Sherrie GossetWinter 2011 issue -- When you are in need of surgery or medical treatment, who should decide what type of hospital you use? You? Or politicians and interest groups? Your health, pocketbook, and life may be at stake in such a decision.
Winter 2011 issue -- Did Jane Austen approve of slavery? In her novel Mansfield Park, published in 1814, the wealthy pater-familias Thomas Bertram is mostly absent, because he is off tending to his plantation on Antigua—where the fields would have been worked by African slaves. Yet, when he is mentioned, and again once he returns to his home, he is a positive and respected figure. Slavery isn’t a problem in the novel. His slave-holding leaves no more moral stain than does his bank account.
When people think of Medicare, they usually think of the government health insurance program for seniors over age 65. They may even recall..
Dr. Eric Logan and First Presbyterian Hospital are pseudonyms, used at the request of the doctor interview...
Forget the gleaming stainless steel skyscrapers. Forget the latest recording equipment, overpaid executives, and auto-tuning. ..
The incision Dr. Thomas Tkach makes into his patient’s knee is almost like clockwork. It is Friday morning, and within minutes Dr. Tkach...
February 23, 2012 -- If backdated options affected something called “earnings,” and “investors care about earnings,” is that enough to show that backdated options were material information for investors to have—even without proof that the real earnings investors care about are the “earnings” affected by backdated options?
The Leyden jar is variously called a condenser or capacitor, and the reasons for those two names become obvious when one understands the...
Electrical matter consists of extremely small particles. (True. Electrons are particles and are smaller than can be measured..
In 1940, The Saturday Evening Post carried a short story by Paul Gallico (1897-1976), who had begun his career as a sports reporter but who
January 2000 -- This month's "Achievers" column begins to redeem the promise made on the inside back cover of the December 1999 Navigator. T
Benjamin Franklin is the ideal person to lead off The Atlas Society''s Year 250 celebration, for many reasons. First, Franklin was a man who
This month's "Achievers" column begins to redeem the promise made on the inside back cover of the December 1999 Navigator. There, under the
One side effect of the 2008 financial crisis has been renewed attention to the ban on insider
"Tea parties." "Going Galt." You've probably seen a growing number of references to these in the media, online, and on signs at rallies reacting to new government spending and controls. The Boston Tea Party was a rebellion against excessive government. Today's "tea parties" say "no" to spending without limit and the government takeover of our lives.
Sidebar article to: " Goddess Undeified ." a review of the book Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jennifer Burns.Fall 2009 issue -- Jennifer Burns summarizes the essential structure of Objectivism in one place in her biography, a single paragraph on page 148: “It was all adding up to one integrated system. Man was a rational creature who used his mind to survive. The rational faculty required independence and individuality to operate properly; therefore an ethic of selfishness was appropriate for rational men.”
Fall 2009 issue — The vision of the electric car is a totem to the Progressive movement. But is it a realistic vision?Progressive-inclined businesspeople are thick on the ground in Silicon Valley, a bastion of environmentalism. Since information technology can operate at a comfortable distance from the factories of energy producers, an entrepreneur can make millions in IT without ever deviating from his or her green creed.
In January, 1962, in the very first issue of The Objectivist Newsletter, Ayn Rand wrote, “Objectivists are...
Winter 2011 issue -- The suggestion that a movement can be both radical and conservative may sound contradictory. To be radical is to...
Under pointed questioning by Henry Waxman, the committee chairman, Greenspan issued a mea-culpa that resounded around the world.
Sherrie GossetWinter 2011 issue -- When you are in need of surgery or medical treatment, who should decide what type of hospital you use? You? Or politicians and interest groups? Your health, pocketbook, and life may be at stake in such a decision.
Winter 2011 issue -- Did Jane Austen approve of slavery? In her novel Mansfield Park, published in 1814, the wealthy pater-familias Thomas Bertram is mostly absent, because he is off tending to his plantation on Antigua—where the fields would have been worked by African slaves. Yet, when he is mentioned, and again once he returns to his home, he is a positive and respected figure. Slavery isn’t a problem in the novel. His slave-holding leaves no more moral stain than does his bank account.
When people think of Medicare, they usually think of the government health insurance program for seniors over age 65. They may even recall..
Dr. Eric Logan and First Presbyterian Hospital are pseudonyms, used at the request of the doctor interview...
Forget the gleaming stainless steel skyscrapers. Forget the latest recording equipment, overpaid executives, and auto-tuning. ..
The incision Dr. Thomas Tkach makes into his patient’s knee is almost like clockwork. It is Friday morning, and within minutes Dr. Tkach...
February 23, 2012 -- If backdated options affected something called “earnings,” and “investors care about earnings,” is that enough to show that backdated options were material information for investors to have—even without proof that the real earnings investors care about are the “earnings” affected by backdated options?
The Leyden jar is variously called a condenser or capacitor, and the reasons for those two names become obvious when one understands the...
Electrical matter consists of extremely small particles. (True. Electrons are particles and are smaller than can be measured..
In 1940, The Saturday Evening Post carried a short story by Paul Gallico (1897-1976), who had begun his career as a sports reporter but who
January 2000 -- This month's "Achievers" column begins to redeem the promise made on the inside back cover of the December 1999 Navigator. T
Benjamin Franklin is the ideal person to lead off The Atlas Society''s Year 250 celebration, for many reasons. First, Franklin was a man who
This month's "Achievers" column begins to redeem the promise made on the inside back cover of the December 1999 Navigator. There, under the
One side effect of the 2008 financial crisis has been renewed attention to the ban on insider
"Tea parties." "Going Galt." You've probably seen a growing number of references to these in the media, online, and on signs at rallies reacting to new government spending and controls. The Boston Tea Party was a rebellion against excessive government. Today's "tea parties" say "no" to spending without limit and the government takeover of our lives.
Sidebar article to: " Goddess Undeified ." a review of the book Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jennifer Burns.Fall 2009 issue -- Jennifer Burns summarizes the essential structure of Objectivism in one place in her biography, a single paragraph on page 148: “It was all adding up to one integrated system. Man was a rational creature who used his mind to survive. The rational faculty required independence and individuality to operate properly; therefore an ethic of selfishness was appropriate for rational men.”
Fall 2009 issue — The vision of the electric car is a totem to the Progressive movement. But is it a realistic vision?Progressive-inclined businesspeople are thick on the ground in Silicon Valley, a bastion of environmentalism. Since information technology can operate at a comfortable distance from the factories of energy producers, an entrepreneur can make millions in IT without ever deviating from his or her green creed.
In January, 1962, in the very first issue of The Objectivist Newsletter, Ayn Rand wrote, “Objectivists are...
Winter 2011 issue -- The suggestion that a movement can be both radical and conservative may sound contradictory. To be radical is to...
Under pointed questioning by Henry Waxman, the committee chairman, Greenspan issued a mea-culpa that resounded around the world.