Nach einem weit verbreiteten Aufschrei haben europäische Beamte ihre Pläne zur strengen Regulierung des in Restaurants servierten Olivenöls aufgegeben.....

Mai 23, 2013

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This week Tea Party supporters and other individuals gathered in various cities to protest the IRS's targeting of groups based on their...

Mai 23, 2013

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Aaron Day, CEO of The Atlas Society, interviews Jason Sorens on the IRS's denial of non-profit status to the Free State Project . Sorens....

May 20, 2013

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The Atlas Society is pleased to announce that Aaron Day and Ed Hudgins will be speaking at this year's FreedomFest, scheduled for......

May 17, 2013

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May 17, 2013 -- Atlas Society CEO Aaron Day is one of many libertarian leaders to be featured at this year's Porcfest, formally known as The Free State Project's 10th Annual Porcupine Freedom Festival. Aaron will speak on "Open vs. Closed Objectivism."

May 17, 2013

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May 17, 2013 -- Ed Hudgins has been interviewed about the woes of the U.S. Postal Service. The interview was pre-recorded by WNYU Radio. Click here to listen to the interview . (It is the first audio link.) WNYU is New York University's student-run radio station.

May 17, 2013

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Yesterday, I wrote a blog concerning the frustrations that we all face with the IRS and other bureaucracies. Today, my friend Steve Davis..

May 16, 2013

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“The absurdity of its premise — that Dow could escape liability for an illegal antitrust conspiracy because plaintiffs alleged a longer conspiracy than found by the jury — convinces the court that it should not [let Dow off the hook.] ”So said U.S. District Judge John W. Lungstrum, in the only quote on the issue in this Bloomberg report, and at first read it sounds obviously right. Whatever one may think of antitrust law, surely a $1.2 billion illegal conspiracy doesn’t become legal just because the plaintiffs who sued over it were off on the dates. (The plaintiffs said the conspiracy ran from 1999 through 2003; the jury apparently put the start date in 2000.) If you’re accused of killing your wife on a Friday, you shouldn’t get off just because the jury said you did it that Saturday instead.

May 16, 2013

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Ayn Rand wrote the above quote in December 1963. As a result of the recent behavior by the IRS, I fear that our current dusk will turn to in

May 14, 2013

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The Internal Revenue Service has targeted “Tea Party,” conservative-leaning, and even Jewish non-profits for special harassment. There is

May 14, 2013

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Are you excited about the ideas of Ayn Rand? Help us spread Objectivist principles and the ideas in Atlas Shrugged my sharing our memes!

May 14, 2013

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May 10, 1013 — Several days ago Amanda Berry escaped from a house of horrors where she’d been held as a kidnapped sex slave since 2003, along with two other women and her daughter, who was born of one of the rapes she suffered. The details of this shocking crime disgust all decent people and the monster responsible should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

May 10, 2013

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Edward Hudgins

Young America’s Foundation, the parent organization of Young Americans for Freedom , has released a new survey of young Americans . Apparently they’re for freedom. A large majority don’t want the federal government taking “an active role” in their daily lives, and a smaller majority don’t want it taking “an active role” in the lives of Americans in general—aside, of course, from its “essential functions.”

May 10, 2013

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At Farragut Park and other locations in Washington, D.C., food vendors have their trucks parked as usual at lunch time today but they are..

May 7, 2013

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North Carolina Republicans wouldn't recognize free enterprise even if it ran them over—say, with an electric car! Tesla Motors, maker of the Model S, voted Car of Year by Motor Trend and best car in years by Consumer Reports , sells its cars directly. They sell over the internet, and, where permitted, they set up their own stores and sell the cars through them. This threatens the cozy middle-man system that U.S. car dealers enjoy. So the car dealers are fighting back—not in the capitalist way, but in the crony-capitalist way!

May 1, 2013

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On Tuesday, April 30th, Young Americans for Liberty at The University of Colorado Boulder will be hosting an exciting and unique debate over the moral foundations of political liberty , pitting three distinct perspectives against each other to make the case for why each is right and most helpful in the fight for a free society.

Apr 30, 2013

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Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek were notable 20th century advocates of capitalism. They were two of the most important theorists of the free society and defenders of the free society. Both of them based their political views, in part, on theories in epistemology. David Kelley discusses the radical difference in their views on a core epistemological issue, the nature of abstractions. Rand held that we form abstractions from the observation of particular, concrete things. Hayek held the opposite view that abstractions are primary; some are innate, some acquired from our cultural environment, but neither can be independently supported by observation of concretes. Kelley shows why Hayek's view is both false and inconsistent with a fully individualist moral and political theory. [This presentation was filmed at the 2010 Free Minds Conference in Alexandria, Virginia.]

Apr 28, 2013

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David Kelley Ph.D

In an effort to avoid fines, Google has proposed concessions to its rivals and European antitrust authorities.Reuters describes the concessions in a way that seems natural—but it’s worth considering what these concessions actually mean. I’ve commented on two of them; I invite you to consider the others.

Apr 25, 2013

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ESkeptic, the email newsletter of the Skeptic Society, today featured a double book review by The Atlas Society’s Edward Hudgins . Under the title “It’s Getting Better All the Time,” Hudgins looks at Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler and Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, by Robert Zubrin.

Apr 24, 2013

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The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to stop trying to prevent beer makers AB InBev and Grupo Modelo from merging. The settlement is largely as described in my recent column : on the theory that an independently priced Corona limits the price of InBev products such as Bud Light, DOJ is requiring the merged companies to give up control of Corona in the U.S. market. As part of that arrangement, a brewery just south of the border will be sold to Corona’s new maker, Constellation.

Apr 22, 2013

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