An Echo of Will Thomas's Latin America Tour

Last month, Navigator reported on the week that IOS visiting fellow Will Thomas spent in Argentina and Uruguay at the invitation of the Buenos Aires-based Fundación Atlas para una Sociedad Libre (Atlas Foundation for a Free Society). It was, by his report, "a whirlwind of talks, interviews, dinners, and meetings."

One of the interviews Thomas gave was to the newspaper La Razón, and, as the photo nearby demonstrates, the result was prominent coverage indeed for Thomas and Objectivism in the business supplement of La Razón on November 24..

As translated by Thomas, the headline reads "The Trader Ethic and Objective Philosophy." And the summary paragraph goes on to say: "The North American economist states that 'in the United States, just as in Argentina, there is a great deal of concentration of industry, that deepens with the advance of technology, and later become a process of destruction. This is what the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter defined a 'creative destruction.'"

The first paragraph of the story states: "The Enlightenment economic philosophy of liberalism raised its voice in Argentina through the visit of the economist William R Thomas, who spoke at several seminars on the ethic of the trade and Objectivist philosophy."

The headline of the sidebar says: "The critical vision of an objectivist." And the sidebar's first paragraph says: "The Objectivist ethics, the basis of the thought of William R Thomas, holds that the human good does not require human sacrifices, and cannot be achieved by sacrificing some to the benefit of others.