The Atlas Society Presents - The Atlas Society Asks

Join Atlas Society Senior Scholar Stephen Hicks and Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski Wednesday for a special webinar exploring academic freedom and how the government uses federal/state funding to exert control over higher education.

Join Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman for the 249th episode of The Atlas Society Asks where she interviews former Anheuser-Busch executive Anson Frericks about his book Last Call for Bud Light: The Fall and Future of America's Favorite Beer, in which he tells the inside story of how Anheuser-Busch suddenly became enamored with stakeholder capitalism, DEI and ESG. Anson Frericks, a former president at Anheuser-Busch—formerly the home of America’s most popular brewery—watched as the company unraveled at the hands of globe-trotting financiers and progressive middle management. This culminated in the evaporation of $30 billion in market cap after releasing an advertising campaign starring transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Drawing on his own experiences in corporate America, Frericks offers insight into how businesses should focus on shareholder capitalism and the people who buy their products and what may happen when they don’t.

Join Atlas Society International Strategy Director Isidora Kolar for the 248th episode of The Atlas Society Asks where she interviews Stephen R. Soukup about his book "The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business," exploring the Left’s long march through American Institutions, culminating in its capture of Big Business, and a strategy to prevent corporate America from becoming an economically powerful extension of the “woke” college campus. Stephen R. Soukup is the senior commentator, Vice President, and Publisher of The Political Forum, an “independent research provider” that delivers research and consulting services to the institutional investment community with an emphasis on economic, social, political, and geopolitical events likely to have an impact on the financial markets in the United States and abroad.

Join Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman for the 247th episode of The Atlas Society Asks, where she sits down with author and health policy scholar Sally Pipes to talk about her latest book "The World's Medicine Chest: How America Achieved Pharmaceutical Supremacy--and How to Keep it," which details how America became the world’s leader in biopharmaceutical innovation and argues how efforts by Democrats and Republicans to impose price controls on prescription drugs will have disastrous consequences. Sally Pipes is president, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute. Drawing on her decades of experience as a health policy scholar, Pipes has written numerous books, including "The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care," "The Way Out of Obamacare," and "False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All."

The news of the day is filled with tariffs and trade wars, not just aimed at China but at our biggest and friendliest trading partners like Canada. Is trade bad? Did it hollow out manufacturing and make us poorer? Are other countries "ripping us off"? Or is it the trade war that's killing the economy? In preparation for the release of The Atlas Society’s newest publication, "The Pocket Guide to Free Trade," later this year, we invite you to join Atlas Society Founder and Senior Scholar David Kelley, Ph.D., and Senior Fellow Rob Tracinski for a discussion about how trade is a vital necessity of prosperity and essential to economic freedom, and why barriers to international trade are mostly arbitrary and destructive.

Join Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman for the 245th episode of The Atlas Society Asks, where she interviews Joshua Mitchell, professor of political theory at Georgetown University, about his book "American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time," which explores how America’s founding ideal of civic engagement is being eroded by identity politics, social media-induced bipolarity, cultural addition to convenience–and how these challenges can be overcome. Joshua Mitchell has written extensively on Western political philosophy and theology, authoring four books, including Tocqueville in Arabia: The Anxieties of the Democratic Age and The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future. Mitchell was also part of the team responsible for founding Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar.

Join Atlas Soceity CEO Jennifer Grossman for the 244th episode of The Atlas Society Asks where she sits down with investigative journalist Geoffrey Cain to talk about his book "The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future," which reveals the extraordinary intrusiveness and power of the tech surveillance giants and the chilling implications for all our futures. A former correspondent at The Economist and regular commentator in The Wall Street Journal, Time, Foreign Policy, and a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, and Bloomberg, Cain writes about the ways that technology is upending our lives, communities, governments and businesses. His work takes him to the world’s most authoritarian and far-off places, from inside North Korea to the trans-Siberian railway across Russia, from investigations into genocide in Cambodia to experiments in technological surveillance in China. Check Out More From Geoffrey Cain: Website: https://geoffreycain.net/ X: https://x.com/geoffrey_cain  

Join Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman for the 243rd episode of The Atlas Society Asks, where she sits down with author, political historian, attorney, and politician Christopher Cox to discuss his new book, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn. The book explores Wilson’s opposition to racial equality and women’s suffrage, highlighting his role in segregating the federal government, resisting the 19th Amendment, and ultimately attempting to preserve Jim Crow restrictions even as women secured the right to vote.

Join Atlas Society Senior Scholars Stephen Hicks, Ph.D., and Richard Salsman, Ph.D. for a special webinar discussing the "Capitalist Peace" thesis, where the duo will examine the claim that capitalist societies tend towards peace while authoritarian ones tend towards it, pulling from historical examples and data.

Join Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman for the 241st episode of The Atlas Society Asks, where she speaks with Gregg Hill, Co-Founder and General Partner of Parkway VC, about his entrepreneurial journey, his views on the future of AI and robotics, and how investment will contribute to developing these emerging technologies. ----------------------------------------------   Gregg Hill is a Co-Founder and General Partner of Parkway VC, an experienced investor and successful entrepreneur with a strong focus on AI and technology investments. Before Parkway, Gregg was a founding partner of H&S Capital and played a key role as an early and active investor in several tech ventures, including the AI startup Frustum. Gregg has a background in professional tennis, having been trained by Nick Bollettieri and achieving top rankings before a career-ending injury. He holds a degree in Economics from USC and is passionate about philanthropy, particularly through his work with the American Diabetes Association and Match Point Impact.