July/August 2003 -- While collecting entries for this issue's "Cultural Calendar," my thoughts returned to David Kelley's article "For a
April 2004 -- Editor's Note: Charles Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom at the American Enterprise Institute in Washi..
During the fourth century B.C.—we don't know exactly when—a man, a resident of Athens, a student and teacher of philosophy, changed the worl
It seems that SMARTS Software , developed in part by Professor Mike Aitken , has now been sold to 150 brokers worldwide who use “its...
June 12, 2010 -- June is a big month for sports fans. Tennis fans have the French Open, basketball fans have the NBA Finals, and hockey fans
I am always surprised to find a report more sympathetic than I am to businessmen facing legal persecution--and when the report comes from
It seems that Stanley Kurtz has an interesting book coming out this fall: Radical-in-Chief . Even before publication, it is provoking some
Days after the Soviet Union collapsed, and shortly after the Iron Curtain fell, David Kelley delivered this lecture at the University of
The 2006 U.S. elections, which put the Democrats in charge of the House and Senate, were widely described in media as a referendum on the Ir
May 2002-- On December 2, 2001, Enron Corporation filed for bankruptcy. With the company's assets then estimated at $62 billion, it was the
The Department of Justice (sic) has admitted that, as part of a 2007 “deferred prosecution agreement” it entered into with Amex, former
Muhammad Yunus, who founded Bangladesh's Grameen Bank in 1983, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his promotion of micro-financing, and..
AIG. Was Joe Cassano of AIG “the man who crashed the world” as Michael Lewis proclaimed , and as other anti-capitalists such as Gretchen
KaluginWASHINGTON, D.C. July 9, 2010 — In the mid-1960s the Soviets planted a "sleeper" agent in Washington, D.C. whose main "job" was to "
Tom Kirkendall, of the always illuminating “Houston’s Clear Thinkers” blog, writes about the legal troubles at Dell and founder Michael Dell
The Wall Street Journal editorial page apologizes to Conrad Black . This is good to read, although the WSJ editorialists are perhaps the least culpable of all media in the persecution of businessmen. The truly vicious do not apologize. Ungrateful Wretches. According to an article at Forbes.com: “A group of 49 individual ticket buyers who say the proposed $3 billion merger between UAL Corp.’s United Air Lines Inc. and Continental Airlines Inc. would hurt airline industry competition have filed a fuit seeking to stop the deal ( “Ticket Buyers Sue To Stop $3B Continental-United Deal” ). This is the ultimate consequence of all those economic theorists, from Adam Smith on, who have attempted to justify capitalism morally by arguing its subservience to the consumer. The producer must obey the orders of the consumer, they said. Very well, reply these consumers of air travel, we shall give the producers orders, and we shall have them legally enforced. “For Whom the Dell Tolls” Carolyn Horner, writing on the blog OpenMarket.org, argues that the highly competitive market for personal computers should serve as a warning to antitrust persecutors who want to target an
Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead powerfully and credibly depicts how important moral integrity is in maintaining one’s personal independenc
Never religious, Ayn Rand was as potently spiritual as any writer; she knew how to speak in a thoroughly earthly way to those aspirations...
It has long been said that when twentieth-century "serious" music adopted noisy traffic horns or long periods of silence as stand-ins for ..
Equality 7-2521, the hero of Anthem, is twenty-one years old when he escapes to freedom from a totalitarian state. The author of Anthem made
July/August 2003 -- While collecting entries for this issue's "Cultural Calendar," my thoughts returned to David Kelley's article "For a
April 2004 -- Editor's Note: Charles Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom at the American Enterprise Institute in Washi..
During the fourth century B.C.—we don't know exactly when—a man, a resident of Athens, a student and teacher of philosophy, changed the worl
It seems that SMARTS Software , developed in part by Professor Mike Aitken , has now been sold to 150 brokers worldwide who use “its...
June 12, 2010 -- June is a big month for sports fans. Tennis fans have the French Open, basketball fans have the NBA Finals, and hockey fans
I am always surprised to find a report more sympathetic than I am to businessmen facing legal persecution--and when the report comes from
It seems that Stanley Kurtz has an interesting book coming out this fall: Radical-in-Chief . Even before publication, it is provoking some
Days after the Soviet Union collapsed, and shortly after the Iron Curtain fell, David Kelley delivered this lecture at the University of
The 2006 U.S. elections, which put the Democrats in charge of the House and Senate, were widely described in media as a referendum on the Ir
May 2002-- On December 2, 2001, Enron Corporation filed for bankruptcy. With the company's assets then estimated at $62 billion, it was the
The Department of Justice (sic) has admitted that, as part of a 2007 “deferred prosecution agreement” it entered into with Amex, former
Muhammad Yunus, who founded Bangladesh's Grameen Bank in 1983, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his promotion of micro-financing, and..
AIG. Was Joe Cassano of AIG “the man who crashed the world” as Michael Lewis proclaimed , and as other anti-capitalists such as Gretchen
KaluginWASHINGTON, D.C. July 9, 2010 — In the mid-1960s the Soviets planted a "sleeper" agent in Washington, D.C. whose main "job" was to "
Tom Kirkendall, of the always illuminating “Houston’s Clear Thinkers” blog, writes about the legal troubles at Dell and founder Michael Dell
The Wall Street Journal editorial page apologizes to Conrad Black . This is good to read, although the WSJ editorialists are perhaps the least culpable of all media in the persecution of businessmen. The truly vicious do not apologize. Ungrateful Wretches. According to an article at Forbes.com: “A group of 49 individual ticket buyers who say the proposed $3 billion merger between UAL Corp.’s United Air Lines Inc. and Continental Airlines Inc. would hurt airline industry competition have filed a fuit seeking to stop the deal ( “Ticket Buyers Sue To Stop $3B Continental-United Deal” ). This is the ultimate consequence of all those economic theorists, from Adam Smith on, who have attempted to justify capitalism morally by arguing its subservience to the consumer. The producer must obey the orders of the consumer, they said. Very well, reply these consumers of air travel, we shall give the producers orders, and we shall have them legally enforced. “For Whom the Dell Tolls” Carolyn Horner, writing on the blog OpenMarket.org, argues that the highly competitive market for personal computers should serve as a warning to antitrust persecutors who want to target an
Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead powerfully and credibly depicts how important moral integrity is in maintaining one’s personal independenc
Never religious, Ayn Rand was as potently spiritual as any writer; she knew how to speak in a thoroughly earthly way to those aspirations...
It has long been said that when twentieth-century "serious" music adopted noisy traffic horns or long periods of silence as stand-ins for ..
Equality 7-2521, the hero of Anthem, is twenty-one years old when he escapes to freedom from a totalitarian state. The author of Anthem made