October 2009 -- Is there an adult in the house? Are we all operating with one collective mind, or are there still those who possess reasonin
When Ayn Rand created a heroic American dynasty for her novel Atlas Shrugged, she based the family's fortune not on oil, or autos, or
February 2004 -- Given the fact that the title of director Denys Arcand's previous film was The Decline of the American Empire, that his new film is from Canada, in French, and that it includes images of the destruction of the World Trade Center, one would expect Oscar-nominated The Barbarian Invasions to be a not-so-thinly veiled attack on his neighbor to the south. While the attack might be there, it is subtle, and the film is morally ambiguous. In it, Arcand, intentionally or not, exposes the flaws both of leftist public policies and the moral decadence that tends to accompany them. The film opens with Remy (Remy Girard), a left-wing college professor, dying in a Canadian hospital. His ex-wife, divorced from Remy for 15 years because of his philandering, calls their estranged son Sebastien (Stephane Rousseau), a financial-risk manager working in London, to return to be with his father at the end. Sebastien reluctantly agrees. Remy's daughter is out sailing in the Pacific and opts not to return. You see, Remy has placed a jolly life of seductions, mistresses, and wine ahead of his family and, indeed, his academic career.
March 2002 -- Because I live in Warsaw, I get most of my TV news from the BBC. Recently I have watched, dumbfounded and amused, at the outpouring of concern for the comfort of the Al-Qaida prisoners kept at Guantanamo Bay. They were transported shackled with bags over their heads! They sleep in open cages! Four of them have British passports! Have they all had their Miranda warnings? The fact that they are undoubtedly living in less discomfort than they freely chose to undergo in the field doesn’t seem to register. I often think that the most common error in reasoning is a kind of category error, the placing of an issue in a category it doesn’t belong in. The classic example is the “no right to shout fire in a crowded theater” issue, often cited in a free-speech context when it clearly belongs in an implied-contract context.
March 2002 -- Miss Cleo is in big trouble. In her TV commercials, in her Caribbean accent, she offers to tell her callers’ fortunes, to
On May 11, after the trial of Galleon hedge-fund founder Raj Rajaratnam (pictured below) had ended in a conviction on all counts, the U.S. A
As Atlas Shrugged Part 1 came to theaters on April 15, many wondered: will the movie be true to Ayn Rand’s ideas? Theater-goers were relieve
Ayn Rand supported a laissez-faire capitalist economic system and defended the morality of making a profit through private business.
Many people still think Ayn Rand advocated a take-what-you-want-and-damn-everyone-else kind of selfishness.
On August 2nd, 2009, The New York Times profiled BB&T’s John Allison , who put Ayn Rand’s principles to work at that bank when he was CEO...
Ayn Rand has been a major inspiration for the Tea Party movement, which has swept a new generation of Republicans and self-described....
March 31, 2003 -- Among the perennial themes in American political life, one of the most crucial is the contest between individualism and
August 14, 2009 -- I am told that today's system of medical care in the United States lets too many people "fall through the cracks.".....
Jim Jeck has consulted on strategy and marketing for small to large organizations from 1995 to the present. Prior to and overlapping with that was an academic career at Duke University and North Carolina State University in the respective colleges of management. Jim was also involved in the NC State College of Engineering’s consulting and outreach function. Jim’s graduate degrees are from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. The Masters is an Executive M.B.A.
While waiting for the jury to reach a verdict in the Raj Rajaratnam “insider trading” case, I was forwarded a tweet from Frank Quattrone that links to an investigation by the Northern California Innocence Project.
Sidebar to: A River Ran Through It Spring 2011 -- The beauty of eastern Kentucky was never apparent to me until I moved to Texas and didn’t see flowers bloom for two years. I flew home during summer for the first time in 2010 and was astounded by the beauty. The leaves were mint-green, the grass was as soft as my mother’s voice. I walked barefoot on mossy banks behind my parents' house and helped my niece pick wildflowers. We ate strawberries fresh from the garden.
I changed careers and philosophies after reading Atlas Shrugged. I read it when I was 28 years old. At that time I was asking questions such
After thousands of years of formal philosophizing and probably a hundred thousand of contemplation around prehistoric camp fires, is there..
Earlier today, the Galleon insider-trading case went to the jury. I see little hope that Raj Rajaratnam will be declared innocent. But we shall find out soon enough. I thought it interesting, though, to reflect that in the year Rajaratnam was born (ca. 1957, the year Atlas Shrugged was published), federal prosecution for insider trading essentially did not exist. It is an economic “crime” that the SEC has basically created out of whole cloth in the last fifty years.
by Sherrie Gossett Spring 2011 -- It’s here: April 15 is the date for release of the much-awaited Atlas Shrugged movie, bank-rolled and tirelessly spearheaded by entrepreneur John Aglialoro, a trustee of The Atlas Society which publishes this magazine. In this issue we feature two articles about the movie: an interview with screenwriter Brian O’Toole (page 12) and a sidebar interview with TNI’s own David Kelley who served as a script advisor (page 17). In one memorable scene from the movie, entrepreneur Hank Rearden explains why he won’t give up his company: “Because it’s mine.” We find the same gritty and admirable determination animating the hard-working townsfolk of Olive Hill, Kentucky, which recently experienced a ravaging flood (“A River Ran Through It,” page 56). Writer Sarah Perry returns home to bring us this moving story of Kentuckians resilient and proud, proud of what they’ve poured their lives into (homes, shops, each other) and proud of what they’ve already overcome. Despite tragedy, many choose to stay. Must the sweet always come with the bitter? Does the faith of the townspeople sweeten the bitter waters of their Marah experience (as in the book of Exodus)?
October 2009 -- Is there an adult in the house? Are we all operating with one collective mind, or are there still those who possess reasonin
When Ayn Rand created a heroic American dynasty for her novel Atlas Shrugged, she based the family's fortune not on oil, or autos, or
February 2004 -- Given the fact that the title of director Denys Arcand's previous film was The Decline of the American Empire, that his new film is from Canada, in French, and that it includes images of the destruction of the World Trade Center, one would expect Oscar-nominated The Barbarian Invasions to be a not-so-thinly veiled attack on his neighbor to the south. While the attack might be there, it is subtle, and the film is morally ambiguous. In it, Arcand, intentionally or not, exposes the flaws both of leftist public policies and the moral decadence that tends to accompany them. The film opens with Remy (Remy Girard), a left-wing college professor, dying in a Canadian hospital. His ex-wife, divorced from Remy for 15 years because of his philandering, calls their estranged son Sebastien (Stephane Rousseau), a financial-risk manager working in London, to return to be with his father at the end. Sebastien reluctantly agrees. Remy's daughter is out sailing in the Pacific and opts not to return. You see, Remy has placed a jolly life of seductions, mistresses, and wine ahead of his family and, indeed, his academic career.
March 2002 -- Because I live in Warsaw, I get most of my TV news from the BBC. Recently I have watched, dumbfounded and amused, at the outpouring of concern for the comfort of the Al-Qaida prisoners kept at Guantanamo Bay. They were transported shackled with bags over their heads! They sleep in open cages! Four of them have British passports! Have they all had their Miranda warnings? The fact that they are undoubtedly living in less discomfort than they freely chose to undergo in the field doesn’t seem to register. I often think that the most common error in reasoning is a kind of category error, the placing of an issue in a category it doesn’t belong in. The classic example is the “no right to shout fire in a crowded theater” issue, often cited in a free-speech context when it clearly belongs in an implied-contract context.
March 2002 -- Miss Cleo is in big trouble. In her TV commercials, in her Caribbean accent, she offers to tell her callers’ fortunes, to
On May 11, after the trial of Galleon hedge-fund founder Raj Rajaratnam (pictured below) had ended in a conviction on all counts, the U.S. A
As Atlas Shrugged Part 1 came to theaters on April 15, many wondered: will the movie be true to Ayn Rand’s ideas? Theater-goers were relieve
Ayn Rand supported a laissez-faire capitalist economic system and defended the morality of making a profit through private business.
Many people still think Ayn Rand advocated a take-what-you-want-and-damn-everyone-else kind of selfishness.
On August 2nd, 2009, The New York Times profiled BB&T’s John Allison , who put Ayn Rand’s principles to work at that bank when he was CEO...
Ayn Rand has been a major inspiration for the Tea Party movement, which has swept a new generation of Republicans and self-described....
March 31, 2003 -- Among the perennial themes in American political life, one of the most crucial is the contest between individualism and
August 14, 2009 -- I am told that today's system of medical care in the United States lets too many people "fall through the cracks.".....
Jim Jeck has consulted on strategy and marketing for small to large organizations from 1995 to the present. Prior to and overlapping with that was an academic career at Duke University and North Carolina State University in the respective colleges of management. Jim was also involved in the NC State College of Engineering’s consulting and outreach function. Jim’s graduate degrees are from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. The Masters is an Executive M.B.A.
While waiting for the jury to reach a verdict in the Raj Rajaratnam “insider trading” case, I was forwarded a tweet from Frank Quattrone that links to an investigation by the Northern California Innocence Project.
Sidebar to: A River Ran Through It Spring 2011 -- The beauty of eastern Kentucky was never apparent to me until I moved to Texas and didn’t see flowers bloom for two years. I flew home during summer for the first time in 2010 and was astounded by the beauty. The leaves were mint-green, the grass was as soft as my mother’s voice. I walked barefoot on mossy banks behind my parents' house and helped my niece pick wildflowers. We ate strawberries fresh from the garden.
I changed careers and philosophies after reading Atlas Shrugged. I read it when I was 28 years old. At that time I was asking questions such
After thousands of years of formal philosophizing and probably a hundred thousand of contemplation around prehistoric camp fires, is there..
Earlier today, the Galleon insider-trading case went to the jury. I see little hope that Raj Rajaratnam will be declared innocent. But we shall find out soon enough. I thought it interesting, though, to reflect that in the year Rajaratnam was born (ca. 1957, the year Atlas Shrugged was published), federal prosecution for insider trading essentially did not exist. It is an economic “crime” that the SEC has basically created out of whole cloth in the last fifty years.
by Sherrie Gossett Spring 2011 -- It’s here: April 15 is the date for release of the much-awaited Atlas Shrugged movie, bank-rolled and tirelessly spearheaded by entrepreneur John Aglialoro, a trustee of The Atlas Society which publishes this magazine. In this issue we feature two articles about the movie: an interview with screenwriter Brian O’Toole (page 12) and a sidebar interview with TNI’s own David Kelley who served as a script advisor (page 17). In one memorable scene from the movie, entrepreneur Hank Rearden explains why he won’t give up his company: “Because it’s mine.” We find the same gritty and admirable determination animating the hard-working townsfolk of Olive Hill, Kentucky, which recently experienced a ravaging flood (“A River Ran Through It,” page 56). Writer Sarah Perry returns home to bring us this moving story of Kentuckians resilient and proud, proud of what they’ve poured their lives into (homes, shops, each other) and proud of what they’ve already overcome. Despite tragedy, many choose to stay. Must the sweet always come with the bitter? Does the faith of the townspeople sweeten the bitter waters of their Marah experience (as in the book of Exodus)?