At a time when a highly infectious biological virus, the coronavirus, is spreading – as is an equally infectious psychological virus, panic – I wanted to take the opportunity to reach out with a message on what we at The Atlas Society are doing to respond to both.
There has been considerable debate on the science of climate change and global warming on both ends of the spectrum from “deniers” to “alarm
I am a classical-liberal intellectual, or at least a student of classical liberalism.I specialize in energy history and public policy. That
Energy is central to Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand also chronicled how the 1970s energy crisis was at root philosophical: altruism-collectivism
On the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, my high school class traveled to the Mall in D.C. to mark the occasion. Me? I skipped the trip
For those who take their health seriously, it’s always a challenge to determine which claims are true and which are fiction. This task is
The arguments for man-made global warming remind me of the argument that eating eggs causes heart disease. ..
Americans cannot tell the difference between ethics and politics. The Indiana religious freedom law—now being amended, it appears—has expos
Atlas Summit 2014 -- He was, arguably, the most inspirational success story of the business era immediately preceding the New Deal. He was
I’m a big fan of the Cosmos reboot series, just as I was of the Carl Sagan original. But the host Neil deGrasse Tyson recently stumbled very
Pope Francis’s Easter message included a prayer to “Help us to overcome the scourge of hunger, aggravated by conflicts and by the immense
September 20, 2013 -- In this State of the Culture update, William R Thomas and Edward Hudgins examine the opposition arrayed against....
The soon-to-be released Fifth United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report will admit that computer predictions for
have energy for every modern convenience, and to encourage us rededicate ourselves to unleashing even more of it....
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
On April 17, President Barrack Obama addressed Americans about rising prices of gasoline, now above $5.00 a gallon in parts of the country..
This weekend, the environment—Hurricane Irene, to be specific—took away my electric power. Beginning Saturday night, I had, in my apartment
I have long argued that the morally twisted beliefs of many environmentalists imply that humans are pollution and that the Earth would be...
Americans recently learned that this is more than a mere cliché; it’s a profound philosophical principle that is under fire from the very in
April/May 2005 -- An unrecognized threat to the liberty and prosperity of each American has spread throughout the country, taking root in
