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.

Apr 17, 2025

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Batya Ungar-Sargon is a columnist for The Free Press, and author of Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy and Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women.

Mar 12, 2025

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Jennifer Burns is an Associate Professor of History, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the leading independent expert on Ayn Rand and the American conservative movement. She is the author of the biography Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right and joined our CEO Jennifer Grossman on February 14, 2024, to discuss her latest book, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, which traces Milton Friedman's life and his key role in creating a new economic vision and a modern American conservatism.

Feb 27, 2025

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Heather MacDonald is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including The Diversity Delusion, The War on Cops, and her latest book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives. As the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she joined our CEO, Jennifer Grossman, on August 30, 2023, covering how disparate impact analysis and race-mania are sabotaging the institutions of Western civilization, from the arts to academia to criminal justice.

Feb 6, 2025

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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.

Jan 7, 2025

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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.

Nov 25, 2024

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Robert Tracinski

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.

Nov 19, 2024

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What’s really holding back innovation? How do fearmongering and heavy regulation impact economic growth? Atlas Society Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski answers these questions, among others, in a recent article exploring Marc Andreessen’s techno-optimist manifesto and the reactions from both critics and “pro-growth” progressives.

Oct 28, 2024

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Robert Tracinski

Last April, 45 leaders of prominent religious and secular organizations met in Philadelphia to explore the need to forge a common cause to unite against the forces arrayed against freedom, individualism and capitalism. The purpose wasn’t to convert participants to either belief or atheism, but explore what principles we do share across the secular-religious divide when it comes to personal agency and responsibility, and the implications for issues like free speech, free markets, and freedom of association.

Sep 18, 2024

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