At first glance, a lot of the social problems and resource waste emerging from government intervention seem pretty easy to fix: the government should just stop doing whatever it is doing that is creating the problems and the waste. The stubborn persistence of institutions and organizations that keep societies poor is a vexing problem for social scientists. In Political Capitalism, the economist Randall Holcombe takes on this problem by analyzing “political capitalism” as a distinct economic system with its own logic and features rather than as some kind of midpoint between capitalism and socialism.

Sep 28, 2020

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Art Carden

"We don’t realistically anticipate that we would be moving to either tier 2 or reopening K-12 schools at least until after the election, in early November.” Those are the words of a west coast health director. No in-person schooling until after the election? Hmmm.Please think about what was said. It reads as kind of a ransom note. Vote for science-reverent candidate Joe Biden, or else….

Sep 21, 2020

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John Tamny

For so many months, it’s been nonstop bad news on business closures, arts trashed, museum shuttering, unemployment, missed surgeries and diagnostics, plus rising loneliness, drug overdoses, depression, and suicide. Every day has been as dark or darker than the previous one.

Sep 3, 2020

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Jeffrey A. Tucker

11 mins

“She was a dangerous woman.”That was the impression Rodrigo Hernandez Mirajes had about Ayn Rand in college. “It was as if she was on a list of banned books,” he recalls. Teachers also dismissed Adam Smith as a crazy, old, white man.

Sep 1, 2020

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5 mins

Why watch COVID press conferences and briefings by politicians? They are just upsetting. These people seem to have no clue about why the virus is ignoring them. They keep issuing strange and arbitrary rules that they make up, change by the day, all enforced by intimidation and compulsion.

Aug 18, 2020

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Jeffrey A. Tucker

5 mins

Parenting is a difficult enterprise, more so when current events throw curveballs in our efforts to foster a benevolent sense of life and the view that the universe is rational and predictable. Here are ten tips to help children cope with their emotional reactions when the world around them is in turmoil.

Aug 16, 2020

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Richard Warshak

7 mins

We are deeply sad to learn that Frank Bond died July 26, age 86, at his home. Frank was a long-time, generous supporter of The Atlas Society.

Aug 12, 2020

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David Kelley, Ph.D.

7 mins

If the 20th century is known as the Age of Anxiety, the current era may become known as the Age of Depression (with a generous side portion

Aug 7, 2020

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Recent legislators, activists, and education reformers have promised to lead us into a new world of equity. No longer will some groups have

Aug 7, 2020

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It seemed a logical question. They were both in their 60s, and they just met. But she had never been on a cruise.

Aug 3, 2020

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4 Mins

From the beginning of this virus, political elites have used the language of war. The invisible enemy would be contained, suppressed, and...

Jul 27, 2020

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Jeffrey A. Tucker

7 Mins

One big factor was exposed after the 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., at the hands of police.

Jul 22, 2020

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3 Mins

As Americans are repeatedly warned about a spike in coronavirus cases just as state governments have begun to allow us leave our homes and

Jun 25, 2020

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The lockdowners probably had no idea what they were about to unleash. On paper, their plans all seemed fine. Keep people apart. Make them

Jun 16, 2020

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Jeffrey A. Tucker

4 Mins

My first wife. I wasn't much of a reader then, but she recommended Atlas Shrugged. She never recommended a book before, but she thought I'd like it. I thought, well that's curious. So I went ahead and started reading it. And the more I read it, the more my attitude changed.

Jun 12, 2020

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Marilyn Moore

7 Mins

I was 27, and wasn’t thinking about how to make myself look younger -- particularly not when dating a man 13 years my senior.

Jun 10, 2020

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Jennifer A. Grossman

7 Mins

During the decade of Cultural Revolution, people experienced horrific events that made their blood boil and eyes tear. People’s suffering, like DR’s father in the hands of the political hooligans, was heartbreaking.

Jun 4, 2020

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tous les jours

6 Mins

I have been asked, as CEO of The Atlas Society: Why did The Atlas Society not take bailout money from the federal government?

Jun 3, 2020

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Jennifer A. Grossman

2 Mins

Many academics, business leaders, and governments are claiming that technology is a critical part of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic

Jun 3, 2020

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Sia Mohajer

5 Mins