Antitrust law often works to the detriment of extraordinarily productive businesses, such as Google . And it's based on the moral premise--the immoral premise--that all productive activity exists for the sake of the public, not for the sake of the people who engage in it.
Our knowledge of the world, and our ability to act in it, depends on our grasp of causal relationships among things—the ways they act and in
In this presentation David Kelley surveys the history and current state of the Objectivist movement. Truth and Toleration was a monograph...
What is the foundation of human happiness, prosperity, cooperation and freedom? At the 2011 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Whole Foods CEO and...
Early this week NBC created a stir after reporting they had obtained a 16-page memo leaked from the U.S. Department of Justice that revealed new details on President Obama’s controversial “kill list.” Although still leaving many unanswered questions about the Obama administration’s policy on extrajudicial killings of American citizens, it does move this secretive practice further into light.
Just a few years ago, if someone would have told me that a member of Ron Paul’s family would have been invited to speak to an audience of
February 4, 2013 -- Following publication on this website, the Atlas Society video interview with Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) was cited by multiple media outlets including 6811.html">Politico , The Nation , The Blaze , Mother Jones , The Huffington Post , Slate , The Chicago Tribune , Human Events , Reason Magazine , The Hill , Roll Call , Politics Nation with Al Sharpton on Msnbc , The Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch , L'Opinione , The Northwestern.com , The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , and Right Wisconsin ..
Feburary 8, 2013 -- William R Thomas, programs director for The Atlas Society, is scheduled to speak at a Language of Liberty Institute event in Miami this weekend. Thomas will speak on business ethics and will participate in a panel on myths about capitalism.
Atlas Sumit 2012 -- 2012 is the centenary of the birth of one of the greatest modern defenders of the free society, Milton Friedman...
With the failure of the Bush/Obama stimulus and scandals with “green jobs” (Solyndra, etc.), crony capitalism has been on the hot seat. Big
Feb. 11, 2013 -- Upgrade and maintenance work is currently being done on our website. During this period a few items may not function properly. We apologize for any inconvenience. The work will be completed by next Wednesday.
If you own a motel, should it be taken away from you because of what your customers do in the space you provide them? Federal and local officials in Tewksbury, Mass., said yes; the Institute for Justice said no; and today, a federal magistrate judge agreed with IJ , sparing the Caswell Motel.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has announced that the U.S. military will make its default policy one of equality for women. No general class of jobs, including combat-related positions, will be off-limits to female soldiers once a transition phase is completed. (Apparently, some case-by-case exclusions may continue.)
In his second inaugural address , President Obama said, “What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. ‘ We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and [sic] among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’”
President Barack Obama’s inauguration for his second term was held on Martin Luther King’s birthday with Obama’s hand on King’s and...
I am a critic of subsidies for green technologies. I don't think it is at all certain how efficient technologies like solar and wind power
To prepare your own tax return, you don't need a license. Should you have to have IRS approval to prepare one for someone else? The IRS decided you did. And because it decided this approval would be contingent on paying fees and getting training, it imposed new costs on professional tax preparers -- and threatened the viability of small tax-preparation businesses that didn't generate enough revenue to justify the costs.
Today at noon, President Obama gave a long-awaited announcement saying that he intends to introduce legislation soon that would ban assault
"Fight to be free." These are the words of Republican Senator and businessman Ron Johnson, and he is so committed to the fight, he had the..
Atlas Summit 2012 -- The heroes of Atlas Shrugged are rational, productive businesspeople. In Ayn Rand's thought, a career represents the
Antitrust law often works to the detriment of extraordinarily productive businesses, such as Google . And it's based on the moral premise--the immoral premise--that all productive activity exists for the sake of the public, not for the sake of the people who engage in it.
Our knowledge of the world, and our ability to act in it, depends on our grasp of causal relationships among things—the ways they act and in
In this presentation David Kelley surveys the history and current state of the Objectivist movement. Truth and Toleration was a monograph...
What is the foundation of human happiness, prosperity, cooperation and freedom? At the 2011 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Whole Foods CEO and...
Early this week NBC created a stir after reporting they had obtained a 16-page memo leaked from the U.S. Department of Justice that revealed new details on President Obama’s controversial “kill list.” Although still leaving many unanswered questions about the Obama administration’s policy on extrajudicial killings of American citizens, it does move this secretive practice further into light.
Just a few years ago, if someone would have told me that a member of Ron Paul’s family would have been invited to speak to an audience of
February 4, 2013 -- Following publication on this website, the Atlas Society video interview with Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) was cited by multiple media outlets including 6811.html">Politico , The Nation , The Blaze , Mother Jones , The Huffington Post , Slate , The Chicago Tribune , Human Events , Reason Magazine , The Hill , Roll Call , Politics Nation with Al Sharpton on Msnbc , The Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch , L'Opinione , The Northwestern.com , The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , and Right Wisconsin ..
Feburary 8, 2013 -- William R Thomas, programs director for The Atlas Society, is scheduled to speak at a Language of Liberty Institute event in Miami this weekend. Thomas will speak on business ethics and will participate in a panel on myths about capitalism.
Atlas Sumit 2012 -- 2012 is the centenary of the birth of one of the greatest modern defenders of the free society, Milton Friedman...
With the failure of the Bush/Obama stimulus and scandals with “green jobs” (Solyndra, etc.), crony capitalism has been on the hot seat. Big
Feb. 11, 2013 -- Upgrade and maintenance work is currently being done on our website. During this period a few items may not function properly. We apologize for any inconvenience. The work will be completed by next Wednesday.
If you own a motel, should it be taken away from you because of what your customers do in the space you provide them? Federal and local officials in Tewksbury, Mass., said yes; the Institute for Justice said no; and today, a federal magistrate judge agreed with IJ , sparing the Caswell Motel.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has announced that the U.S. military will make its default policy one of equality for women. No general class of jobs, including combat-related positions, will be off-limits to female soldiers once a transition phase is completed. (Apparently, some case-by-case exclusions may continue.)
In his second inaugural address , President Obama said, “What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. ‘ We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and [sic] among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’”
President Barack Obama’s inauguration for his second term was held on Martin Luther King’s birthday with Obama’s hand on King’s and...
I am a critic of subsidies for green technologies. I don't think it is at all certain how efficient technologies like solar and wind power
To prepare your own tax return, you don't need a license. Should you have to have IRS approval to prepare one for someone else? The IRS decided you did. And because it decided this approval would be contingent on paying fees and getting training, it imposed new costs on professional tax preparers -- and threatened the viability of small tax-preparation businesses that didn't generate enough revenue to justify the costs.
Today at noon, President Obama gave a long-awaited announcement saying that he intends to introduce legislation soon that would ban assault
"Fight to be free." These are the words of Republican Senator and businessman Ron Johnson, and he is so committed to the fight, he had the..
Atlas Summit 2012 -- The heroes of Atlas Shrugged are rational, productive businesspeople. In Ayn Rand's thought, a career represents the