Business Rights Center Launches

The Atlas Society has now launched its ground-breaking Business Rights Center, headed by the brilliant editor, writer, and business analyst Roger Donway.

The Business Rights Center (BRC)  is dedicated to defending businessmen who are wrongly defamed by the media and unjustly prosecuted by the government. The BRC also strives to expose and challenge the false premises of today’s post-Enlightenment, anti-business intelligentsia.

From John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan to Michael Milken and Frank Quattrone, America’s greatest producers have been assaulted by journalistic abuse and legal prosecution. The Business Rights Center believes that the explanation for this injustice is to be found in philosophy—and so must be the remedy.

For two and a half centuries, the culture of the post-Enlightenment West has been dominated by what Lionel Trilling called “the adversary culture.” That term designates a social class—comprising politicians and bureaucrats, professors and teachers, journalists and essayists, novelists and filmmakers, artists and caricaturists, ministers and lawyers, philanthropists and lobbyists—who are all united by their loathing for the commercial and technological society that emerged from the Industrial Revolution.

Since 1870, this adversary culture has conducted a withering political assault on the legal foundations of America’s free market society and has thereby effected a transformation of U.S. law that makes ordinary commercial transactions subject to governmental restrictions and legal penalty. Fortunately, many worthy organizations currently analyze the legislative and bureaucractic assault on the free market.

The goal of the Business Rights Center, by contrast, is to call attention to the plight of individual businessmen who find themselves unjustly smeared in the media and pursued in the courts because of these same anti-market principles.

To achieve this goal, the BRC produces the following:

• Investigations of major cases, current and historical
• Backgrounders
• Interviews
• Book reviews
• The "Business Rights Watch" blog
• Editorials and OpEds
• Press releases to major media.

Lastly, the BRC strives to expose and challenge the adversary culture’s philosophical premises, showing how it is those premises alone that make possible the prosecution and demonization of America’s producers—and showing, too, that without the repudiation of such premises, no vindication of business rights is ultimately possible.

To find out how you can support the Business Rights Center, contact Atlas Society executive director David Kelley at dkelley@atlassociety.org.

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