Results for “Rand Institute”

…l is routinely labeled a libertarian. On a bookshelf in the apartment, as if in confirmation, is a hardback copy of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” the bible of the movement. A gift, he said. A lesser-known but possibly deeper influence was the French philosopher René Girard, who ta...

…rry out their mission. For example, in 1969, the cel- ebrated whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst at the Rand Corporation, had an accomplice, Anthony Russo, who had also worked at Rand. (Both were indicted by the government.) Acting in concert, they copied secret d...

former Fed Chair Greenspan conceded that his Ayn Rand

former Fed Chair Greenspan conceded that his Ayn Rand philosophies regarding regulations and

reducing Washington’s ability to place focused attention and pressure on China.” [Rand report]

is a hardback copy of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged

…ble at http://www.justice.gov/criminal/ fraud/fcpa/cases/nordiskn/05- 1 1-09novo-info.pdf; Complaint, SEC v. Ingersoll-Rand Company Ltd., No. 07-cv-1955 (D.D.C. Oct. 31, 2007), ECF No. 1, available at http://www.sec.gov/litigation/ complaints/ 2007 / comp20353.pdf; Criminal Info...

…ssibilities: one in which defection is relatively tempting, and another in which it is not. The temptation to defect is randomly determined. Defection is not tempting with probability p and tempting with probability 1 − p. Both players know how likely it is that defection is temp...

…anized...”—Rebecca Shabad, “Former Rep. Ron Paul launches petition for Snowden clemency,” The Hill, February 13, 2014. “Rand Paul” support, see Katie Gluck, “Rand Paul Backs Snowden,” Politico, January 5, 2014 “We actually buy cell phones...” Snowden quoted in “New Guardian Inter...

…tware engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, when he became fascinated with the work of Paul Rand and Muriel Cooper. Cooper was a director of MIT’s Visual Language Workshop. After completing his bachelors and masters degrees at MIT, Maeda studied in Jap...

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…ede to either more sanctions or the use of force until Iran's objections are taken into full consideration. As such, a grand deal that is supposed to provoke a moment of clarity is likely to be enmeshed in the existing, protracted arms-control process. Another complication is the...

About the Participants Robert Daly is Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Larry Diamond is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studi...

The Washington Institute Year of Decision: U.S. Policy toward Iran in 2013 James F. Jeffrey and Thomas Pickering February 12, 2013 -- On February 7, 2013, James F. Jeffrey and Thomas Pickering addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Ambassador Jeffrey, a former a...

…T and other arms of the Russian global media apparatus actually influence the debate about Russia is unclear. RT makes grandiose claims of high viewership, but some analysts believe that its audience in the United States and elsewhere is much lower than asserted, and that its siz...