Atlas will hold a Teach Freedom Initiative (TFI) half-day conference on the topic of sound money on April 9th, 2010, at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia, before the Annual Philadelphia Society Meeting.The theme of the conference is “The Attack on Sound Money and Entrepreneurship: Threatening Liberty in America.”
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TFI Conference on Sound Money, Philadelphia, April 9th, 2010
// Mar 03, 2010Privatizing State Universities
// Jan 22, 2010The University of Virginia was founded by retired president Thomas Jefferson about 1819 near his home in Charlottesville. The traditional college, which Jefferson had attended, was William and Mary College established in 1701 as an Anglican university in the then capital, Williamsburg. Over the almost two centuries, the University [...]
Keep Reading →Social Sciences, Civil Society, and Student Protests in Tehran
// Dec 09, 2009The student uprising that has been taking place in Iran these past few months is at once both illuminating and unexpected. Prof. Charles Kurzman, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran (Harvard University Press, 2004), explains this phenomenon in this article discussing [...]
Keep Reading →Press Censorship at Yale
// Nov 19, 2009Sometime in October, Yale University hosted Professor Jytte Kalusen of Brandeis in connection with the launch of her new book, The Cartoons That Shook the World. Little known was a controversy that ensued over a decision made by Yale President Richard Levin and the Yale University Press not to include in her book the 12 [...]
Keep Reading →The Berlin Wall and the Collapse of Communism
// Nov 05, 2009Twenty years ago next week, the Berlin Wall came down. And so did the collapse of a destructive ideology that divided nations and peoples between embracing a way of life that was based on abstractions involving nothing less than a reconstruction of human nature based on communist ideals and living out reality as it is. [...]
Keep Reading →Philadelphia Society Luncheon Talk: “Wealth, Unreality, and Our Virtual World”
// Oct 28, 2009In an inspirational luncheon talk delivered during the regional meeting of the Philadelphia Society held in Indianapolis last week, Professor James Otteson, Professor of Philosophy and Economics at Yeshiva University, gave a thoughtful commentary about a common and spreading malady of our times: it seems that our wealth, our sense of affluence, is insulating us [...]
Keep Reading →Atlas/Sagamore Conference, October 23rd – There is Still Time to Register!
// Oct 14, 2009We are a week away from what promises to be a most interesting conference in Indianapolis. The speakers are a great draw for this event. Each is a trailblazer in their respective fields! With the theme, “The Advance of Liberty: Challenges and Opportunities Around the Globe,” participants of this Atlas/Sagamore co-sponsored conference will have the [...]
Keep Reading →Soaring College Costs and Student Federal Aid
// Oct 07, 2009Yesterday, the Cato Institute Policy Forum and the Pope Center for Higher Education hosted a luncheon discussion, “Taking Control of Spiraling College Costs,” to look for explanations into why college costs are skyrocketing (conference podcast yet to be archived). One explanation is the “unintended consequences” of federal tuition aid, enabling college officials to engage [...]
Keep Reading →Updated: Atlas and Sagamore Institute to Co-Sponsor a Conference in Indianapolis, October 23, 2009
// Sep 16, 2009Please join us for a half-day conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Indianapolis on October 23, 2009, just before the start of The Philadelphia Society’s regional meeting. Our co-sponsor, The Sagamore Institute for Policy Research , which is based in Indianapolis, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank engaged in “applied research,” that is, it puts [...]
Keep Reading →Religious Liberty and Belmont Abbey College
// Sep 09, 2009In an article published by the Pope Center for Higher Education, Jay Schalin, who researches and writes on higher education issues for the Center, points to the growing problem of bureaucratic overreach facing private colleges these days. At stake is nothing less than a religious school’s right to assert its religious liberty based on its [...]
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