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James D. Watson: Another Gadfly Swatted

The last chapter of James Watson’s story began as he was preparing to launch a book tour through Britain to promote his latest and...

Jan 28, 2011
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8 Mins
Hellhound on His Trail

Hampton was 6 when his hometown snapped. His father worked for the Memphis law firm that represented King when the civil rights leader led..

Dec 13, 2010
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Noah Bunn
10 Mins
Check Your Premises

“Check your premises” is an injunction that runs as a subtheme through Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged , and it is a phrase that seems to...

Nov 28, 2010
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3 Mins
The Internet in Closed Societies

Apparently the World Wide Web isn't as worldwide as it could be. The Internet—the centerpiece of the "new economy" technology that was

Oct 18, 2010
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Patrick Stephens
4 Mins
The Intellectual as Barbarian

January 2002 -- The assault on civilization did not begin with the terrorist attacks of September 11. As Objectivists know, such an assault

Oct 13, 2010
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5 Mins
The Galleon Case Has It All

The Business Rights Watch covers a number of different issues: Overcriminalzation is one, obviously, the process of making illegal that whic

Sep 30, 2010
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3 Mins
Two Cheers for John Tierney

February 2002 -- Why is the New York Times better on Tuesdays and Fridays than it is on any other day? Because on those days the paper's....

Sep 7, 2010
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5 Mins
David Segal and the Art of Sneering

David Segal begins his extended New York Times story on the SEC’s suit against Sam and Charles Wyly with several paragraphs denigrating

Aug 23, 2010
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2 Mins
Nat Hentoff and David Kelley on Libel Laws, Pro and Con

libel laws pro and conFrom Libertarianism.org: "In this video from a 1986 Free Press Association event, Nat Hentoff and David Kelley engage

Aug 15, 2010
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2 Mins
Cara Ellison Defends Atlas

Cara Ellison is one of the very few bloggers who defends fallen businessmen. She is particularly passionate about Enron, where she worked...

Aug 7, 2010
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2 Mins
Wyly Update: Insider-Trading Charge Is "Edgy"

I am always surprised to find a report more sympathetic than I am to businessmen facing legal persecution--and when the report comes from

Jul 31, 2010
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2 Mins
Was Cassano "the Man Who Crashed the World"?

AIG. Was Joe Cassano of AIG “the man who crashed the world” as Michael Lewis proclaimed , and as other anti-capitalists such as Gretchen

Jul 11, 2010
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2 Mins
Michael Dell Passes the Apple Test

Tom Kirkendall, of the always illuminating “Houston’s Clear Thinkers” blog, writes about the legal troubles at Dell and founder Michael Dell

Jul 8, 2010
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3 Mins
Instant Books and Instapundits

In its heyday, the instant book was an invaluable resource. Appearing shortly after a major news event, the tome would give a complete news

Jun 29, 2010
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6 Mins
Join the Ogre Resistance

It looks as though Dreamworks could not have come up with a better slogan for its final Shrek movie: After

Jun 22, 2010
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2 Mins
Reflections on the Journalists' War Chatter

April 5, 2003 -- I am trained as an economist, and so it especially irks me when ignorant journalists attempt to comment on the economy...

Apr 4, 2010
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William Thomas
5 Mins
Can Reporters Handle the Truth?

On August 5, 2006, Reuters published a photograph of smoke rising over Beirut from buildings hit by Israeli bombs. It was one of many

Apr 1, 2007
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David Kelley Ph.D
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Profile: The New York Times's Gretchen Morgenson

In 2005, at Minnesota’s St. Olaf College, the stirring peroration of that year’s commencement address advised the graduating seniors to

Apr 1, 2007
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10 Mins
Cartoon Journalists

But for advanced lessons in this craven policy, which I hereby dub “anticipatory capitulation,” I direct American “journalists” to study...

Dec 1, 2005
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Robert James Bidinotto
7 Mins

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