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Andy McCarthy on the Insider-Trading Case

Andy McCarthy was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, which is where many financial cases are tried. Thus, he speaks with some authority when he explains what he dislikes about...

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An Analysis of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s Statement on the Raj Rajaratnam...

May 16, 2011 -- On May 11, after the trial of Galleon hedge-fund founder Raj Rajaratnam (pictured below) had ended in a conviction on all counts, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New...

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American Anti-Capitalist Exceptionalism

This story in the Houston Chronicle, “Law Makes It Easier to Blow Whistle on Corporate Crime,” written by Philip Hilder, the lawyer for Enron “whistleblower” Sherron Watkins, explains (though not in so...

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America's New Action Hero: Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand’s star is on the rise. From the rowdy Chicago trading floor, to burgeoning tea parties and intense town hall confrontations, to pundits on cable TV, Rand’s ideas have galvanized tens of...

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America's Most Hated

I remarked a while back that, so far during the financial collapse, I had not seen anyone call for business executives to be put to death. Now I have.read more

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America's "Civil War" Debt Battle

August 3, 2011—The major German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that the debt-ceiling battle in Washington had a “civil war atmosphere.” But the war was not confined to atmospherics.read more

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All in Favor Say "I"

capitalism [kap-i-tl-iz-uhm] An economic and political system characterized by a free market for goods and services and private control of production and consumption.The American Heritage New...

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Al Gore's Praise for Capitalism

 Al Gore’s Praise for Capitalism.If you want to hear it, why here it is . Personalizing Responsibility. read more

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Airlines Win Permission to Merge

“(Reuters) - US Airways Group Inc and American Airlines will give low-cost competitors more access to a half dozen key U.S. airports, including New York and Washington, D.C., in exchange for permission...

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A Romantic Manifesto

 May 2004 -- BOOK REVIEW: Alexandra York, Crosspoints: A Novel of Choice (New York: Promethena Press, 2004). 446 pp., $24.95, paperback.read more

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A Philosophy for the 21st Century

When Atlas Shruggedwas published in October of 1957, it spoke to a world that was very different from ours, on the surface at least. Editor's Picks read more

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A Modern Scholasticism: Reflections on Derrida's "Cogito and the History of...

This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 1999 online "CyberSeminar" entitled "The Continental Origins of Postmodernism."read more

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A Message from the Executive Director

January, 2001 -- In the culture wars of our time, the culture that shaped our world has had no voice.  read more

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9/11 and The War Against Modernity

May 2002 -- Why do they hate us? How could they have done this? What were they trying to achieve? Editor's Picks read more

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'It Was Like a Movie': Atrocity and the Arts

November 2001 -- A article from the  Navigator Special: The Assault on Civilization, posted October 12, 2001. Published in the November 2001 Navigator. Editor's Picks read more

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