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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleAmerican 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...
View ArticleAmerica'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...
View ArticleAmerica'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
View ArticleAmerica'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
View ArticleAll 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...
View ArticleAl 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
View ArticleAirlines 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...
View ArticleA 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
View ArticleA 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
View ArticleA 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
View ArticleA 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
View Article9/11 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
View Article'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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