October 2004 -- There are two major cases pending before the United States Supreme Court, to be considered in the current term, which bear heavily upon sentencing in this country by challenging the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. The cases are United States v. Booker and United States v. Fanfan. These cases are consolidated for appeal, and the Supreme Court held oral arguments on them on October 4, 2004.
December 2004 -- Ayn Rand 's ideas inspired many people; one of them was me. When I began reading Atlas Shrugged in the summer of 1964, I had no idea that doing so would change not only my understanding of the world but also my choice of career. Rand's powerful vision of rationality and liberty hit me at an opportune time. Previously inspired by Barry Goldwater's libertarian-oriented The Conscience of a Conservative, I was in the thick of the student "Goldwater for President" movement. And thanks to MIT's required courses in modern Western ideas and values, I'd been introduced to Aristotle, Locke, Hume, Smith, and Mill (along with many others), and on my own had discovered Friedman, Hayek, and Mises. I was ready for an integrated worldview that explained why I'd never been comfortable being labeled a conservative.
December 2004 -- Ayn Rand was an advocate of both egoism and rights. As an advocate of egoism, she held that the individual ought not to
December 2004 -- Ayn Rand was no academic, and people sometimes point to that fact to explain the lack of scholarly consideration given
December 2004 -- There is much to celebrate on the occasion of the Ayn Rand centenary. Books on Rand and Rand citations in the scholarly
December 2004 -- Ayn Rand acknowledged Aristotle as the only philosopher to whom she was indebted, the father of logic who defined "the bas
A few years ago, a colleague whose intelligence I respect invited me to attend a lecture he was going to give. "This will not be one of.....
Part of the frustration we feel at these shortages is caused by the very price-gouging laws that our elected officials assure us are for...
Consider the following situation. It is 1963. You are a twenty-one-year-old graduate of Tuskegee University, rooming in Washington, D.C....
I have written about the evolving seigneurial view in American politics and law--that common people ought to be able to act as though the world has been made a place safe for them, in matters of finance, food, drugs, toys, consumer prodcuts, and so on. On Monday, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Philadelphia, provided a slight check to that idea. According to the court, the case Malack v. BDO Seidman turned on the following view of the investor’s situation: “(1) ‘the existence of the security in the marketplace resulted from the successful perpetration of a fraud on the investment community’ and (2) that [he (correction by RD)] ‘purchased in reliance on the market.’ Critical to the theory’s coherency is the assumption that it is reasonable for an investor to rely “on [a] [security’s] availability on the market as an indication of [its] apparent genuineness[.]”
September 2004 -- As John Enright notes , there is a wealth of poetry about political and personal freedom. I thought Navigator's readers
I've gathered for you some poems that celebrate political and personal freedom. I like them, and I hope you will like them, too. This is onl
June 2004 -- London Bridge—the London Bridge of nursery-rhyme fame—was completed in 1209 and began falling down a mere 60 years later. That was because Eleanor of Provence, who was queen consort to Henry III and was also the "fair lady" of the nursery rhyme, had been given the bridge tolls as a gift from her husband and was spending the revenue on herself rather than on bridge repairs. Fast-forward 600 years, and London Bridge was again falling down. The city of London, which now had control of the structure, decided it had to undertake major repairs. To find out what needed to be done, the city hired John Rennie. Rennie was one of the Industrial Revolution's leading engineers, along with John Smeaton and Thomas Telford. Today, sadly, these men who created so much of Great Britain's infrastructure during the Industrial Revolution are far less well known than the era's inventors, such as Richard Arkwright and James Watt.
Conrad Black. Jeffrey Skilling. Government and defense lawyers submitted their briefs in the Conrad Black case today . Said the prosecutors: “The erroneous honest services instruction was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.” Lawyers for Black said the prosecution’s use of the honest-services theory required the court to throw out the verdict.
Earlier this week, as part of the unfolding Galleon insider-trading case, government prosecutors urged U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts to sentence ex-IBMer Robert Moffat to six months in prison for passing confidential corporate information to his mistress, Danielle Chiese, when she was an executive with the hedge fund New Castle Partners. Unquestionably, what Moffat did wronged IBM, and the company would be well within its rights to sue him. But I fail to see that Moffat’s corporate disloyalty is any business of the U.S. government. Moffat is seeking probation . He will be sentenced on September 13.
Those who love Ayn Rand 's novels have searched, with little result, for works that are similar to Rand's in both ideas and essential
Soft America lives off the productivity, creativity, and competence of Hard America, and we have the luxury of keeping part of our society S
When one thinks of Enlightenment literature (other than the newly emerging novel), what comes to mind are once-vibrant forms sunk to dry
October 2004 -- There are two major cases pending before the United States Supreme Court, to be considered in the current term, which bear heavily upon sentencing in this country by challenging the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. The cases are United States v. Booker and United States v. Fanfan. These cases are consolidated for appeal, and the Supreme Court held oral arguments on them on October 4, 2004.
December 2004 -- Ayn Rand 's ideas inspired many people; one of them was me. When I began reading Atlas Shrugged in the summer of 1964, I had no idea that doing so would change not only my understanding of the world but also my choice of career. Rand's powerful vision of rationality and liberty hit me at an opportune time. Previously inspired by Barry Goldwater's libertarian-oriented The Conscience of a Conservative, I was in the thick of the student "Goldwater for President" movement. And thanks to MIT's required courses in modern Western ideas and values, I'd been introduced to Aristotle, Locke, Hume, Smith, and Mill (along with many others), and on my own had discovered Friedman, Hayek, and Mises. I was ready for an integrated worldview that explained why I'd never been comfortable being labeled a conservative.
December 2004 -- Ayn Rand was an advocate of both egoism and rights. As an advocate of egoism, she held that the individual ought not to
December 2004 -- Ayn Rand was no academic, and people sometimes point to that fact to explain the lack of scholarly consideration given
December 2004 -- There is much to celebrate on the occasion of the Ayn Rand centenary. Books on Rand and Rand citations in the scholarly
December 2004 -- Ayn Rand acknowledged Aristotle as the only philosopher to whom she was indebted, the father of logic who defined "the bas
A few years ago, a colleague whose intelligence I respect invited me to attend a lecture he was going to give. "This will not be one of.....
Part of the frustration we feel at these shortages is caused by the very price-gouging laws that our elected officials assure us are for...
Consider the following situation. It is 1963. You are a twenty-one-year-old graduate of Tuskegee University, rooming in Washington, D.C....
I have written about the evolving seigneurial view in American politics and law--that common people ought to be able to act as though the world has been made a place safe for them, in matters of finance, food, drugs, toys, consumer prodcuts, and so on. On Monday, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Philadelphia, provided a slight check to that idea. According to the court, the case Malack v. BDO Seidman turned on the following view of the investor’s situation: “(1) ‘the existence of the security in the marketplace resulted from the successful perpetration of a fraud on the investment community’ and (2) that [he (correction by RD)] ‘purchased in reliance on the market.’ Critical to the theory’s coherency is the assumption that it is reasonable for an investor to rely “on [a] [security’s] availability on the market as an indication of [its] apparent genuineness[.]”
September 2004 -- As John Enright notes , there is a wealth of poetry about political and personal freedom. I thought Navigator's readers
I've gathered for you some poems that celebrate political and personal freedom. I like them, and I hope you will like them, too. This is onl
June 2004 -- London Bridge—the London Bridge of nursery-rhyme fame—was completed in 1209 and began falling down a mere 60 years later. That was because Eleanor of Provence, who was queen consort to Henry III and was also the "fair lady" of the nursery rhyme, had been given the bridge tolls as a gift from her husband and was spending the revenue on herself rather than on bridge repairs. Fast-forward 600 years, and London Bridge was again falling down. The city of London, which now had control of the structure, decided it had to undertake major repairs. To find out what needed to be done, the city hired John Rennie. Rennie was one of the Industrial Revolution's leading engineers, along with John Smeaton and Thomas Telford. Today, sadly, these men who created so much of Great Britain's infrastructure during the Industrial Revolution are far less well known than the era's inventors, such as Richard Arkwright and James Watt.
Conrad Black. Jeffrey Skilling. Government and defense lawyers submitted their briefs in the Conrad Black case today . Said the prosecutors: “The erroneous honest services instruction was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.” Lawyers for Black said the prosecution’s use of the honest-services theory required the court to throw out the verdict.
Earlier this week, as part of the unfolding Galleon insider-trading case, government prosecutors urged U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts to sentence ex-IBMer Robert Moffat to six months in prison for passing confidential corporate information to his mistress, Danielle Chiese, when she was an executive with the hedge fund New Castle Partners. Unquestionably, what Moffat did wronged IBM, and the company would be well within its rights to sue him. But I fail to see that Moffat’s corporate disloyalty is any business of the U.S. government. Moffat is seeking probation . He will be sentenced on September 13.
Those who love Ayn Rand 's novels have searched, with little result, for works that are similar to Rand's in both ideas and essential
Soft America lives off the productivity, creativity, and competence of Hard America, and we have the luxury of keeping part of our society S
When one thinks of Enlightenment literature (other than the newly emerging novel), what comes to mind are once-vibrant forms sunk to dry