Is equality a social value? For equality before the law, the answer is yes: Laws should be applied uniformly to everyone.
Is equality a social value? For equality before the law, the answer is yes: Laws should be applied uniformly to everyone.
Today at 1:00 pm EST William R Thomas and Ed Hudgins will be guests on the Galt's Gulch Live show. Tune in for an Objectivist perspective on current events.
Achievement through productive work is not only an economic necessity for most people. It is also a primary moral value. It brings out the best within us: rationality, initiative, integrity, and pride. These newly republished articles explore the nature and importance of achievement.
A memorial for Nathaniel Branden was held February 22, 2015, at the Ebell of Los Angeles.
Update: Although the live show is over, the radio producers will soon be placing a link to the recorded version here.
President Obama's 2015 State of the Union speech was full of examples of concrete-bound thinking.
As The Economist points out, the State of the Union address is a "ritual" with certain patterns nearly always present.
Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of New York, is half-hearted about economic freedom but is full-on against value-creation.
Who: Ed Hudgins , director of advocacy for The Atlas Society, is a radio guest tomorrow morning on "Your money talks"
October 24, 2014 -- CITIZENFOUR , a documentary about N.S.A. whistleblower Edward Snowden, launches today. To mark the ocassion we present a selection of our articles and videos on the Snowden case and its fallout. (Contributors: Alexander R.Cohen and William R Thomas)
In a speech Sunday, President Obama highlighted the “gulf of mistrust” that separates the police from too many of the Americans they’re employed to protect. He was right to do so. But in focusing on the racial aspect of the problem, the president left out an important cause—and an important part of the solution.Type image caption here (optional)
Last May, two environmentalists tried to shut down a power plant by preventing a boatload of coal from reaching it.
Ed Hudgins's recent quotes to media on tax inversions were syndicated by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and picked up by Bloomberg Businessweek .
Ed Hudgins is quoted in this on congressional proposals to "close a loophole that allows companies such as Cecil’s Mylan Pharmaceuticals
Rep. Justin Amash has just beat back a primary challenge and will now defend his seat in Congress from Michigan’s 3rd District in the general election.
This video is of the July 29, 2014 CATO Book Forum featuring Edward Hudgins, Director of Advocacy, and Senior Scholar, The Atlas Society; with comments by Henry Olsen, Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; moderated by John Samples, Vice President and Publisher, Cato Institute.
President Obama has deployed one of the cruelest weapons of mass destitution in America’s current civil war between producers and expropriators. It’s an idea that will destroy the sense of self-worth and the productive capacity of any individual foolish enough to believe it.
Ed Hudgins, primary author of the #1 Amazon best-seller, The Republican Party's Civil War: Will Freedom Win?, discusses the ongoing GOP civil war.
CATO Book Forum: Feauturing the Atlas Society's book The Republican Party's Civil War: Will Freedom Win?
It’s good to see businesspeople fighting back against destructive regulations. But sometimes what they’re fighting for is less than glorious.