My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive
Question: I am not a socialist, but I have a question on the nature of socialism. How does nationalization take place in non-communist European countries? I heard it was through purchasing the company. How is this a violation of property rights if your company is being purchased? Answer: The right of property is a right of action: the right to pursue the material benefits one needs to live and flourish, and the absolute right of possession once these have been secured. So, property rights include the freedom to use or voluntarily trade away one’s possessions as one sees fit, including the right not to give up or sell one’s property at any price. It is a violation of this right to conduct a transaction on the basis of force—as opposed to voluntary trade—even if some monetary compensation is paid in an attempt to excuse what is, at root, an act of robbery.
Question: What is the Objective position on www.fairtax.org? Answer: The Atlas Society does not focus primarily on political policy, and we do not have any position on the organization you mention. In politics, we favor a radical downsizing and simplification of the functions of government at all levels. We advocate a government strictly limited to its functions in providing and enforcing law and providing national defense, and hope for a government that is restricted to upholding individual rights.
Ayn Rand is best known for her novels, which continue to sell hundreds of thousands of copies each year, and for her philosophical essays on
In the last lecture, we looked at those arguments that won the debate for free speech. Historically, those arguments were nested in
Nationalism is the doctrine that a unitary cultural and political entity, the nation, should be the organizing principle of society....
Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand ’s magnum opus. It is the culmination of her quest to portray an ideal man, and the first full expression of ...
The Fountainhead, Rand's first commercial success, is the story of Howard Roark, the brilliant architect who insists on the right to pursue
The Atlas Society (formerly known as The Objectivist Center) works with students to spread the revolutionary ideas of......
Ayn Rand. Her name is a kind of psychological litmus test; it inevitably provokes violent reactions of either fierce admiration or
Both as a thinker and as an artist, Ayn Rand swam against the tide. As a philosopher, she was an uncompromising champion of reason....
In Tokyo, 94% of women in their 20s own a Louis Vuitton bag. Hong Kong boasts more Gucci and Hermes stores than Paris. China’s passion for l
In its efforts to supervise Nebraska cattle producers' obedience to the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is literally...
Begin with the title. An “outlier,” in statistics, is an observation so far outside the general range of one’s data as to indicate a possibl
Near the beginning of the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy is challenged to a knife fight by another member of his Ho
Liberals have given conservatives much grief over the years for advocating an abstinence-only approach to sex education. “Kids are going....
Many Leftist commentators are getting riled up about a report that BP’s damages in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are limited to $75 million. Here is Matthew L. Wald, writing yesterday at “Green,” the NYT’s Energy and Environment blog: "A 1990 law, the Oil Pollution Act [OPA], limits claims by fishermen, hotel owners and others against the operator of an offshore platform causing such pollution to $75 million." That is so misleading as to be false. BP is in Deep Something, and it isn’t Deep Water. Since the explosion occurred on April 20, the company’s stock has lost a quarter of its value, and no wonder. Analyst Greg Smith told Bloomberg that the ultimate cost to the company may be $10 billion.
Imagine a person so utterly lacking in ordinary human feelings that he would pay one million dollar’s to man’s wife for handing over corporate information found on the fellow’s home computer. Would that not be the lowest act of insider trading imaginable? Would that not be the ultimate in despicable greed? Well, no, actually. That would be your high-minded, greed-fighting SEC at work .
Former Google executive Brian Reid is suing the company for age discrimination, claiming that he was let go because he was not considered a “cultural fit” with the youthful corporate outlook. A district court found in the company’s favor, but an appeals court threw out that ruling. Now the suit is before the California Supreme Court. At issue, apparently, is the so-called “stray remarks” doctrine invented in 1989 by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Adding injury to insult, Reid was let go shortly before Google went public, which cost him a potential payday well into the millions of dollars.
An inquiry into fraud (or indeed into direct physical coercion) must begin with an inquiry into rights. For neither fraud nor coercion can
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive
Question: I am not a socialist, but I have a question on the nature of socialism. How does nationalization take place in non-communist European countries? I heard it was through purchasing the company. How is this a violation of property rights if your company is being purchased? Answer: The right of property is a right of action: the right to pursue the material benefits one needs to live and flourish, and the absolute right of possession once these have been secured. So, property rights include the freedom to use or voluntarily trade away one’s possessions as one sees fit, including the right not to give up or sell one’s property at any price. It is a violation of this right to conduct a transaction on the basis of force—as opposed to voluntary trade—even if some monetary compensation is paid in an attempt to excuse what is, at root, an act of robbery.
Question: What is the Objective position on www.fairtax.org? Answer: The Atlas Society does not focus primarily on political policy, and we do not have any position on the organization you mention. In politics, we favor a radical downsizing and simplification of the functions of government at all levels. We advocate a government strictly limited to its functions in providing and enforcing law and providing national defense, and hope for a government that is restricted to upholding individual rights.
Ayn Rand is best known for her novels, which continue to sell hundreds of thousands of copies each year, and for her philosophical essays on
In the last lecture, we looked at those arguments that won the debate for free speech. Historically, those arguments were nested in
Nationalism is the doctrine that a unitary cultural and political entity, the nation, should be the organizing principle of society....
Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand ’s magnum opus. It is the culmination of her quest to portray an ideal man, and the first full expression of ...
The Fountainhead, Rand's first commercial success, is the story of Howard Roark, the brilliant architect who insists on the right to pursue
The Atlas Society (formerly known as The Objectivist Center) works with students to spread the revolutionary ideas of......
Ayn Rand. Her name is a kind of psychological litmus test; it inevitably provokes violent reactions of either fierce admiration or
Both as a thinker and as an artist, Ayn Rand swam against the tide. As a philosopher, she was an uncompromising champion of reason....
In Tokyo, 94% of women in their 20s own a Louis Vuitton bag. Hong Kong boasts more Gucci and Hermes stores than Paris. China’s passion for l
In its efforts to supervise Nebraska cattle producers' obedience to the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is literally...
Begin with the title. An “outlier,” in statistics, is an observation so far outside the general range of one’s data as to indicate a possibl
Near the beginning of the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy is challenged to a knife fight by another member of his Ho
Liberals have given conservatives much grief over the years for advocating an abstinence-only approach to sex education. “Kids are going....
Many Leftist commentators are getting riled up about a report that BP’s damages in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are limited to $75 million. Here is Matthew L. Wald, writing yesterday at “Green,” the NYT’s Energy and Environment blog: "A 1990 law, the Oil Pollution Act [OPA], limits claims by fishermen, hotel owners and others against the operator of an offshore platform causing such pollution to $75 million." That is so misleading as to be false. BP is in Deep Something, and it isn’t Deep Water. Since the explosion occurred on April 20, the company’s stock has lost a quarter of its value, and no wonder. Analyst Greg Smith told Bloomberg that the ultimate cost to the company may be $10 billion.
Imagine a person so utterly lacking in ordinary human feelings that he would pay one million dollar’s to man’s wife for handing over corporate information found on the fellow’s home computer. Would that not be the lowest act of insider trading imaginable? Would that not be the ultimate in despicable greed? Well, no, actually. That would be your high-minded, greed-fighting SEC at work .
Former Google executive Brian Reid is suing the company for age discrimination, claiming that he was let go because he was not considered a “cultural fit” with the youthful corporate outlook. A district court found in the company’s favor, but an appeals court threw out that ruling. Now the suit is before the California Supreme Court. At issue, apparently, is the so-called “stray remarks” doctrine invented in 1989 by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Adding injury to insult, Reid was let go shortly before Google went public, which cost him a potential payday well into the millions of dollars.
An inquiry into fraud (or indeed into direct physical coercion) must begin with an inquiry into rights. For neither fraud nor coercion can