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 [...]

Today, the McDonald-Laurier Institute, a brand new think tank in Ottawa, Canada, launched it’s website. This organization was just founded last year by Brian Lee-Crowley,  whom many of our readers know,  and will promote sound public policy on a national level. The aim of the organization is to restore understanding and respect for the founding [...]

American political parties are coalitions of local and regional segments.  As recent elections have shown the strongest elements  in an election are the independent voters not affiliated with one of the major parties. In some cases, the independents form fifty-percent of the voters. Sometimes the independents do not pay much attention to local candidates compared [...]

The Freeman has a long and distinguished history in the cause of liberty.
One finds its origins deep in the classical liberal movement. In 1865 William Lloyd Garrison closed his famous The Liberator with passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. But, a number of leading figures felt that the War Between the States had [...]

2010 marks the 10th anniversary of PERC’s Enviropreneur Institute (PEI). Seventeen fellows will be selected to participate in PEI, which will take place in Bozeman, Montana  from June 27–July 9, 2010. PERC’s Enviropreneur Institute is an intense, two-week educational experience in Bozeman, Montana, for environmental entrepreneurs who want to have a better understanding of how [...]

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 [...]

Long time friends of Atlas, the Montreal Economic Institute have recently released a study on executive compensation in the United States and Canada.
” Without denying that errors may have been committed in evaluating appropriate amounts to be paid to executives the authors emphasize that in most cases there is a close  relationship between this compensation [...]

January 19 the voters of Massachusetts administered a severe defeat to the Democratic Party. The special election was held to fill the US Senate seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy who had held it for 47 years after his brother, John F. Kennedy, had held it for eight years. The state is viewed as [...]

Do you ever drive over a pothole and wish it would get fixed, ever feel particularly angry about a recent new tax, and want to let your government officials know how you feel? Now you have that opportunity . The Prometheus Institute has spent the last year working to develop a new application for Iphones [...]

Blogging has been light here over the holidays, but rest assured, we’ll get back to promoting global think tank work on a regular basis soon! For now, I’d like you offer a few exciting highlights from think tanks across the United States:

The Fraser Institute, in Canada, gets a new CEO, Dr. Brett Skinner -Brett’s past [...]