310 Articles tagged with: Ideas and Ideologies

• Member Spotlight: Jaroslav Romanchuk

  Editor’s Note: Jaroslav Romanchuk lives in Minsk, Belarus. He is the Executive Director of the Analytical Center “Strategy,” President of the Scientific Research Mises Center, and was a candidate for President of Belarus in 2010. He won the … Read Article

• Rand Rising: A Member Spotlight with Jennifer Bukowsky

  Editor’s Note: Members and friends of The Atlas Society provide us with a wealth of wisdom. Atlas Society supporter Jennifer Bukowsky is an award-winning trial and appellate criminal defense attorney in Columbia, Missouri. She and her husband Br… Read Article

• Make America Grateful Again: An Antidote to Envy and Entitlement

  Editor's Note: The following is a transcript of Jennifer Grossman's remarks at the Libertarian Party California Convention on February 16, 2020 in Culver City, California.

  Thank you so very much for inviting me.  I know the relationsh… Read Article

• Civilization's Precondition - Freedom from Restrictions Imposed by Others

   

   

  I love civilization. It’s a hard concept to define exactly and one from which many thinkers flee.

  To me it means an environment of unfettered creativity - the cultural climate where an individual may reach a… Read Article

• “Say ‘No’ to Victimhood”

  TPUSA News Interview with Jennifer Anju Grossman

  JT: Well Good morning Miss Grossman, It’s such a pleasure to have you here.JAG: Thank you, I’m so excited to be here.JT: So right off the bat, what advice do you have to the thousands of young … Read Article

• Ayn Rand and I, Part 1

  A blog by George H. Smith

  I never met Ayn Rand. I never saw her in person. I never corresponded with her. Yet this woman was to exert a profound influence on my life.

  I first learned of Ayn Rand in 1967, during the first of her three appe… Read Article

• Where Brawn Meets Brain

  Maybe it was the cover of Atlas Shrugged that caught the attention of the weight-lifting community.  Artist Nick Gaetano’s iconic cover art depicts a mountain of a man, chiseled and sculpted, lifting the weight of the world on his shoulders… Read Article

• Rape Culture Carping

  A few years ago, when my 90 year old grandmother was still alive, I told her to make sure she kept her ground floor windows shut to discourage any intruders so that she wouldn’t get raped. “Pfft!” she sniffed, then smiled. “Chance would be… Read Article

• Smacking Down Postmodern Art

  It is rare in our contemporary postmodern culture that its representatives get a smack down. But that is what happened with the Tyler Shields' photoshoot with Kathy Griffin holding a realistically-rendered decapitated head of Donald Trump… Read Article

• Did Ayn Rand Foresee the Culture Wars?

  Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work… when you go to church… when y… Read Article

• Meet The Girl Boss: A Feminist in Capitalist Clothing

  “She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To hell with that, she thought—and never worried about it again.”  This is as close to a glimmer of feminist… Read Article

• Pope Francis Attacks Objectivism in All but Name

  Ayn Rand delved into some of Objectivism’s most fundamental ideas—and their most poignant personal implications—in the essay she devoted to the 1967 encyclical by Pope Paul VI, Populorum Progressio (“on the development of peoples.”)

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• Art and Judgment

  Over three decades ago, in 1982, I booked a private telephone consultation with an Objectivist philosopher (associated now with the Ayn Rand Institute) on reading The Romantic Manifesto, Ayn Rand’s classic non-fiction work on aesthetics.

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• The Objectivist Crisis – and the John Allison Cure

  Recently I was invited back by economist and professor Mark Skousen to teach his business school class at Chapman University – the topic: John Allison’s excellent book, The Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure.

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• Public Opposition to Biotech Endangers Your Life and Health

  Do you want to be smarter, healthier, and live longer? Remarkably, a new Pew survey found that most Americans answer “No!” if it requires using certain new technologies. This is a wakeup call for scientists, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, trans… Read Article

• Video to Rectify Minimal Understanding of Minimum Wage

  Quick quiz: If you jack up the price of something, do you think people will buy more or less of it? Apparently, the obvious answer “Less!” eludes the folks who argue that if the government forces employers to pay all workers a $15 minimum wage… Read Article

• 5 reasons to attend the Atlas Summit

  I’m a great fan of the Atlas Summit and hope you’ll attend! You might think that, because I work for the Atlas Society, I’m obliged to recommend our annual Summit. But it’s the other way around. Because I went to annual Summits, I chose to… Read Article

• How Hungarian Milk Explains Brexit

  A conversation I had a dozen years ago in Hungary about that country’s milk helps explain why the British voted to leave the European Union.

  As part of the Hungarians’ efforts to transform their economy after communism, they planned to… Read Article

• Memorial Day: Honoring Warriors and Stopping Wars

  On Memorial Day, Americans honor those who died in their country’s wars. But the key to stopping deaths in wars—and the wars that regimes wage on their own citizens—is victory in the war of ideas.

  The casualties of war

  The … Read Article

• How to Celebrate “Be a Millionaire Day”

  I don’t know who determined that May 20 should be “Be a Millionaire Day,” though it is a good idea. I do know that most people’s ideologies wreck their chances to earn big bucks.

   

  Be a millionaire: the how-to part

  The wa… Read Article