The Atlas Society has a new CEO this year, Aaron Day. This press release announces Day’s appointment and background. The release also lists the names of those of us on the newly-constituted Board of Advisors: Ed Crane President, Cato Institute Steve Davis Director of Advanced Projects, SpaceX R. Paul Drake Professor of Physics, University of […]
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The Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy at the University of Wisconsin – Madison is presenting a day-long conference on the moral and legal status of gun ownership today. GUNS IN AMERICA: Conflicting Points of View Gun ownership by private citizens is one of the most hotly debated issues in America today. What
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The Philosophy and Film Series presents the 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. My colleagues Shawn Klein and Matt Flamm will host a screening of the film and a discussion of its philosophical themes. Date: October 11 Place: Severson Auditorium, Scarborough Hall, Rockford College Time: Screening at
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I’ve joined the board of policy advisors of The Heartland Institute, a leading state-level think tank based in Chicago, Illinois. Thanks to Joe Bast and Sam Karnick for the invitation and the warm welcome. My profile is here. Members of the Board of Policy Advisors “participate in the peer review of our policy studies and
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Following up on a series of recent posts on Marxism and its fellow travelers (Engels, Mao, Guzmán, Hobsbawm), a question about whether Marxism’s brutal history is a built-in consequence of its principles or an accidental by-product of well-intentioned theory. So a series of quotations from some principal figures: Marx in 1848: “there is only one
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From his Playboy interview in 1985: “We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We
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I’ll be speaking on Entrepreneurial Ethics this coming Wednesday evening at Wheeling Jesuit University. Some of my remarks will be based on my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship,” and the rest will connect those themes to other works in progress. The talk is part of part of the Distinguished Speaker Series. Thanks to
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My colleague Shawn Klein has organized a trip for Rockford College students to see Atlas Shrugged, Part II on Friday, October 12 at 5:05 pm. Interested students can see the movie for free, courtesy of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. (Only the tickets are free — not concessions or transportation.) Check out the trailer.
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