Editor's Note: In the middle of the last decade, two business professors and a handful of Wall Street Journal reporters called attention to widespread backdating of employee stock options, launching a flurry of prosecutions that cost numerous executives their jobs and a few their freedom. Roger Donway ’s monograph Rich-Hunt tells the story of Greg Reyes, CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, who was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison and a $15 million fine—a miscarriage of justice wrought by ambitious prosecutors and their cheerleaders in the media. At The Atlas Society’s 2012 summer conference, where Greg Reyes spoke of his ordeal, Roger Donway explained why the backdated-options frenzy was an anti-business persecution generated out of the flimsiest excuses. What follows is an edited version of Donway’s talk.
Today is Constitution Day, and while the Constitution we inherit from America’s Founders is easy to praise, it doesn’t take much looking to
The storming of America’s embassy in Egypt and the murder of America’s ambassador to Libya make it imperative that we understand why the Arab Spring was only the illusion of a warm breeze in the cold, dreary, pre-modern cultural darkness.
Quite the contrary. He's taking sweetness out of life for the eight million people who live in New York City. And I'm not just talking...
March 18, 2005 -- Last week Mukhtar Mai , a Pakistani woman, expressed concern that the four men who gang raped her nearly three years ago
The Atlas Society offers a wealth of material for learning about Objectivism. On this page, we've collected links to web-pages and e-documents that student groups can use to explore the Objectivist world-view and hold discussions.
"To deal effectively with our problems we must understand, accept, and apply one fundamental, indispensable proposition:… that we’re all in
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"Ayn Rand defended individual freedom" is the newest in exasperated articles calling out mainstream journalists for their...
As the Apollo 11 lunar module “Eagle” approached the surface of the Moon on July 20, 1969, the millions of people following the mission on
Representative Todd Akin, this year’s GOP candidate in the Missouri U.S. Senate race, has highlighted campaign-killing idiocies that provide valuable lessons for Republicans.
Aaron Day interviews libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, via Skype. Johnson discusses the role of government and the influence
According to a lawsuit filed this month , after David Kelleran bounced a check he’d sent to renew his liquor license for one of his two
August 20, 2012 -- Quite long ago, Whittaker Chambers said: “The great failing of American conservatives is they don’t retrieve their wounded.” That bitter reflection, but as applied to American businessmen, came to mind when I finished reading the story of Greg Reyes, son of a Cuban immigrant, who rose through talent, productivity, and vision to become, at 36, the CEO of Brocade Communications—a Silicon Valley company that revolutionized computer-storage technology (and whose revenues he increased twenty-fold in three years)—and then found himself
If you are liberal, you want people to be treated as people. You're against racism and against sexism. You are in favor of more immigration
The ordinance the Albany, N.Y., council recently passed allows city officials to impose "reasonable rules and regulations" on businesses obtaining the new cabaret licenses. Now that they've seen these "reasonable rules," people who own and work in Albany bars are protesting.
So, maybe there's no free lunch, but hey, here's a free copy: Radical for Capitalism: An Introduction to the Political Thought of Ayn Rand , by Will Thomas -- as a pdf download from Scribd.
Editor's Note: In the middle of the last decade, two business professors and a handful of Wall Street Journal reporters called attention to widespread backdating of employee stock options, launching a flurry of prosecutions that cost numerous executives their jobs and a few their freedom. Roger Donway ’s monograph Rich-Hunt tells the story of Greg Reyes, CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, who was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison and a $15 million fine—a miscarriage of justice wrought by ambitious prosecutors and their cheerleaders in the media. At The Atlas Society’s 2012 summer conference, where Greg Reyes spoke of his ordeal, Roger Donway explained why the backdated-options frenzy was an anti-business persecution generated out of the flimsiest excuses. What follows is an edited version of Donway’s talk.
Today is Constitution Day, and while the Constitution we inherit from America’s Founders is easy to praise, it doesn’t take much looking to
The storming of America’s embassy in Egypt and the murder of America’s ambassador to Libya make it imperative that we understand why the Arab Spring was only the illusion of a warm breeze in the cold, dreary, pre-modern cultural darkness.
Quite the contrary. He's taking sweetness out of life for the eight million people who live in New York City. And I'm not just talking...
March 18, 2005 -- Last week Mukhtar Mai , a Pakistani woman, expressed concern that the four men who gang raped her nearly three years ago
The Atlas Society offers a wealth of material for learning about Objectivism. On this page, we've collected links to web-pages and e-documents that student groups can use to explore the Objectivist world-view and hold discussions.
"To deal effectively with our problems we must understand, accept, and apply one fundamental, indispensable proposition:… that we’re all in
Ever see someone driven by booze, drugs, gambling or some other obsession and destroying family and friends as a result? Ever want to see...
"Ayn Rand defended individual freedom" is the newest in exasperated articles calling out mainstream journalists for their...
As the Apollo 11 lunar module “Eagle” approached the surface of the Moon on July 20, 1969, the millions of people following the mission on
Representative Todd Akin, this year’s GOP candidate in the Missouri U.S. Senate race, has highlighted campaign-killing idiocies that provide valuable lessons for Republicans.
Aaron Day interviews libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, via Skype. Johnson discusses the role of government and the influence
According to a lawsuit filed this month , after David Kelleran bounced a check he’d sent to renew his liquor license for one of his two
Aaron Day interviews libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, via Skype. Johnson discusses the role of government and the influence
Aaron Day interviews libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, via Skype. Johnson discusses the role of government and the influence
August 20, 2012 -- Quite long ago, Whittaker Chambers said: “The great failing of American conservatives is they don’t retrieve their wounded.” That bitter reflection, but as applied to American businessmen, came to mind when I finished reading the story of Greg Reyes, son of a Cuban immigrant, who rose through talent, productivity, and vision to become, at 36, the CEO of Brocade Communications—a Silicon Valley company that revolutionized computer-storage technology (and whose revenues he increased twenty-fold in three years)—and then found himself
If you are liberal, you want people to be treated as people. You're against racism and against sexism. You are in favor of more immigration
The ordinance the Albany, N.Y., council recently passed allows city officials to impose "reasonable rules and regulations" on businesses obtaining the new cabaret licenses. Now that they've seen these "reasonable rules," people who own and work in Albany bars are protesting.
So, maybe there's no free lunch, but hey, here's a free copy: Radical for Capitalism: An Introduction to the Political Thought of Ayn Rand , by Will Thomas -- as a pdf download from Scribd.