Judy Shelton Keynotes TFI Conference on Sound Money
On April 9, 2010, Atlas held a Teach Freedom Initiative conference at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia. The theme of the conference is “The Attack on Sound Money and Entrepreneurship: Threatening Liberty in America.” Judy Shelton, Atlas’s Senior Fellow, gave the luncheon keynote talk on “The Attack on Sound Money.” Learn more about [...]
TFI Conference on Sound Money, Philadelphia, April 9th, 2010
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.” This mini-conference will begin with [...]
Privatizing State Universities
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 of Virginia has gained the highest [...]
Social Sciences, Civil Society, and Student Protests in Tehran
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 [...]
Press Censorship at Yale
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 [...]
The Berlin Wall and the Collapse of Communism
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. [...]
Philadelphia Society Luncheon Talk: “Wealth, Unreality, and Our Virtual World”
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 [...]
Atlas/Sagamore Conference, October 23rd – There is Still Time to Register!
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 [...]
Soaring College Costs and Student Federal Aid
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 in [...]
Updated: Atlas and Sagamore Institute to Co-Sponsor a Conference in Indianapolis, October 23, 2009
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 [...]
Religious Liberty and Belmont Abbey College
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 [...]
Fall Meetings: Philadelphia Society and Atlas’s TFI
The Philadelphia Society will hold its regional meeting on October 23-24 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The theme of this meeting is Pursuit of Truth: Inside and Outside the Academy. The conference promises a distinguished group of scholars who will address critical challenges facing higher education these days, ranging from issues as sublime as the purposes of [...]
FSSO Reception To Honor Peter Berger
The Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation is hosting a reception in honor of Peter L. Berger, Professor Emeritus of Religion, Sociology and Theology at Boston University, on September 9th, 2009 at George Mason University School of Law. Professor Berger is the recipient of the Fund’s Lifetime Achievement [...]
Great Books Summer Program
Philosophizing is not exactly a fun way to spend one’s summer. But that does not seem to be the case with the young students, ages 12 to 17, who are enrolled in the Great Books Summer Program. An annual program offered at either Stanford University or Amherst College, it is designed to make these “precocious [...]
Progressive Policy and the Decline of Detroit
In this insightful piece, “Detroit: The Triumph of Progressive Public Policy,” Jarrett Skorup, a research intern at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, points to a correlation between progressive public policy and the decline of Detroit as a city that used to enjoy the reputation of being the wealthiest city in America in 1950. According [...]
Atlas’s Sound Money Project on Facebook
In our desire to reach as many folks who can contribute to sound money literacy as possible, Atlas has recently created a Facebook group to open a forum where students and professors alike can discuss issues related to sound money. The site offers excellent articles written by monetary scholars and policy experts. As a reminder [...]
Perverse Incentives Drive Up Tuition and Operating Costs in Higher Education
College education does not come cheap these days. Year after year, colleges and universities increase their tuition fees without offering a reasonable explanation to those who foot the bill. Parents lament over how they can keep up with these out-of-control financial demands imposed on them by university administrators who seem unaccountable for the decisions they [...]
Law and Economics Program in El Salvador, May 2010
Professor Juan Javier del Granado, Academic Dean at Alben Barkley Law School and Director of the Latin American and Carribean Law and Economics Center at George Mason Law School, has just announced that next year’s Law and Economics meeting will be held at the Escuela Superior de Economia y Negocios (ESEN) in El Salvador. Law [...]
Lopsidedness in University Curriculums
“A university curriculum that omits the study of ideas that promote moral and intellectual excellence, defends individual liberty against democratic and egalitarian threats, explains the claims of religion in educating citizens for liberty, and jealously guards free-market capitalism against established ways, in order to make room for progressive ideas is a curriculum that deprives students [...]
Economic Liberalism and the “Grand Liberal Project”
In this five-segment series, Charles Kesler, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and editor of the Claremont Review of Books, explains the different waves of liberalism that have emerged in American politics since a century ago. Posted on the National Review Online, Chapter 2 of the interview deals with the issue of economic liberalism [...]
Democratized North Korean Intelligence
This may come as old news for those who regularly read the Wall Street Journal, but I was reminded of the story after reading again today about the plight of the two American journalists being held in North Korea for allegedly illegally crossing into the country from China. On May 22nd, the WSJ featured a [...]
A Proposed Institute in Honor of Jack Kemp
To honor the memory of Jack Kemp and his policy contributions to entrepreneurial capitalism, Pepperdine University has launched initial efforts toward establishing the Jack F. Kemp Institute for Political Economy at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy in Malibu, California. It is both proper and fitting for, as Steve Forbes, chairman and CEO of Forbes, [...]
Walter Williams on the Role of Government in a Free Society
The Center for Vision & Values recently held its fifth annual conference, “Faith, Freedom, and Higher Education: A Vision for the Soul of the American University,” (April 16-17, 2009 at Grove City College), addressing the challenges that threaten faith and freedom in higher education. Dr. Walter Williams, economics professor at George Mason University, delivered the [...]
