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A Romantic Manifesto

Those who love Ayn Rand 's novels have searched, with little result, for works that are similar to Rand's in both ideas and essential

Aug 18, 2010
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5 Mins
O Canto do Amor de Alexandre Papa

Quando se pensa na literatura do Iluminismo (para além do romance recém-emergente), o que nos vem à mente são formas outrora vibrantes afundadas para secar

Ago 17, 2010
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6 Mins
Mozart's Don Giovanni: An Enlightenment Hero?

When I first encountered Don Giovanni 30 years ago, I was struck by the political, social, and philosophical messages in the work...

Aug 13, 2010
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John Kerns
10 Mins
The Victorian Atlas

January, 2004 -- Inventors are of two sorts. The first says: "Here is a principle. How can it be used?" The second says: "Here is a problem

Aug 12, 2010
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3 Mins
Cara Ellison Defende o Atlas

Cara Ellison is one of the very few bloggers who defends fallen businessmen. She is particularly passionate about Enron, where she worked...

Aug 7, 2010
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2 Mins
Lives and Lessons for a Museum of Capitalism

July/August 2003 -- While collecting entries for this issue's "Cultural Calendar," my thoughts returned to David Kelley's article "For a

Aug 6, 2010
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5 Mins
Entrevista com Charles Murray

Abril 2004 -- Nota do editor: Charles Murray é o W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom do American Enterprise Institute em Washi...

Ago 5, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
9 Mins
If You Discover Insider Trading, Can You Trade on Your Discovery?

It seems that SMARTS Software , developed in part by Professor Mike Aitken , has now been sold to 150 brokers worldwide who use “its...

Aug 4, 2010
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2 Mins
A Realização Humana de Charles Murray

During the fourth century B.C.—we don't know exactly when—a man, a resident of Athens, a student and teacher of philosophy, changed the worl

Aug 4, 2010
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10 Mins
Porque é que os fãs do desporto são tão tendenciosos?

12 de Junho de 2010 -- Junho é um grande mês para os fãs do desporto. Os fãs de ténis têm o Open de França, os fãs de basquetebol têm as finais da NBA, e os fãs de hóquei

Ago 3, 2010
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Bradley Doucet
5 Mins
Wyly Update: Insider-Trading Charge Is "Edgy"

I am always surprised to find a report more sympathetic than I am to businessmen facing legal persecution--and when the report comes from

Jul 31, 2010
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2 Mins
Porque é que Payola é ilegal? O caso Univision

It seems that Stanley Kurtz has an interesting book coming out this fall: Radical-in-Chief . Even before publication, it is provoking some

Jul 30, 2010
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2 Mins
The Collapse of a Postmodern Corporation

May 2002-- On December 2, 2001, Enron Corporation filed for bankruptcy. With the company's assets then estimated at $62 billion, it was the

Jul 12, 2010
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8 Mins
Cassano foi "o homem que destruiu o mundo"?

AIG. Was Joe Cassano of AIG “the man who crashed the world” as Michael Lewis proclaimed , and as other anti-capitalists such as Gretchen

Jul 11, 2010
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2 Mins
Micro-Financing: Profit vs. Altruism

Muhammad Yunus, who founded Bangladesh's Grameen Bank in 1983, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his promotion of micro-financing, and..

Jul 11, 2010
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2 Mins
Former KGB Officer Cites Soviet Plan to Sabotage D.C.

KaluginWASHINGTON, D.C. July 9, 2010 — In the mid-1960s the Soviets planted a "sleeper" agent in Washington, D.C. whose main "job" was to "

Jul 10, 2010
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2 Mins
Michael Dell Passes the Apple Test

Tom Kirkendall, of the always illuminating “Houston’s Clear Thinkers” blog, writes about the legal troubles at Dell and founder Michael Dell

Jul 8, 2010
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3 Mins
Ayn Rand's Anthem: An Appreciation

Equality 7-2521, the hero of Anthem, is twenty-one years old when he escapes to freedom from a totalitarian state. The author of Anthem made

Jul 7, 2010
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Stephen Cox
10 Mins
Frank Lloyd Wright e Ayn Rand

Nunca religiosa, Ayn Rand era tão potentemente espiritual como qualquer escritor; ela sabia falar de uma forma completamente terrena para essas aspirações...

Jul 7, 2010
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Peter Reidy
10 Mins
Compreender as personagens principais de The Fountainhead

O romance de Ayn Rand The Fountainhead descreve de forma poderosa e credível a importância da integridade moral na manutenção da própria independência pessoal

Jul 7, 2010
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Robert James Bidinotto
3 Mins

Promovemos o objetivismo aberto: a filosofia da razão, realização, individualismo e liberdade.