Ideas

Ideas

The Mike Wallace Interview with Ayn Rand

One of the seminal events in my life was reading Atlas Shrugged. To my mind, Objectivism is the only rational modus operandi for the human race. What is interesting in this 1959 interview is how little Mike Wallace understood — or chose not to understand — of what Ayn Rand was actually

Ideas

The Challenge

Most people have heard about the Buffett and Gates challenge to the very wealthy to donate half their wealth to charity. Sounds great, but in the end not particularly effective. What if the challenge instead went to the governments of the world: dedicate half of your military budgets to development