Our knowledge of the world, and our ability to act in it, depends on our grasp of causal relationships among things—the ways they act and in
In this presentation David Kelley surveys the history and current state of the Objectivist movement. Truth and Toleration was a monograph...
What is the foundation of human happiness, prosperity, cooperation and freedom? At the 2011 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Whole Foods CEO and...
Just a few years ago, if someone would have told me that a member of Ron Paul’s family would have been invited to speak to an audience of
With the failure of the Bush/Obama stimulus and scandals with “green jobs” (Solyndra, etc.), crony capitalism has been on the hot seat. Big
Atlas Sumit 2012 -- 2012 is the centenary of the birth of one of the greatest modern defenders of the free society, Milton Friedman...
I am a critic of subsidies for green technologies. I don't think it is at all certain how efficient technologies like solar and wind power
President Barack Obama’s inauguration for his second term was held on Martin Luther King’s birthday with Obama’s hand on King’s and...
"Fight to be free." These are the words of Republican Senator and businessman Ron Johnson, and he is so committed to the fight, he had the..
Today at noon, President Obama gave a long-awaited announcement saying that he intends to introduce legislation soon that would ban assault
Atlas Summit 2012 -- The heroes of Atlas Shrugged are rational, productive businesspeople. In Ayn Rand's thought, a career represents the
Notice, first, that the objects of loyalty are human and institutional. One is loyal to a friend, an organization, a spouse, a country...
British Prime Minister David Cameron is urging the leaders of the major industrialized countries to engage in a concerted global war to...
Chicago playwright John Enright discussed his work Wild Flowers at this year's Atlas Summit, and presented a video of the play. Wild Flowers
Atlas Summit 2012 -- We hear all the time that “capitalism is the system that has shaped our world”. However, the fact that capitalism is a
The FTC has ended its investigation of Google with a settlement that interferes—but not as much as some Google competitors had wanted—with
The law required ATMs to advise users of transaction fees both through stickers and through on-screen or printed
Yawn! The world ended again, this time on December 21, 2012, as predicted by the Mayan calendar. Seems few of the actual Mayans in the
In this talk, delivered at the 2012 Atlas Summit, Professor Stephen Hicks presents an Objectivist perspective on entrepreneurship and
As we approach the end of 2012 we continue to see the scenario that Ayn Rand dramatized in Atlas Shrugged playing out in our world. As
