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At the 2006 Summer Seminar of The Atlas Society, we were treated to a number of excellent presentations that addressed different aspects...

Jan 5, 2011

Robert James Bidinotto

10 Mins

Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism

Jerry Kirkpatrick, a professor of International Business and Marketing at California Polytechnic Institute, has come out with another book a

Dec 31, 2010

Marsha Enright

10 Mins

Sidebar: Debt or Poker Chips?

Winter 2010 -- Is U.S. government debt really hitting 100% of GDP soon? Or is the debt level actually closer to 65% of GDP at the end of 2010, as the Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform reports?

Dec 29, 2010

Rage and Objectivism

One cannot avoid recognizing that we live in a very angry age. At one time, people spoke to “My worthy opponent” when addressing someone...

Dec 29, 2010

Barbara Branden

10 Mins

Taking the Tea Party at Face Value

Some of the signature values that animated a previous generation—independence, prudence, and self-discipline—seem to be in short supply.....

Dec 28, 2010

Bradley Doucet

10 Mins

Felon Finds Redemption in Ayn Rand

Arnold ran from the fight. At 14, having grown up in the Bronx, he was no stranger to brawls. But when a much older bully started shoving

Dec 27, 2010

Jennifer A. Grossman

4 Mins

Europe's Last Dictatorship: An Interview with Jaroslav Romanchuk

On December 20th, 2010, the government of Belarus launched a sweeping crack-down (see news photo below) against opposition..

Dec 21, 2010

Robert James Bidinotto

12 Mins

Editor's Desk: A Post-Racial America?

Summer 2010 -- With the seemingly increasing polarization of the political landscape in America, and the first black president in office, racism continues to be a frequent topic of news stories. Some paint the Tea Party with the broad brush of racism, failing to apprehend any nuanced picture of the grass roots phenomenon and failing to perceive the prejudice inherent in such a knee jerk reaction. Meanwhile clear incidents of racism continue: including the 2008 burning of a predominantly African-American church in Massachusetts, done in protest of the election of Barack Obama.

Dec 19, 2010

How Racist Are We?

I’m a bit of a racist. I’ll bet you are one, too.

Dec 19, 2010

8 Mins

How Preet Bharara Is Changing the Nature of Insider Trading

In my editorial “ Consider the Source ,” I speculated that Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was

Dec 15, 2010

3 Mins

Judge Alex Kozinski on Prosecutorial Misconduct

In a case decided last Friday (December 10), a three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the conviction of Prabhat Goyal , former CFO of Network Associates, Inc., the producer of antivirus and network security software formerly known as McAfee. What makes this reversal so remarkable is that the panel tossed out the verdict not on the basis of some misstatement of the applicable law by the judge.

Dec 14, 2010

Consider the Source: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara

Earlier, I mentioned that accusation —of “rampant” insider trading—in connection with a sweeping new prosecution that has been launched by

Dec 14, 2010

5 Mins

Hellhound on His Trail

Hampton was 6 when his hometown snapped. His father worked for the Memphis law firm that represented King when the civil rights leader led..

Dec 13, 2010

Noah Bunn

10 Mins

Interview with Anne Conover Heller

William Thomas interviews Anne Conover Heller on the writing of her acclaimed biography Ayn Rand and the World She Made.

Dec 5, 2010

10 Mins

Debt or Poker Chips?

Is U.S. government debt really hitting 100% of GDP soon? Or is the debt level actually closer to 65% of GDP at the end of 2010, as the Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform reports? The answer is: yes.

Dec 1, 2010

America's Deficit Culture

We’ve heard for years that the government’s deficit was too big. They said it of Reagan’s deficit and George W. Bush’s. But no government...

Dec 1, 2010

9 Mins

A Better Way to Run a Railroad

May 1998 -- In 1987, several railroad executives believed there was a better way to run a railroad. After finding an opportunity to acquire

“Check your premises” is an injunction that runs as a subtheme through Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged , and it is a phrase that seems to...