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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The 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 [...]

The 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 [...]

Sometime 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 [...]

Twenty 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.  [...]

In 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 [...]

We 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 [...]

Yesterday, 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 [...]

Please 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 [...]

In 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 [...]