What happens when Atlas stops holding up the world? In Ayn Rand’s famous (and if I may add brilliant) novel Atlas Shrugged, the producers of the world eventually get fed up with government’s continuous strangling harassment and quit. Spoiler alert: The world doesn’t fare well without the producers who keep society moving…working…innovating…building. Now, imagine a…
Among economists’ insights over the last almost 250 years, one of the keenest is that one can do good while doing well. The idea traces to Adam Smith. It means capitalists’/entrepreneurs’ pursuit of profit can have favorable consequences for the community at large—and not just for capitalists and entrepreneurs. It applies equally to landowners and…
Punk rock was the anthem of an era. The theme-song of a decade. The voice of a generation. Everything about ripped jeans, combat boots, sneering teenagers, and the screaming lyrics of the Sex Pistols to the rhythmic mumbles of the Ramones defined disdain for control. The headquarters of Punk was a bar in the Hell’s…
By Kitty Testa Politico recently ran a story lauding the fact that women are now captains of the war industry. How women took over the military industrial complex details how the five biggest defense contractors, as well as top arms negotiators in the U.S. government, are all women. With Gina Haspel heading up the CIA,…