On August 2nd, 2009, The New York Times profiled BB&T’s John Allison , who put Ayn Rand’s principles to work at that bank when he was CEO...
Ayn Rand has been a major inspiration for the Tea Party movement, which has swept a new generation of Republicans and self-described....
March 31, 2003 -- Among the perennial themes in American political life, one of the most crucial is the contest between individualism and
August 14, 2009 -- I am told that today's system of medical care in the United States lets too many people "fall through the cracks.".....
Jim Jeck has consulted on strategy and marketing for small to large organizations from 1995 to the present. Prior to and overlapping with that was an academic career at Duke University and North Carolina State University in the respective colleges of management. Jim was also involved in the NC State College of Engineering’s consulting and outreach function. Jim’s graduate degrees are from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. The Masters is an Executive M.B.A.
While waiting for the jury to reach a verdict in the Raj Rajaratnam “insider trading” case, I was forwarded a tweet from Frank Quattrone that links to an investigation by the Northern California Innocence Project.
Sidebar to: A River Ran Through It Spring 2011 -- The beauty of eastern Kentucky was never apparent to me until I moved to Texas and didn’t see flowers bloom for two years. I flew home during summer for the first time in 2010 and was astounded by the beauty. The leaves were mint-green, the grass was as soft as my mother’s voice. I walked barefoot on mossy banks behind my parents' house and helped my niece pick wildflowers. We ate strawberries fresh from the garden.
I changed careers and philosophies after reading Atlas Shrugged. I read it when I was 28 years old. At that time I was asking questions such
After thousands of years of formal philosophizing and probably a hundred thousand of contemplation around prehistoric camp fires, is there..
Earlier today, the Galleon insider-trading case went to the jury. I see little hope that Raj Rajaratnam will be declared innocent. But we shall find out soon enough. I thought it interesting, though, to reflect that in the year Rajaratnam was born (ca. 1957, the year Atlas Shrugged was published), federal prosecution for insider trading essentially did not exist. It is an economic “crime” that the SEC has basically created out of whole cloth in the last fifty years.
by Sherrie Gossett Spring 2011 -- It’s here: April 15 is the date for release of the much-awaited Atlas Shrugged movie, bank-rolled and tirelessly spearheaded by entrepreneur John Aglialoro, a trustee of The Atlas Society which publishes this magazine. In this issue we feature two articles about the movie: an interview with screenwriter Brian O’Toole (page 12) and a sidebar interview with TNI’s own David Kelley who served as a script advisor (page 17). In one memorable scene from the movie, entrepreneur Hank Rearden explains why he won’t give up his company: “Because it’s mine.” We find the same gritty and admirable determination animating the hard-working townsfolk of Olive Hill, Kentucky, which recently experienced a ravaging flood (“A River Ran Through It,” page 56). Writer Sarah Perry returns home to bring us this moving story of Kentuckians resilient and proud, proud of what they’ve poured their lives into (homes, shops, each other) and proud of what they’ve already overcome. Despite tragedy, many choose to stay. Must the sweet always come with the bitter? Does the faith of the townspeople sweeten the bitter waters of their Marah experience (as in the book of Exodus)?
(February 4, 2011) An individualist life and a harmonious society are only possible because we can apply reason to the production of the values we need. As individuals, the crucial skill on which our lives depend is our ability to do productive work and be responsible for fulfilling our needs. In this interactive webinar, William R Thomas explains and discusses the Objectivist virtue of productiveness.
Spring 2011 -- (Sidebar article for Steve Walton is Flying High ) Steve Walton doesn’t just build planes —he flies them too. As a commanding officer in the Blackhorse Brigade of the Virginia Defense Force (VDF), Walton spends at least one weekend a month flying surveillance missions, transporting VIPs, and training for the possibility of natural disaster or terrorist attack in the Washington, D.C. metro area. The VDF is the state guard unit of Virginia. It operates under the military laws of Virginia and provides reserves for the National Guard. “It’s a privilege to give back,” Walton said. “It’s a way for me to continue to serve my state, and my country.”
Philosopher Leonard Peikoff, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, was intimately involved in the thinking and writing that went into The Logic
Induction is the formation of general knowledge from particular evidence. It is induction if you burn your hand once and thereafter always..
Spring 2011 -- In The Logical Leap, David Harriman draws a fundamental contrast between two historically crucial scientific theories: Newton
Spring 2011 -- Steve Walton may well owe his big break to a Saudi prince. In 1996, Walton, a former naval officer, took a position on the
THERE’S A CIVIL WAR RAGING IN MY TOWN. On the Public School Front, my side (call us the “Alliance for Choice”) was recently crushed by the Egalitarian Axis in the Battle of the Universal Pre-K Lottery. Before the battle, well-meaning educated, liberal urbanites were able to say they were committed to public schools, while escaping from the worst urban school blight through competitive magnet schools and the like.
This program addresses Rand's conception of happiness as an end in itself, including differences in her formulations of that end...
This audio program addresses Rand's conception of happiness as an end in itself, including differences in her formulations of that end...
On August 2nd, 2009, The New York Times profiled BB&T’s John Allison , who put Ayn Rand’s principles to work at that bank when he was CEO...
Ayn Rand has been a major inspiration for the Tea Party movement, which has swept a new generation of Republicans and self-described....
March 31, 2003 -- Among the perennial themes in American political life, one of the most crucial is the contest between individualism and
August 14, 2009 -- I am told that today's system of medical care in the United States lets too many people "fall through the cracks.".....
Jim Jeck has consulted on strategy and marketing for small to large organizations from 1995 to the present. Prior to and overlapping with that was an academic career at Duke University and North Carolina State University in the respective colleges of management. Jim was also involved in the NC State College of Engineering’s consulting and outreach function. Jim’s graduate degrees are from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. The Masters is an Executive M.B.A.
While waiting for the jury to reach a verdict in the Raj Rajaratnam “insider trading” case, I was forwarded a tweet from Frank Quattrone that links to an investigation by the Northern California Innocence Project.
Sidebar to: A River Ran Through It Spring 2011 -- The beauty of eastern Kentucky was never apparent to me until I moved to Texas and didn’t see flowers bloom for two years. I flew home during summer for the first time in 2010 and was astounded by the beauty. The leaves were mint-green, the grass was as soft as my mother’s voice. I walked barefoot on mossy banks behind my parents' house and helped my niece pick wildflowers. We ate strawberries fresh from the garden.
I changed careers and philosophies after reading Atlas Shrugged. I read it when I was 28 years old. At that time I was asking questions such
After thousands of years of formal philosophizing and probably a hundred thousand of contemplation around prehistoric camp fires, is there..
Earlier today, the Galleon insider-trading case went to the jury. I see little hope that Raj Rajaratnam will be declared innocent. But we shall find out soon enough. I thought it interesting, though, to reflect that in the year Rajaratnam was born (ca. 1957, the year Atlas Shrugged was published), federal prosecution for insider trading essentially did not exist. It is an economic “crime” that the SEC has basically created out of whole cloth in the last fifty years.
by Sherrie Gossett Spring 2011 -- It’s here: April 15 is the date for release of the much-awaited Atlas Shrugged movie, bank-rolled and tirelessly spearheaded by entrepreneur John Aglialoro, a trustee of The Atlas Society which publishes this magazine. In this issue we feature two articles about the movie: an interview with screenwriter Brian O’Toole (page 12) and a sidebar interview with TNI’s own David Kelley who served as a script advisor (page 17). In one memorable scene from the movie, entrepreneur Hank Rearden explains why he won’t give up his company: “Because it’s mine.” We find the same gritty and admirable determination animating the hard-working townsfolk of Olive Hill, Kentucky, which recently experienced a ravaging flood (“A River Ran Through It,” page 56). Writer Sarah Perry returns home to bring us this moving story of Kentuckians resilient and proud, proud of what they’ve poured their lives into (homes, shops, each other) and proud of what they’ve already overcome. Despite tragedy, many choose to stay. Must the sweet always come with the bitter? Does the faith of the townspeople sweeten the bitter waters of their Marah experience (as in the book of Exodus)?
(February 4, 2011) An individualist life and a harmonious society are only possible because we can apply reason to the production of the values we need. As individuals, the crucial skill on which our lives depend is our ability to do productive work and be responsible for fulfilling our needs. In this interactive webinar, William R Thomas explains and discusses the Objectivist virtue of productiveness.
Spring 2011 -- (Sidebar article for Steve Walton is Flying High ) Steve Walton doesn’t just build planes —he flies them too. As a commanding officer in the Blackhorse Brigade of the Virginia Defense Force (VDF), Walton spends at least one weekend a month flying surveillance missions, transporting VIPs, and training for the possibility of natural disaster or terrorist attack in the Washington, D.C. metro area. The VDF is the state guard unit of Virginia. It operates under the military laws of Virginia and provides reserves for the National Guard. “It’s a privilege to give back,” Walton said. “It’s a way for me to continue to serve my state, and my country.”
Philosopher Leonard Peikoff, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, was intimately involved in the thinking and writing that went into The Logic
Induction is the formation of general knowledge from particular evidence. It is induction if you burn your hand once and thereafter always..
Spring 2011 -- In The Logical Leap, David Harriman draws a fundamental contrast between two historically crucial scientific theories: Newton
Spring 2011 -- Steve Walton may well owe his big break to a Saudi prince. In 1996, Walton, a former naval officer, took a position on the
THERE’S A CIVIL WAR RAGING IN MY TOWN. On the Public School Front, my side (call us the “Alliance for Choice”) was recently crushed by the Egalitarian Axis in the Battle of the Universal Pre-K Lottery. Before the battle, well-meaning educated, liberal urbanites were able to say they were committed to public schools, while escaping from the worst urban school blight through competitive magnet schools and the like.
This program addresses Rand's conception of happiness as an end in itself, including differences in her formulations of that end...
This audio program addresses Rand's conception of happiness as an end in itself, including differences in her formulations of that end...