This list first appeared in the 2003 issue of Navigator magazine. Integrity A Man for All Seasons (1966) The Fountainhead (1949) Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) High Noon (1952) Chariots of Fire (1981) On the Waterfront (1954) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) The Spirit of America Boom Town (1940) Mrs. Parkington (1944) Cash McCall (1960) Field of Dreams (1989) Sergeant York (1941) A League of Their Own (1992) Singin' in the Rain (1952) The Music Man (1962) Moscow on the Hudson (1984) Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
October 2003 --The following anecdote, although probably apocryphal, goes to the heart of Giuseppe Verdi's music: When he was finishing..
One year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the FBI arrested six Yemeni immigrants in Lackawanna, New York, for aiding terrorists; the arrest
December 2003 -- Somewhere you've probably seen the old photos. The two men are wearing bowler hats and sack suits and celluloid collars
November 2003 -- This is how the story was told: In 1761, a young French Protestant of Toulouse, Marc Antoine Calas, finding his life a
November 2003 -- That Tuesday morning, like most, found me staring at my computer screen. A white rectangle of Microsoft Word stared back
Historian David McCullough, who last year published a biography of President John Adams, was asked in an interview why America's Founding...
I might have guessed that the entertainment industry would not allow the leftist policies of its political friends to be exposed as the cause of the financial meltdown. On October 8, just in time for the elections, we are going to get the equivalent of a “Michael Moore” account of the collapse. Here is the plot summary: From Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson ("No End in Sight"), comes "Inside Job," the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, "Inside Job" traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. Narrated by Academy Award® winner Matt Damon, "Inside Job" was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.
On Monday, a district judge in Los Angeles will be asked to dismiss the S.E.C.’s case against Angelo Mozilo, the former CEO of Countrywide Financial and the eponymous hero of the “Friends of Angelo” program, which provided favorable loans to people in high places . So reports Peter J.
The essence of what makes fantasy popular is that it takes the reader out of his normal life into an extraordinary, value-laden, and highly
With American forces still in Iraq and the country frequently in a high state of terrorist alert, we go about our daily lives with a
Atlas Summit 2013 -- Energy is at the center of Atlas Shrugged, whether in the present with Wyatt Oil and Danagger Coal or in the future
Why should we acquiesce when governments take our money? We would be upset if thugs stole our wallets at gunpoint or thieves broke into our
I have always disliked that weird hybrid of fact and fiction known as the "docudrama." An inherently dishonest contrivance, it jumbles actua
if Martha Burk of the National Council of Women's Organizations (NCWO) has learned anything from her attempt to force the Augusta National..
The Financial Accounting Standards Board is proposing that, in the interests of “full disclosure,” companies should have to announce “the existence of studies in reputable scientific journals . . . that indicate potential significant hazards related to the entity’s products or operations.” So, in addition to being sued by the plaintiffs bar, a company and its executives will be sued by the SEC--or maybe prosecuted by a U.S. Attorney--for not having discovered and publicized the existence of a borderline amount of metal or carcinogen in their goods. There is a phenomenon at work here and elsewhere that deserves a name: It is a step-by-step process that purports to aim at the market’s perfection but in fact aims at its destruction, and of course it is possible only because people accept mistaken ideas about what tends to perfection, for example, full disclosure. My own belief is that the market would be a far safer place if companies disclosed much, much less public information--but permitted insider trading.
Yesterday, I noted Chrystia Freeland’s criticism of business journalists for explaining systemic economic events with tales about “malfactors of great wealth.” Freeland seemed to think that such journalists were motivated simply by the desire to attract an audience. But a broader focus shows that such muckraking journalism is but one small part of a much broader attack on businessmen, which I call the Great Media/Legal Rich-Hunt.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is not central to the concerns of the Business Rights Center. But it is worth following because of the legal, legislative, and regulatory consequences that are bound to follow. Alarming assessments of the spill are easy to come by. For the other side of the story, here are two more measured assessments: “ Our Real Gulf Disaster ,” by Lou Dolinar (published in National Review, August 30, 2010), and “ The Catastrophe That Wasn’t ,” by Paul Schwennesen (published at MasterResource.org). Full disclosure: I occasionally do some copyediting for MasterResource.
Those are not the kind of questions Landrum wants to be answering. “I’m looking for people who don’t need a lot of guidance,” he tells me...
I consider Bob Elliott a friend. We’ve traveled thousands of miles together. He’s made me laugh so hard I cried. Once, after he cracked a...
This list first appeared in the 2003 issue of Navigator magazine. Integrity A Man for All Seasons (1966) The Fountainhead (1949) Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) High Noon (1952) Chariots of Fire (1981) On the Waterfront (1954) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) The Spirit of America Boom Town (1940) Mrs. Parkington (1944) Cash McCall (1960) Field of Dreams (1989) Sergeant York (1941) A League of Their Own (1992) Singin' in the Rain (1952) The Music Man (1962) Moscow on the Hudson (1984) Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
October 2003 --The following anecdote, although probably apocryphal, goes to the heart of Giuseppe Verdi's music: When he was finishing..
One year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the FBI arrested six Yemeni immigrants in Lackawanna, New York, for aiding terrorists; the arrest
December 2003 -- Somewhere you've probably seen the old photos. The two men are wearing bowler hats and sack suits and celluloid collars
November 2003 -- This is how the story was told: In 1761, a young French Protestant of Toulouse, Marc Antoine Calas, finding his life a
November 2003 -- That Tuesday morning, like most, found me staring at my computer screen. A white rectangle of Microsoft Word stared back
Historian David McCullough, who last year published a biography of President John Adams, was asked in an interview why America's Founding...
I might have guessed that the entertainment industry would not allow the leftist policies of its political friends to be exposed as the cause of the financial meltdown. On October 8, just in time for the elections, we are going to get the equivalent of a “Michael Moore” account of the collapse. Here is the plot summary: From Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson ("No End in Sight"), comes "Inside Job," the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, "Inside Job" traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. Narrated by Academy Award® winner Matt Damon, "Inside Job" was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.
On Monday, a district judge in Los Angeles will be asked to dismiss the S.E.C.’s case against Angelo Mozilo, the former CEO of Countrywide Financial and the eponymous hero of the “Friends of Angelo” program, which provided favorable loans to people in high places . So reports Peter J.
The essence of what makes fantasy popular is that it takes the reader out of his normal life into an extraordinary, value-laden, and highly
With American forces still in Iraq and the country frequently in a high state of terrorist alert, we go about our daily lives with a
Atlas Summit 2013 -- Energy is at the center of Atlas Shrugged, whether in the present with Wyatt Oil and Danagger Coal or in the future
Why should we acquiesce when governments take our money? We would be upset if thugs stole our wallets at gunpoint or thieves broke into our
I have always disliked that weird hybrid of fact and fiction known as the "docudrama." An inherently dishonest contrivance, it jumbles actua
if Martha Burk of the National Council of Women's Organizations (NCWO) has learned anything from her attempt to force the Augusta National..
The Financial Accounting Standards Board is proposing that, in the interests of “full disclosure,” companies should have to announce “the existence of studies in reputable scientific journals . . . that indicate potential significant hazards related to the entity’s products or operations.” So, in addition to being sued by the plaintiffs bar, a company and its executives will be sued by the SEC--or maybe prosecuted by a U.S. Attorney--for not having discovered and publicized the existence of a borderline amount of metal or carcinogen in their goods. There is a phenomenon at work here and elsewhere that deserves a name: It is a step-by-step process that purports to aim at the market’s perfection but in fact aims at its destruction, and of course it is possible only because people accept mistaken ideas about what tends to perfection, for example, full disclosure. My own belief is that the market would be a far safer place if companies disclosed much, much less public information--but permitted insider trading.
Yesterday, I noted Chrystia Freeland’s criticism of business journalists for explaining systemic economic events with tales about “malfactors of great wealth.” Freeland seemed to think that such journalists were motivated simply by the desire to attract an audience. But a broader focus shows that such muckraking journalism is but one small part of a much broader attack on businessmen, which I call the Great Media/Legal Rich-Hunt.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is not central to the concerns of the Business Rights Center. But it is worth following because of the legal, legislative, and regulatory consequences that are bound to follow. Alarming assessments of the spill are easy to come by. For the other side of the story, here are two more measured assessments: “ Our Real Gulf Disaster ,” by Lou Dolinar (published in National Review, August 30, 2010), and “ The Catastrophe That Wasn’t ,” by Paul Schwennesen (published at MasterResource.org). Full disclosure: I occasionally do some copyediting for MasterResource.
Those are not the kind of questions Landrum wants to be answering. “I’m looking for people who don’t need a lot of guidance,” he tells me...
I consider Bob Elliott a friend. We’ve traveled thousands of miles together. He’s made me laugh so hard I cried. Once, after he cracked a...