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Atlas Hugged or Atlas Mugged???

It took a while, but Atlas Hugged has come to the attention of the Ayn Rand Institute! Here is an 84-minute conversation between two fellows of the Institute, Keith Lockitch and Ben Bayer, who tear my novel apart in their own minds. For me, it provides a window into their own minds. Their reaction is a testimony to the fact…

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Conversing with Evolutionary Leaders about Atlas Shrugged vs. Atlas Hugged

The Evolutionary Leaders is a group of spiritual change agents who share a common narrative of conscious evolution. Our Moment of Choice is a collection of essays by the ELs, including one by myself and Kurt Johnson that describes how the spiritual message of conscious evolution can be combined with "hard" evolutionary science. Of course, that's also what Atlas Hugged…

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Podcast with Nick Hanauer, who suggested that I write Atlas Hugged

This conversation with progressive zillionaire Nick Hanauer and David "Goldy" Goldstein on their Pitchfork Economics podcast toggles back and forth between Atlas Hugged and economic reform in the real world. I got a special kick out of this one because Nick is the person who suggested that someone should repeat Ayn Rand's act in the first place...Go Here.

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A deep dive into Atlas Hugged with Iona Italia

Iona Italia is a wonderful public intellectual who is active on Twitter (@IonaItalia) and her Two for Tea podcast. Her two-volume Our Tango World (1,2) can be regarded as literary cultural ethnography well worth reflecting upon from an evolutionary perspective. Our conversation uses Atlas Hugged as a base to explore in many directions, including the nature of fiction, novels of…

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Praise from Glenn Geher–a real-life Howard Head

Glenn Geher is an evolutionary psychologist at SUNY New Paltz who teaches evolution in the same way as Howard Head. He was the first person to replicate the EvoS (Evolutionary Studies) program that I started at Binghamton University and then we worked together to create a multi-university consortium with NSF funding. Our book (co-edited with Hadassah Mativetsky and Andrew Gallup)…

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101 Questions about Atlas Hugged

The inimitable Joe Velikovsky sent me no less than 101 questions about Atlas Hugged, which were great fun to answer. They cover the book, the writing process and what it all means for real-world change efforts. Thanks, Joe! (go here to download pdf file)--dsw **** Distinguished Professor David Sloan Wilson is an evolutionary biologist, anthropologist, author of many popular nonfiction…

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