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  • Atlas Hugged through the lens of a former Ayn Rand devotee...

    Marilyn Hamilton is a polymath and founder of Integral City, which describes the ideal city as "A whole living system. It is the Human Hive. As the beehive is for honeybees, the Integral City is the collective habitat for the human species." Given Marilyn's holistic vision, I'm not surprised that…

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  • Atlas Hugged and ringing in the new year with Joe Walker

    Listen to the Podcast HERE Joe Walker--aka The Jolly Swagman--is one of the most popular bloggers in Australia and also one of the most literate about "this view of life", or an evolutionary worldview. My first podcast with him in February 2020, titled "The Evolution of a Renegade" went three…

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  • A Deep Philosophical Dive with Ed Gibney

    Watch the Video HERE A Deep Philosophical Dive with Ed Gibney. Ed Gibney is a writer and philosopher whose Evolutionary Philosophy blog is listed among the 100 top philosophy blogs, websites, and influencers of 2020. A novelist himself (Draining the Swamp), while Ed thinks highly of AH overall (see his endorsement on…

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  • Atlas Hugged and Evolving the Future of the Real World, with David Korten

    Listen to the Podcast HERE NOW LIVE! : David Korten is the renowned futurist, author of When Corporations Rule the World and The Great Turning among many other books, founder of YES! Magazine, and a prominent member of the Club of Rome. There is no better person with whom to…

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  • Atlas Hugged and Our Moment of Choice, with Kurt Johnson

    Listen: Spotify – Google – Apple – Stitcher Kurt Johnson wears many hats–a distinguished evolutionary biologist, a leader of the Interspiritual Movement, an authority on the scientific career of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov, and most recently co-author of the anthology Our Moment of Choice: Evolutionary Visions and Hope for the Future. It was Kurt who introduced me to the Interspiritual Movement and who…

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  • Atlas Hugged and the Nature of Fiction, with Brian Boyd

    Listen to the Podcast HERE NOW LIVE!: Brian Boyd is a renowned literary scholar, one of the few who thinks about literature from an evolutionary perspective (The Origin of Stories), biographer of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1,2,3), and 2020 recipient of the Rutherford Medal, New Zealand's highest academic honor. He is…

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  • A conversation with Rory Sutherland on his podcast O Behave!

    Listen to the Podcast HERE NOW LIVE!: Rory Sutherland is Vice Chairman of Ogilvy and Mather Group, one of the largest and most renowned advertising agencies in the world. He is also a TED speaker and highly informed the evolutionary worldview portrayed in Atlas Hugged.  Our conversation toggles back and…

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  • University of Newcastle, Australia's Joe T. Velikovsky

    Read the Short Review HERERead the Short FULL HERE The communications polymath Joe T. Velikovsky (no other way to describe him), has taken such a liking to AH that he has written two reviews—a short one in the form of a structured abstract that doesn’t have any spoilers and a…

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  • David's appearance on the Simpol Insights podcast

    Watch the Video HERE David recently appeared on the Simpol Insights podcast with Rob Cobbold where he discussed fiction versus non-fiction, the need for strong meaning systems, and some of the unwanted byproducts of the evolutionary process. Watch it here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FatGHcnrDGU You can learn more about Simpol and…

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