The Atlas Project
It’s a new world. To navigate it, we need new maps. Each episode, best-selling author Chris Kutarna and Scott Jones soar 50,000 feet above the immediate headlines in politics, economics, science and society. The Atlas Project aims to reveal the big picture of where humanity is headed, and the choices we all need to face.
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Sunday Mar 31, 2019
Sunday Mar 31, 2019
Social media, and the fake news that spread across it, no doubt played a role in delivering the “Brexiteers” their surprise victory in the UK’s May 2016 referendum on EU membership.
https://atlasproject.fireside.fm/7
Monday Mar 11, 2019
Monday Mar 11, 2019
In this episode, recorded shortly after the death of America's 41st President George H.W. Bush, we talk about his legacy, and what leadership, politics and service meant to his generation and what they mean now. We also talk about the possibilities of reforming liberal democratic systems, the protests in Paris, and a conference on the future of work that Chris went to in Australia.
https://atlasproject.fireside.fm/6
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
We recorded this episode of the podcast in Toronto, where we were there for Basecamp Toronto, a remarkable gathering which Chris Kutarna conceived and convened.
https://atlasproject.fireside.fm/5
Friday Feb 22, 2019
Friday Feb 22, 2019
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
In this episode of the podcast we consider a number of hot button words thrown around in public discourse today: nationalism, tribalism, globalism, identity, populism...the list goes on.
https://atlasproject.fireside.fm/4
Thursday Feb 14, 2019
Thursday Feb 14, 2019
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
When too many people believe they have found truth, democracy breaks down. Once truth has been found, the common project of discovery is complete.To rescue the possibility of groping toward Paradise democratically, we need to inject our own group discourses with doubt.
Wednesday Feb 06, 2019
Wednesday Feb 06, 2019
Enterprising minds have spotted our discontent with disintegration and turned reintegration into an industry. In this episode we talk about the disintergation we all feel and look to the ancient past to help us find our way to a more integrated future.https://atlasproject.fireside.fm/2
Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
These days, the commentariat is talking a lot about China and what China’s rising confidence means for the world—and for the democratic world in particular. Democracy had won. Democracy had answered, definitively, the age-old question that had driven human history for millennia, namely: What ideas should govern society? https://atlasproject.fireside.fm/