What Is the Atlas Circle?

The Atlas Circle is a collaboration between business leaders and intellectuals who believe…

• Business is a force for good

• The profit motive is noble

• Capitalism is the only moral social system

In today’s anti-business environment, where creators are smeared as greedy, capitalism is smeared as exploitative, and the regulatory state strangles production, it is vital that those who value prosperity, progress, and individual freedom speak out for the morality of business.

Above all, it is vital that business leaders stand up for themselves.

“As a group, businessmen have been withdrawing for decades from the ideological battlefield,” Ayn Rand observed in 1971. “Their public policy has consisted in appeasing, compromising and apologizing: appeasing their crudest, loudest antagonists; compromising with any attack, any lie, any insult; apologizing for their own existence.”

An initiative of the Ayn Rand Institute, The Atlas Circle exists to empower business leaders who recognize that it’s time to stop appeasing and apologizing for their work and their success, and who refuse to cede the ideological battlefield to their attackers.

Leveraging the power of Ayn Rand's moral framework, we provide business leaders with actionable guidance for tackling their most pressing intellectual challenges in the "ideological battlefield."

For a basic introduction to our framework, you can check out these key resources:

• “Sanction of the Victims” by Ayn Rand

• “Freedom and the Need for Business to Stand Up for Itself” by Onkar Ghate

• “What Is Capitalism?” by Ayn Rand

Those interested in a deep dive can explore the following books:

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand

• Free Market Revolution by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins

• Equal Is Unfair by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook

• Why Businessmen Need Philosophy edited by Debi Ghate and Richard Ralston