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Editor’s Note: A long-time supporter of The Atlas Society, Dr. Kyle Ver Steeg shared with Senior Editor Marilyn Moore how Objectivist ethics helped him during medical school and throughout his successful career as a surgeon in private practice. … Read Article
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Editor’s Note: Jay Lapeyre is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Atlas Society. A New Orleans native, he is President and CEO of the Louisiana-based Laitram, LLC, a diversified global manufacturer of industrial equipment, including food pr… Read Article
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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
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Editor’s Note: Alan J. Dlugash, CPA, is a consultant primarily concentrating on tax planning and financial analysis for high net worth individuals and their related business entities. He also consults to small businesses on executive compensatio… Read Article
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Editor’s Note: At 70, John Bechtel is on his third career, and writing and communication skills have been a critical component of his success in all of them. From humble beginnings, and getting a late start, he began working his way through coll… Read Article
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Editor’s Note: Friends and members of The Atlas Society are a major source of wisdom, inspiration, and moral and financial support. Some, at their own peril, bravely fight against socialism and totalitarianism. Vanessa Porras is a political and … Read Article
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April 22 marks the birthday of Vladimir Nabokov. Born in 1899, this writer had similarities to as well as differences from fellow Russian Ayn Rand. But Rand fans will find that his insights on individualism and liberty complemented hers.
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The biggest moment of her life was about to arrive, and Katie Torpey didn’t even care. It was a Saturday night in Los Angeles, and Katie and her husband had dinner plans with friends. Katie, an award-winning screenwriter, was about to have h… Read Article
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Photographer Daniella Zalcman spends a day with the street musicians and vendors of New York City. They might not be wearing suits or working at a computer, but they are taking an entrepreneurial approach to their life:&nb… Read Article
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July 12, 2012 -- In the middle of the last decade, two business professors and a handful of Wall Street Journal reporters called attention to widespread backdating of employee stock options, launching a rich-hunt that cost numerous executives … Read Article
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Last Thursday and Friday a flurry of news stories appeared addressing—again—the link between Rep. Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand’s ideas. The new stories and blog posts were in response to a National Review article (“ Ryan Shrugged ”) which… Read Article
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Forget the gleaming stainless steel skyscrapers. Forget the latest recording equipment, overpaid executives, and auto-tuning. Walk by the ramshackle red-brick building on 115 Troutman Street in Brooklyn, and hear those riveting R&B voca… Read Article
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Editor's note: This article was first published in The New Individualist magazine. Just 10 years ago 3G and Bluetooth were in their infancy; Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube didn’t exist; and there were no mobile app stores. Fast-forward to toda… Read Article
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Photography by Danny Fulgencio
She stood on a bank of snow with an outstretched hand and decades of hope. It had snowed for seven straight days and three-foot drifts lined the tiny town. The woman walked the streets every day, inching al… Read Article
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Photographer Daniella Zalcman captures a day in the life of entrepreneur Yoanne Magris, a French chef who has parlayed her culinary passion into owning and operating an East Harlem bistro called "Yo In Yo Out." Magris, a whirlwind of product… Read Article
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We’ve all seen the headlines : “Insider Trading ‘Rampant’ On Wall St.: US Attorney.” But how many of us stop to ask about the person who lurks behind that title, “US Attorney”?
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Hampton Sides likes to say he was born to tell the story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his assassin, James Earl Ray.
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November 1999 -- Objectivists too often reduce the life and achievement of James J. Hill to a single debating point: He built a transcontinental railroad without government subsidies, and it was the only transcontinental railroad that did not go… Read Article
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NEW YORK CITY — In February of this year, the Danish newspaper Politiken issued a formal apology for republishing a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed clad with a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse. Politiken’s sister newspaper, Jyllan… Read Article
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It’s about 2:30 a.m. when Laurent Prouvost bursts out of the pizzeria into driving rain. He races down Hickory Street after his stolen pedicab, soggy boots clapping against soaked pavement. Already drenched, Laurent’s spent the night pedalin… Read Article
