August 20, 2012 -- Quite long ago, Whittaker Chambers said: “The great failing of American conservatives is they don’t retrieve their wounded.” That bitter reflection, but as applied to American businessmen, came to mind when I finished reading the story of Greg Reyes, son of a Cuban immigrant, who rose through talent, productivity, and vision to become, at 36, the CEO of Brocade Communications—a Silicon Valley company that revolutionized computer-storage technology (and whose revenues he increased twenty-fold in three years)—and then found himself
If you are liberal, you want people to be treated as people. You're against racism and against sexism. You are in favor of more immigration
The ordinance the Albany, N.Y., council recently passed allows city officials to impose "reasonable rules and regulations" on businesses obtaining the new cabaret licenses. Now that they've seen these "reasonable rules," people who own and work in Albany bars are protesting.
So, maybe there's no free lunch, but hey, here's a free copy: Radical for Capitalism: An Introduction to the Political Thought of Ayn Rand , by Will Thomas -- as a pdf download from Scribd.
June 25, 2009 -- In December 1989, I stopped in Moscow, on my way to Estonia as part of the first group from the West to hold a conference on free markets in the Soviet Union. A colleague and I met with scholars and others who we thought would be sympathetic to our mission. Not infrequently we were told that they had heard and, we gathered, been inspired by the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher about the nature of their regime, an evil empire, and what should be done: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
U.S. House of Representatives, August 8, 2008 -- I am Dr. Edward Hudgins, executive director of The Atlas Society, here in Washington, D.C.
You lost control of the Senate and House for the first time in twelve years and of governorships across the country. President George....
On April 30, The Atlas Society published audio of Rep. Paul Ryan speaking at a TAS event in 2005. In the audio he indicates tha
Now that Wisconsin representative Paul Ryan is Mitt Romney’s choice for vice president on the GOP ticket, Ryan’s plan for dealing with the
Congratulations to the Institute for Justice on a victory for business rights in Utah. A federal court has ruled that the state's requirement that hair braiders get cosmetology licenses -- which require 2,000 hours of training that might not even cover hair braiding! -- is unconstitutional .
In Holland, Mich., the law under which Nathan Duszynski's hot-dog cart was shut down has not only blocked the 13-year-old's entrepreneurial
The war between expropriators and producers has taken a wholly expected turn in France. The recently-elected socialist government announced
Today the Federal Trade Commission—just one of many government agencies here and abroad that have been harassing one of the world’s ...
Today NASA's Curiosity Rover landed on Mars. Its advanced instruments should bring humanity closer to knowing whether life exists on the Re
When government proposes to nationalize a major industry, it is a loudspeaker blaring the message that the country is abandoning the market
The Washington Post yesterday gave us a piece covering antitrust law as a competitive field: BRUSSELS — Europe may be a financial disaster and a faded military force, but in at least one arena it has emerged as champ: Regulators here are challenging the power of America’s technology titans. And they are winning.
How scared would you be if I said on this blog that you were a bad person? How about if I blogged, not for The Atlas Society, but for President Obama's reelection campaign? Much more in the latter than in the former, I imagine, and with good reason: there's not much The Atlas Society could or would do based on my comment -- certainly not by comparison of what's within the power of a U.S. president.
I'm beginning to think someone has gotten the wrong answer. Recently, I blogged about ATM accessibility rules: The machines must be
Too many Americans are losing the ability to take care of themselves and are instead looking to the government to run their lives for them..
August 20, 2012 -- Quite long ago, Whittaker Chambers said: “The great failing of American conservatives is they don’t retrieve their wounded.” That bitter reflection, but as applied to American businessmen, came to mind when I finished reading the story of Greg Reyes, son of a Cuban immigrant, who rose through talent, productivity, and vision to become, at 36, the CEO of Brocade Communications—a Silicon Valley company that revolutionized computer-storage technology (and whose revenues he increased twenty-fold in three years)—and then found himself
If you are liberal, you want people to be treated as people. You're against racism and against sexism. You are in favor of more immigration
The ordinance the Albany, N.Y., council recently passed allows city officials to impose "reasonable rules and regulations" on businesses obtaining the new cabaret licenses. Now that they've seen these "reasonable rules," people who own and work in Albany bars are protesting.
So, maybe there's no free lunch, but hey, here's a free copy: Radical for Capitalism: An Introduction to the Political Thought of Ayn Rand , by Will Thomas -- as a pdf download from Scribd.
June 25, 2009 -- In December 1989, I stopped in Moscow, on my way to Estonia as part of the first group from the West to hold a conference on free markets in the Soviet Union. A colleague and I met with scholars and others who we thought would be sympathetic to our mission. Not infrequently we were told that they had heard and, we gathered, been inspired by the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher about the nature of their regime, an evil empire, and what should be done: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
U.S. House of Representatives, August 8, 2008 -- I am Dr. Edward Hudgins, executive director of The Atlas Society, here in Washington, D.C.
You lost control of the Senate and House for the first time in twelve years and of governorships across the country. President George....
On April 30, The Atlas Society published audio of Rep. Paul Ryan speaking at a TAS event in 2005. In the audio he indicates tha
Now that Wisconsin representative Paul Ryan is Mitt Romney’s choice for vice president on the GOP ticket, Ryan’s plan for dealing with the
Congratulations to the Institute for Justice on a victory for business rights in Utah. A federal court has ruled that the state's requirement that hair braiders get cosmetology licenses -- which require 2,000 hours of training that might not even cover hair braiding! -- is unconstitutional .
In Holland, Mich., the law under which Nathan Duszynski's hot-dog cart was shut down has not only blocked the 13-year-old's entrepreneurial
The war between expropriators and producers has taken a wholly expected turn in France. The recently-elected socialist government announced
Today the Federal Trade Commission—just one of many government agencies here and abroad that have been harassing one of the world’s ...
Today NASA's Curiosity Rover landed on Mars. Its advanced instruments should bring humanity closer to knowing whether life exists on the Re
When government proposes to nationalize a major industry, it is a loudspeaker blaring the message that the country is abandoning the market
The Washington Post yesterday gave us a piece covering antitrust law as a competitive field: BRUSSELS — Europe may be a financial disaster and a faded military force, but in at least one arena it has emerged as champ: Regulators here are challenging the power of America’s technology titans. And they are winning.
How scared would you be if I said on this blog that you were a bad person? How about if I blogged, not for The Atlas Society, but for President Obama's reelection campaign? Much more in the latter than in the former, I imagine, and with good reason: there's not much The Atlas Society could or would do based on my comment -- certainly not by comparison of what's within the power of a U.S. president.
I'm beginning to think someone has gotten the wrong answer. Recently, I blogged about ATM accessibility rules: The machines must be
Too many Americans are losing the ability to take care of themselves and are instead looking to the government to run their lives for them..