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David has just completed a short memoir covering his lifelong interest in biology, evolution, science in general, and what it was like growing up the son of one of America's most famous novelists. Download a PDF copy from our special download page.

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I’m glad that my novel Atlas Hugged has come to the attention of The Ayn Rand Institute via Ben Bayer and Keith Lockitch, including their video conversation and Ben’s comment on my Nautilus article I have Come to Bury Ayn Rand. Far from succumbing to a war of words, I hope to engage Ben, Keith, and others at the ARI…

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This article published in Nautilus magazine, titled "I Have Come to Bury Ayn Rand", has received over 40K views. That's what a naughty title gets you! The article owes a lot to the shaping influence of editor Brian Gallagher, who encouraged me to write it in the form of a memoir.  

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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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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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Tony Biglan is an amazing real-world change agent, as you can discover from his books The Nurture Effect and Rebooting Capitalism, or by checking out his nonprofit organization Values to Action. Here is his review of Atlas Hugged on Medium.com. I work closely with Tony and you can work with both of us through Values to Action and my own…

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In Atlas Hugged, the mantra of the New Objectivist Movement is "Change! Change! Change!" This is based on very effective change methods that you can apply to your own life in the real world. Stuart Libman is one of the most gifted practitioners of these methods and gives a tutorial in the context of discussing Atlas Hugged with me. It's…

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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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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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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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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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NOW LIVE!. Michael Shermer, founder of Skeptic Magazine, knows as much about Ayn Rand and what she stands for as anyone could. He and his daughter even appeared as extras in the movie of Atlas Shrugged! Our conversation on his Skeptic podcast lasted two hours and ranged far and wide, as all of my conversations centered on AH do (Go…

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