May 10, 1013 — Several days ago Amanda Berry escaped from a house of horrors where she’d been held as a kidnapped sex slave since 2003, along with two other women and her daughter, who was born of one of the rapes she suffered. The details of this shocking crime disgust all decent people and the monster responsible should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
At Farragut Park and other locations in Washington, D.C., food vendors have their trucks parked as usual at lunch time today but they are..
North Carolina Republicans wouldn't recognize free enterprise even if it ran them over—say, with an electric car! Tesla Motors, maker of the Model S, voted Car of Year by Motor Trend and best car in years by Consumer Reports , sells its cars directly. They sell over the internet, and, where permitted, they set up their own stores and sell the cars through them. This threatens the cozy middle-man system that U.S. car dealers enjoy. So the car dealers are fighting back—not in the capitalist way, but in the crony-capitalist way!
On Tuesday, April 30th, Young Americans for Liberty at The University of Colorado Boulder will be hosting an exciting and unique debate over the moral foundations of political liberty , pitting three distinct perspectives against each other to make the case for why each is right and most helpful in the fight for a free society.
Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek were notable 20th century advocates of capitalism. They were two of the most important theorists of the free society and defenders of the free society. Both of them based their political views, in part, on theories in epistemology. David Kelley discusses the radical difference in their views on a core epistemological issue, the nature of abstractions. Rand held that we form abstractions from the observation of particular, concrete things. Hayek held the opposite view that abstractions are primary; some are innate, some acquired from our cultural environment, but neither can be independently supported by observation of concretes. Kelley shows why Hayek's view is both false and inconsistent with a fully individualist moral and political theory. [This presentation was filmed at the 2010 Free Minds Conference in Alexandria, Virginia.]
In an effort to avoid fines, Google has proposed concessions to its rivals and European antitrust authorities.Reuters describes the concessions in a way that seems natural—but it’s worth considering what these concessions actually mean. I’ve commented on two of them; I invite you to consider the others.
ESkeptic, the email newsletter of the Skeptic Society, today featured a double book review by The Atlas Society’s Edward Hudgins . Under the title “It’s Getting Better All the Time,” Hudgins looks at Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler and Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, by Robert Zubrin.
The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to stop trying to prevent beer makers AB InBev and Grupo Modelo from merging. The settlement is largely as described in my recent column : on the theory that an independently priced Corona limits the price of InBev products such as Bud Light, DOJ is requiring the merged companies to give up control of Corona in the U.S. market. As part of that arrangement, a brewery just south of the border will be sold to Corona’s new maker, Constellation.
The George W. Bush Presidential Library is ready to open and the former president is giving interviews doubling down on the mantra that
April 2013 -- Atlas Society staff members Ed Hudgins and Alexander R. Cohen have been interviewed by media for their recent articles and Cohen's most recent article was published in several media outlets.
Unlike last time I went to a Senate antitrust hearing , I heard nothing scandalous at today’s. Nothing, except everything. Is it not scandalous to hear a law antithetical to the moral meaning of free enterprise called the “Magna Carta of free enterprise”? To hear a law created to empower the federal government to violate individual rights compared to the Bill of Rights, which was created to restrain the federal government and protect individual rights? Is it not scandalous to hear legislators celebrate a law that coercively controls the terms of voluntary trades to favor a certain side? Even if that side is that of "the consumer"?
April 16, 2013 -- Suppose you and your colleagues want to be paid more. So you make an agreement not to do any more work unless your pay is increased. If you’re unionized laborers, there’s a federal agency that may look after you. But if you’re lawyers with your own offices, taking court appointments to represent poor criminal defendants, there’s a federal agency that may go after you.
Bill Baer, the head of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, is forcing Budweiser’s corporate owner AB InBev to give up a big...
Regulators have restricted so much finance-related speech that people in the industry now have to lobby for the freedom to use Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn like the rest of us. Or almost like the rest of us.
Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep,” wrote Ayn Rand, “’virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it.” This six-session
If you think antitrust is about fair competition, take a look at this : Delta and Virgin Atlantic are asking the U.S. Department of
A criticism of the late, great Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990, echoes the digs at her political friend
April 8. 2013 -- Ed Hudgins will be a guest on WAGG 610 radio, a gospel station in Birmingham, Alabama, today at 3:00 PM Eastern.
James J. Treacy may have helped you find a job, but years after he left Monster.com , he was sent to prison over paperwork there...
Summer 2010 -- “’Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep,” wrote Ayn Rand, “’virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it.”
May 10, 1013 — Several days ago Amanda Berry escaped from a house of horrors where she’d been held as a kidnapped sex slave since 2003, along with two other women and her daughter, who was born of one of the rapes she suffered. The details of this shocking crime disgust all decent people and the monster responsible should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
At Farragut Park and other locations in Washington, D.C., food vendors have their trucks parked as usual at lunch time today but they are..
North Carolina Republicans wouldn't recognize free enterprise even if it ran them over—say, with an electric car! Tesla Motors, maker of the Model S, voted Car of Year by Motor Trend and best car in years by Consumer Reports , sells its cars directly. They sell over the internet, and, where permitted, they set up their own stores and sell the cars through them. This threatens the cozy middle-man system that U.S. car dealers enjoy. So the car dealers are fighting back—not in the capitalist way, but in the crony-capitalist way!
On Tuesday, April 30th, Young Americans for Liberty at The University of Colorado Boulder will be hosting an exciting and unique debate over the moral foundations of political liberty , pitting three distinct perspectives against each other to make the case for why each is right and most helpful in the fight for a free society.
Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek were notable 20th century advocates of capitalism. They were two of the most important theorists of the free society and defenders of the free society. Both of them based their political views, in part, on theories in epistemology. David Kelley discusses the radical difference in their views on a core epistemological issue, the nature of abstractions. Rand held that we form abstractions from the observation of particular, concrete things. Hayek held the opposite view that abstractions are primary; some are innate, some acquired from our cultural environment, but neither can be independently supported by observation of concretes. Kelley shows why Hayek's view is both false and inconsistent with a fully individualist moral and political theory. [This presentation was filmed at the 2010 Free Minds Conference in Alexandria, Virginia.]
In an effort to avoid fines, Google has proposed concessions to its rivals and European antitrust authorities.Reuters describes the concessions in a way that seems natural—but it’s worth considering what these concessions actually mean. I’ve commented on two of them; I invite you to consider the others.
ESkeptic, the email newsletter of the Skeptic Society, today featured a double book review by The Atlas Society’s Edward Hudgins . Under the title “It’s Getting Better All the Time,” Hudgins looks at Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler and Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, by Robert Zubrin.
The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to stop trying to prevent beer makers AB InBev and Grupo Modelo from merging. The settlement is largely as described in my recent column : on the theory that an independently priced Corona limits the price of InBev products such as Bud Light, DOJ is requiring the merged companies to give up control of Corona in the U.S. market. As part of that arrangement, a brewery just south of the border will be sold to Corona’s new maker, Constellation.
The George W. Bush Presidential Library is ready to open and the former president is giving interviews doubling down on the mantra that
April 2013 -- Atlas Society staff members Ed Hudgins and Alexander R. Cohen have been interviewed by media for their recent articles and Cohen's most recent article was published in several media outlets.
Unlike last time I went to a Senate antitrust hearing , I heard nothing scandalous at today’s. Nothing, except everything. Is it not scandalous to hear a law antithetical to the moral meaning of free enterprise called the “Magna Carta of free enterprise”? To hear a law created to empower the federal government to violate individual rights compared to the Bill of Rights, which was created to restrain the federal government and protect individual rights? Is it not scandalous to hear legislators celebrate a law that coercively controls the terms of voluntary trades to favor a certain side? Even if that side is that of "the consumer"?
April 16, 2013 -- Suppose you and your colleagues want to be paid more. So you make an agreement not to do any more work unless your pay is increased. If you’re unionized laborers, there’s a federal agency that may look after you. But if you’re lawyers with your own offices, taking court appointments to represent poor criminal defendants, there’s a federal agency that may go after you.
Bill Baer, the head of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, is forcing Budweiser’s corporate owner AB InBev to give up a big...
Regulators have restricted so much finance-related speech that people in the industry now have to lobby for the freedom to use Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn like the rest of us. Or almost like the rest of us.
Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep,” wrote Ayn Rand, “’virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it.” This six-session
If you think antitrust is about fair competition, take a look at this : Delta and Virgin Atlantic are asking the U.S. Department of
A criticism of the late, great Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990, echoes the digs at her political friend
April 8. 2013 -- Ed Hudgins will be a guest on WAGG 610 radio, a gospel station in Birmingham, Alabama, today at 3:00 PM Eastern.
James J. Treacy may have helped you find a job, but years after he left Monster.com , he was sent to prison over paperwork there...
Summer 2010 -- “’Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep,” wrote Ayn Rand, “’virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it.”