatory for the West and the USA, arguing that a moral defense of fossil fuels is required to prevent the current dependence on Russian energy.

Join Atlas Society Founder, Dr. David Kelley where he will define cognitive biases, discuss why we are vulnerable to them and offer ways to defend our minds against them.

Tracinski - A rising faction of the right blames "liberalism" and reason for all of our problems and advocates a return to traditionalism and nationalism. But what does such a traditional society actually look like, and what does the war in Ukraine reveal about the conservative "nationalist" cause?

Join Senior Scholar and Professor of Economics at Duke, Dr. Richard Salsman where Dr. Salsman will propose an alternative to America’s current foreign policy from an egoistic “America First” perspective where America does not act with “humanitarian” (altruistic) motives in service to other countries.

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 our Senior Scholar, Dr. Jason Hill for a special 2-part discussion on how America should conduct its foreign policy regarding the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Listen in Part 1 where Professor Hill will argue as to why America cannot act as he sees in an isolationist role, and must instead take center stage to defeat Russia, which he accuses of being lead by a maniacal, expansionist, former KGB thug, and war criminal whose goal is rebuilding Great Mother Russia.

Join Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski and his discussion on how the defense of property rights is central to the Objectivist cause for capitalism but is dealt with in a surprisingly cursory fashion in Rand’s philosophical writing. View Full Transcript Episod

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. View Full Transcript

Join Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski where he will explain Objectivism’s distinctive view on the role and power of art. Listen as Tracinski raises the question, if art is an “imitation of life,” what is music?

Join our Senior Scholar, Dr. Jason Hill for Part 2 of his special Clubhouse series on Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Sex.

Join Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski where he will discuss a key conservative objection to Objectivism stating that it is impossible to have morality without a religious foundation. Join us as Tracinski answers: Can we be good without God? and What is Ayn Rand’s argument for secular morality?

Join our founder, Dr. David Kelley where he will discuss how Objectivity is fundamental to Objectivism but it seems to be an increasingly scarce commodity. What are threats to objectivity and how can individuals improve the objectivity with which they approach contentious topics?

Join our Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski where he will discuss the threat of “woke” conformity, causing some to want to bring in politicians to have someone “on our side.” Why shouldn’t we bring government into the culture wars?

Join our Senior Scholar and Professor of economics at Duke, Dr. Richard Salsman for "Distinguishing Four Types of Equality" where he will tackle the question of "What is Equality?" and four schools of thought on the matter.

Join Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski for "The Problem of Expertise" where he will ask: How does a non-expert figure out how to rely on the advice of experts? How do we figure out who is a "real" expert and who isn't? How can we be "independent thinkers" if we have to rely on the knowledge of others?

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 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?