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Summer Seminar 2009 Announcement

In order to focus our efforts on other priorities, principally on a new, first-class website, The Atlas Society will not be holding a Summer Seminar in 2009. (12/29/2008)

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Scholarships for graduate students for the 2009-10 academic year: apply by March 1, 2009  (12/12/2008)

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Choosing Life In this seminal essay, David Kelley discusses the basic moral choice of Objectivism in theory and in practice.

Understanding the Credit Crisis Today's crisis in banking and home loans became unavoidable when the federal government initiated policies that obliterated personal self-responsibility.

Hudgins Quoted in Boston Globe on John McCain Dr. Edward Hudgins was quoted in a September 18, 2008 Boston Globe article criticizing Republican presidential candidate John McCain's endorsement of greater goverment economic regulation as an example of a lack of ideological and economic principles.

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Reports From The Front

Will America Unite in One Obama? — Edward Hudgins (12/29/2008)

Obama Chicks in Bondage — Edward Hudgins (10/24/2008)

The Credit Crisis and Moral Hazards — Eugene Holloway (10/16/2008)

Anger and Understanding in the 2008 Campaign — Edward Hudgins (10/14/2008)

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