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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 Min.
Postmoderne und der Mythos Jefferson-Hemmings

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 Min.
Vollendung der Amerikanischen Revolution

Als wir gezwungen wurden, [die Selbstverwaltung] zu übernehmen, waren wir Anfänger in ihrer Wissenschaft. Ihre Prinzipien und Formen hatten wenig Eingang in unsere....

Jun 23, 2010
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David N. Mayer
10 Min.
Was Kant angerichtet hat

Mein Thema ist, dass Kant in der deutschen intellektuellen Landschaft dem aufklärerischen Denken so nahe steht, wie es nur geht. Aus der Perspektive der meisten

22. Juni 2010
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Stephen Hicks Ph.D.
6 Min.
Der postmoderne Angriff auf die Vernunft

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 Min.
Nationalismus: Hilft er einem Land auf die Sprünge?

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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Wilhelm Thomas
4 Min.
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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Eddie Hudgins
5 Min.
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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Eddie Hudgins
4 Min.
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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Wilhelm Thomas
5 Min.
Was wäre, wenn es kein Amerika gäbe?

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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Eddie Hudgins
3 Min.
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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Maria Heinking
3 Min.
Kolumbus-Tag: Ein Loblied auf die Ausbeutung

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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Eddie Hudgins
3 Min.
Warum die Ökologie die Ökonomie braucht

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 Min.
Warum die Kunst hässlich wurde

Lange Zeit haben sich die Kritiker der modernen und postmodernen Kunst auf die Strategie "Ist das nicht eklig" verlassen. Damit meine ich die Strategie der ...

1. September 2004
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Stephen Hicks Ph.D.
10 Min.
Rockefeller und die Muckrakers

So wie es im Leben von John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) viel zu feiern gibt, so gibt es auch viel zu verabscheuen, was die Muckraker über ihn schreiben.

Jul 18, 2004
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4 Min.
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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Eddie Hudgins
4 Min.
Die Partei der Modernität

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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David Kelley, Ph.D.
10 Min.
Can There be an "After Socialism"?

Sep 27, 2003
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Allan C. Kors
10 Min.
Wie Chile gerettet wurde

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 Pinera
6 Min.
Die lebenszentrierte Philosophie von Thomas Jefferson

In Atlas Shrugged findet es Dr. Robert Stadler "ungeheuerlich", dass ein Genie wie John Galt "eine große Revolution in der...

1. April 2003
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Bob J. Bidinotto
4 Min.

Wir fördern den offenen Objektivismus: die Philosophie der Vernunft, der Leistung, des Individualismus und der Freiheit.