In Barcelona's summer night..
by Sherrie Gossett Summer 2011 issue -- If, as Ayn Rand wrote, “Civilization is the process of setting man free from men” then some are still awakening, wide-eyed, to that newfound freedom. For “Learning Liberty,” writer Sarah Perry and photographer Danny Fulgencio trekked to Armenia to document the transforming work of the Liberty English Camps in a country once dominated by the Soviet Union. Part of that communist legacy is an all-too-prevalent mindset of dependency and waiting to be taken care of. But those attending the camp voiced a different view: “If we spread this idea [of liberty], we will have a better Armenia than we have now” said camp participant Manane Petrosyan. “If you want to be successful in life, it depends on you,” added Givi Kupatadze.
She stood on a bank of snow with an outstretched hand and decades of hope. It had snowed for seven straight days and three-foot drifts lined
Summer 2011 issue -- On May 11, after the trial of Galleon hedge-fund founder Raj Rajaratnam (pictured below) had ended in a conviction on
In times of economic trouble, many people find themselves having to cut into their pleasures. The financial pinch could mean switching from
There are people whom you have known or met who have a powerful quality to them; they know themselves, they seem comfortable in their own...
"There is not even a chance we will do one day in jail,” Danielle Chiesi told Reuters last year, speaking of herself and Raj Rajaratnam...
How does your book differ from those of so many other conservative social critics out there? One can think of Mark Steyn, Roger Kimball...
Update: We have cancelled live streaming due to AT&T connectivity problems at the hotel. Live streaming of the Free Minds / Atlas Society Summer Seminar will start tomorrow morning, Thursday, July 7, at 9:00 am PST / Noon ET. Streaming will begin at the same time this Friday.
How can we judge how we are doing in life? Most people look to society as a guage. For example, we might look to our pay and our prestige...
The producers of Atlas Shrugged Part 1 announced today the signing of a contract for the release of the film on TV and disk...
Let’s start with your views concerning government. Most of you believe that government should not jail consenting adults for engaging, in...
Editor's note: The following article is adapted from "Professional Heroes," a talk given by Gordon Stubley at the 1997 Atlas Society Summer
Thirty years ago, Steve Mariotti decided to take a jog by the river. He was about a mile into his run, close to where his high-rise Wall....
I have long argued that the morally twisted beliefs of many environmentalists imply that humans are pollution and that the Earth would be...
December 17, 2003 -- Saddam Hussein now will stand trial for his crimes. The lessons of the trial could be as critical as Saddam’s capture. All trials reflect fundamental underlying principles. In Western societies they seek to settle disputes or to right wrongs, with advocates for the parties involved and impartial judges and jurors who make their decisions based on objective laws. The goal is justice. In dictatorships, “show trials” keep the physical trappings of a civilized system – a courtroom, a bench, a judge – but their goals are to terrorize the victim on trial and the population through the arbitrary use of power and to degrade them by forcing them to pretend that the proceedings have legitimacy.
April 10, 2004 -- The Greeks had a myth about the great goddess Demeter who brought bountiful harvests. Her daughter Persephone was abducted by Hades, god of the underworld, and taken to the realm of the dead. As Demeter despaired, the crops failed and the Earth died. Hades finally agreed to let Persephone return to the land of the living for part of the year and each year her return brought the spring, a time of rebirth and renewal.
October 3, 2003 -- A group of Southern Methodist University students recently taught a lesson in practical philosophy better than those they are likely to receive in their classes, and the recipients of the lesson are hopping mad. To demonstrate the moral absurdity of the kind of affirmative action principles practiced by many colleges and universities, the SMU students applied the principle to a bake sale. The price of a cookie for a white male was 1 dollar; for a female, 75 cents; for a Hispanic, 50 cents; and for a black, 25 cents.
May 9, 2006 -- What do Britain's astronomer royal Martin Rees and Australian environmentalist David Leary of MacquarieUniversity have in common? Both are concerned that someone might be making profits on outer and inner space frontiers where there are no government regulators or bureaucrats to be found.
October 27, 2004 -- John Kerry's demagogy might serve a purpose other than driving voters to George Bush. In a debate Kerry raised the specter that a second Bush administration might re-institute the military draft. Bush answered clearly and in no uncertain terms that this was not going to happen. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has echoed this pronouncement, adding that the military doesn't need a draft and that a volunteer army is more effective.
In Barcelona's summer night..
by Sherrie Gossett Summer 2011 issue -- If, as Ayn Rand wrote, “Civilization is the process of setting man free from men” then some are still awakening, wide-eyed, to that newfound freedom. For “Learning Liberty,” writer Sarah Perry and photographer Danny Fulgencio trekked to Armenia to document the transforming work of the Liberty English Camps in a country once dominated by the Soviet Union. Part of that communist legacy is an all-too-prevalent mindset of dependency and waiting to be taken care of. But those attending the camp voiced a different view: “If we spread this idea [of liberty], we will have a better Armenia than we have now” said camp participant Manane Petrosyan. “If you want to be successful in life, it depends on you,” added Givi Kupatadze.
She stood on a bank of snow with an outstretched hand and decades of hope. It had snowed for seven straight days and three-foot drifts lined
Summer 2011 issue -- On May 11, after the trial of Galleon hedge-fund founder Raj Rajaratnam (pictured below) had ended in a conviction on
In times of economic trouble, many people find themselves having to cut into their pleasures. The financial pinch could mean switching from
There are people whom you have known or met who have a powerful quality to them; they know themselves, they seem comfortable in their own...
"There is not even a chance we will do one day in jail,” Danielle Chiesi told Reuters last year, speaking of herself and Raj Rajaratnam...
How does your book differ from those of so many other conservative social critics out there? One can think of Mark Steyn, Roger Kimball...
Update: We have cancelled live streaming due to AT&T connectivity problems at the hotel. Live streaming of the Free Minds / Atlas Society Summer Seminar will start tomorrow morning, Thursday, July 7, at 9:00 am PST / Noon ET. Streaming will begin at the same time this Friday.
How can we judge how we are doing in life? Most people look to society as a guage. For example, we might look to our pay and our prestige...
The producers of Atlas Shrugged Part 1 announced today the signing of a contract for the release of the film on TV and disk...
Let’s start with your views concerning government. Most of you believe that government should not jail consenting adults for engaging, in...
Editor's note: The following article is adapted from "Professional Heroes," a talk given by Gordon Stubley at the 1997 Atlas Society Summer
Thirty years ago, Steve Mariotti decided to take a jog by the river. He was about a mile into his run, close to where his high-rise Wall....
I have long argued that the morally twisted beliefs of many environmentalists imply that humans are pollution and that the Earth would be...
December 17, 2003 -- Saddam Hussein now will stand trial for his crimes. The lessons of the trial could be as critical as Saddam’s capture. All trials reflect fundamental underlying principles. In Western societies they seek to settle disputes or to right wrongs, with advocates for the parties involved and impartial judges and jurors who make their decisions based on objective laws. The goal is justice. In dictatorships, “show trials” keep the physical trappings of a civilized system – a courtroom, a bench, a judge – but their goals are to terrorize the victim on trial and the population through the arbitrary use of power and to degrade them by forcing them to pretend that the proceedings have legitimacy.
April 10, 2004 -- The Greeks had a myth about the great goddess Demeter who brought bountiful harvests. Her daughter Persephone was abducted by Hades, god of the underworld, and taken to the realm of the dead. As Demeter despaired, the crops failed and the Earth died. Hades finally agreed to let Persephone return to the land of the living for part of the year and each year her return brought the spring, a time of rebirth and renewal.
October 3, 2003 -- A group of Southern Methodist University students recently taught a lesson in practical philosophy better than those they are likely to receive in their classes, and the recipients of the lesson are hopping mad. To demonstrate the moral absurdity of the kind of affirmative action principles practiced by many colleges and universities, the SMU students applied the principle to a bake sale. The price of a cookie for a white male was 1 dollar; for a female, 75 cents; for a Hispanic, 50 cents; and for a black, 25 cents.
May 9, 2006 -- What do Britain's astronomer royal Martin Rees and Australian environmentalist David Leary of MacquarieUniversity have in common? Both are concerned that someone might be making profits on outer and inner space frontiers where there are no government regulators or bureaucrats to be found.
October 27, 2004 -- John Kerry's demagogy might serve a purpose other than driving voters to George Bush. In a debate Kerry raised the specter that a second Bush administration might re-institute the military draft. Bush answered clearly and in no uncertain terms that this was not going to happen. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has echoed this pronouncement, adding that the military doesn't need a draft and that a volunteer army is more effective.