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From Worldview to Worldstorm

This award-winning documentary was directed by Latvian filmmaker, Edvīns Šnore, and debuted to considerable acclaim at film festivals

Jun 27, 2010
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Jason Walker
10 Mins
Postmodernism and the Jefferson-Hemmings Myth

I concur in the conclusion of the Scholars Commission: the allegation that Thomas Jefferson fathered one or more children by his slave....

Jun 23, 2010
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David N. Mayer
6 Mins
Completing the American Revolution

When forced to assume [self-government], we were novices in its science. Its principles and forms had entered little into our....

Jun 23, 2010
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David N. Mayer
10 Mins
What Kant Wrought

My theme is that, on the German intellectual landscape, Kant is as close to Enlightenment thinking as it gets. From the perspective of most

Jun 22, 2010
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Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
6 Mins
The Postmodern Assault on Reason

I enjoy the teaching very much, particularly since Rockford is a small liberal arts college, which means that our class sizes tend to be...

Jun 16, 2010
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10 Mins
Nationalism: Will It Help a Country Thrive?

Nationalism is the doctrine that a unitary cultural and political entity, the nation, should be the organizing principle of society....

Jun 11, 2010
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William Thomas
4 Mins
When We Walked on the Moon

As a child, I was fascinated by astronomy and space, and I hoped to live to see the day when men would travel to the Moon. In 1969, I manage

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
The Iliad and Islam

June 24, 2004 -- "Sing, oh Goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles, which brought pains a thousand-fold upon the Achaians." So opens the

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Reflections on the Journalists' War Chatter

April 5, 2003 -- I am trained as an economist, and so it especially irks me when ignorant journalists attempt to comment on the economy...

Apr 4, 2010
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William Thomas
5 Mins
What If There Were No America?

June 28, 2003 -- On July 4th, we celebrate the establishment of the United States of America by our Founding Fathers. Since 1776, America

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Book Review: 'The Librarian Who Measured the Earth' by Kathryn Lasky

Few parents or children are likely to visit their local bookstore in search of stories concerning ancient Greek scientists. And that is

Apr 1, 2010
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Mary Heinking
3 Mins
Columbus Day: In Praise of Exploitation

Many critics argue that Christopher Columbus gave us a devil's bargain. In October 1492, that Italian explorer, working for Spain, opened...

Mar 16, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Why Ecology Requires Economics

One is a one-quarter-acre plot in Rwanda. The other is a thousand-acre wheat farm in Australia. Both are failing. In Rwanda, the...

Apr 1, 2005
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8 Mins
Why Art Became Ugly

For a long time critics of modern and postmodern art have relied on the "Isn't that disgusting" strategy. By that I mean the strategy of ...

Sep 1, 2004
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Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
10 Mins
Rockefeller and the Muckrakers

Just as there is much to celebrate in the life of John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), so is there much to loathe in the muckrakers' treatment o

Jul 18, 2004
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4 Mins
What Unites America? Unity in Individualism!

On July 4th, we celebrate the creation of the United States of America. But today, Americans seem more divided than at any time in recent...

Jun 3, 2004
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
The Party of Modernity

As Henry Steele Commager noted in The Empire of Reason: "It was Americans who not only embraced the body of Enlightenment principles, but...

Nov 16, 2003
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Dr. David Kelley
10 Mins
Can There be an "After Socialism"?

Sep 27, 2003
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Alan Charles Kors
10 Mins
How Chile Was Saved

In 1956, an extraordinary three-year agreement on cooperation was signed by the Department of Economics at the Chicago University and the...

Sep 1, 2003
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José Piñera
6 Mins
The Life-Centered Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson

In Atlas Shrugged, Dr. Robert Stadler finds it "outrageous" that a genius such as John Galt would have "performed a major revolution in...

Apr 1, 2003
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Robert James Bidinotto
4 Mins

Promovemos o objetivismo aberto: a filosofia da razão, realização, individualismo e liberdade.