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Book Review: "Ayn Rand Nation" by Gary Weiss

I recently debated Gary Weiss, the author of the new book Ayn Rand Nation , at the New York Financial Writers’ Association. Weiss invited

Apr 23, 2012
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Victor Sperandeo
6 Mins
Tax Day: Penalizing Producers

Productive individuals find themselves more and more under assault by governments seeking to expropriate their wealth. This is the logical

Apr 17, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Taxed to Shrug

On Tax Day 2012 we’re greeted with the news that some 1,800 Americans, a record number, last year renounced their citizenship or turned in

Apr 17, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
2 Mins
Lessons Not Learned From the Housing Crisis

Two very different narratives attempt to explain the massive housing boom and subsequent crash.

Apr 12, 2012
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James Kourlas
10 Mins
ObamaCare's War on Personal Responsibility

Obamacare mandates that all citizens purchase health insurance. But Supreme Court justices ripped into the administration’s “purchase or be

Apr 11, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
It's Not About Contraceptives

In the furor over requiring employer-sponsored health insurance to cover contraceptives, access to birth control is not the issue, and....

Mar 12, 2012
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Dr. Jane Orient
4 Mins
Suing Apple for Keeping Products from Consumers

On March 8, the front page of the Wall Street Journal carried a weird story. It was weird because it involved what is arguably America’s...

Mar 9, 2012
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Walter Donway
5 Mins
Behind the Scenes at a Physician-Owned Specialty Hospital

The incision Dr. Thomas Tkach makes into his patient’s knee is almost like clockwork. It is Friday morning, and within minutes Dr. Tkach...

Mar 7, 2012
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David Hogberg
4 Mins
Behind the Scenes at a General Hospital

Dr. Eric Logan and First Presbyterian Hospital are pseudonyms, used at the request of the doctor interview...

Mar 7, 2012
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David Hogberg
10 Mins
ObamaCare: Rx for Crisis

When people think of Medicare, they usually think of the government health insurance program for seniors over age 65. They may even recall..

Mar 7, 2012
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David Hogberg
15 Mins
An Economic Defense of Insider Trading

One side effect of the 2008 financial crisis has been renewed attention to the ban on insider

Feb 12, 2012
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Jeffrey A. Miron
4 Mins
The Alan Greenspan Confession

Under pointed questioning by Henry Waxman, the committee chairman, Greenspan issued a mea-culpa that resounded around the world.

Feb 6, 2012
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2 Mins
Canada's Stephen Harper: Radical?

In January, 1962, in the very first issue of The Objectivist Newsletter, Ayn Rand wrote, “Objectivists are...

Feb 6, 2012
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Bradley Doucet
7 Mins
Bharara announces new prosecution

Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the judicial district that includes Manhattan, this week announced his latest prosecution of what he now

Jan 21, 2012
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3 Mins
Rick Santorum: The Most Anti-Reagan Republican

With his virtual tie in the Iowa Caucuses, Rick Santorum is the final flavor-of-the-week conservative alternative to former Massachusetts Go

Jan 5, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
In Memoriam: Larry Ribstein (1946)

We at the Atlas Society and its Business Rights Center mourn the passing of Professor Larry Ribstein, who died of a stroke on December 24...

Jan 4, 2012
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3 Mins
In Memoriam: Larry Ribstein (1946

We at the Atlas Society and its Business Rights Center mourn the passing of Professor Larry Ribstein, who died of a stroke on December 24...

Jan 4, 2012
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3 Mins
Waiting for Gershon

“The law’s delay” is proverbial; there are snails sculpted on the flagpoles at the Supreme Court. But how long should a person sit in......

Dec 29, 2011
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3 Mins
The War in Iraq: All Over But the Doubting

At the Baghdad International Airport today United States military forces lowered the American flag, and, in a ceremony with a long tradition

Dec 21, 2011
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Walter Donway
10 Mins
Christopher Hitchens Remembered

I first met Christopher Hitchens in the early 2000s at the Americans for Tax Reform’s weekly meeting of conservative and limited-government

Dec 19, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
7 Mins

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