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Ideias e ideologias

Join the Ogre Resistance

It looks as though Dreamworks could not have come up with a better slogan for its final Shrek movie: After

22. Juni 2010
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2 Min.
Five Superstitions that Harm Haiti

The earthquake in Haiti that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and inflicted untold misery on the inhabitants of that country has

21. Juni 2010
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Edward Hudgins
4 Min.
Happy-Face Totalitarian Commercials

The first was the “Green Police” advertisement for Audi that was broadcast during this year’s Super Bowl. It starts with a clerk asking a...

21. Juni 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Min.
Freie Meinungsäußerung und Postmodernismus

In der letzten Vorlesung haben wir uns mit den Argumenten befasst, die die Debatte um die Redefreiheit gewonnen haben. Historisch gesehen, waren diese Argumente eingebettet in

Jun 11, 2010
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Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
7 Min.
Erkenntnistheorie und Politik: Ayn Rands Kulturkommentar

Ayn Rand ist vor allem für ihre Romane bekannt, die nach wie vor jedes Jahr Hunderttausende von Exemplaren verkaufen, sowie für ihre philosophischen Essays über

Jun 11, 2010
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Dr. David Kelley
7 Min.
Die asiatische "Luxusexplosion"

In Tokyo, 94% of women in their 20s own a Louis Vuitton bag. Hong Kong boasts more Gucci and Hermes stores than Paris. China’s passion for l

Jun 7, 2010
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Radha Chadha
4 Min.
Malcolm Gladwells "Ausreißer" im Test

Begin with the title. An “outlier,” in statistics, is an observation so far outside the general range of one’s data as to indicate a possibl

Jun 3, 2010
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10 Min.
The Left Endorses Abstinence-Only

Liberals have given conservatives much grief over the years for advocating an abstinence-only approach to sex education. “Kids are going....

30. Mai 2010
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2 Min.
Der Aufstieg von Eliot Spitzer

Als die Reporterin der Washington Post, Brooke Masters, sich anschickte, diesen ausführlichen Bericht über Eliot Spitzers Karriere als Generalstaatsanwalt von New....

21. Mai 2010
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7 Min.
Wie unterscheidet sich der Marxismus vom Objektivismus?

Marxism and Objectivism are similar in very few respects: —They are systems of thought. But Marxism is primarily a political and economic

14. April 2010
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Wilhelm Thomas
2 Min.
The Englishwoman and the Naughty School

December 10, 2003 -- Rarely has the moral decadence of the philosophy that places "society" above the individual been better illustrated...

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
2 Min.
Uncharitable Attack on Charity

June 12, 2009 -- Americans are historically a generous people. Thus it’s shocking to see the National Committee for Responsible Philanthropy

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Min.
Die Edukatoren

September 8, 2005 -- Another example of how Europeans and Americans are drifting apart culturally and politically can be seen in the film

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Min.
Is Community Service Really a Good Idea?

April 22, 2002 -- President Bush has declared the fourth week of April to be National Volunteer Week. This is a follow-up to his call for al

31. März 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Min.
Decline Demands Philosophers, Not Censors

January 1, 2001 -- "Is civilization really going down the tube?" asked New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman in an article entitled...

Mar 16, 2010
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3 Min.
Celebrating Apollo 11's Sense of Life

July 20, 2004--It has been three and a half decades now since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first of a dozen men to walk on the

Mar 16, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Min.
Antiglobalismus und Nihilismus

July 25, 2001 -- This week, people will travel inexpensively from all over the globe to Genoa, Italy—to protest the policies that made their

15. März 2010
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Wilhelm Thomas
3 Min.
Obama's Era of Responsibility

“What is required of us now,” said President Barack Obama in his inaugural speech, “is a new era of responsibility—a recognition, on the....

Jun 30, 2009
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Dr. David Kelley
6 Min.
Life: Your Adventure in Entrepreneurship

The entrepreneurial spirit is the spirit of enterprise: ambition to succeed, initiative in taking action, alertness to opportunity. It mean

Jun 1, 2009
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Dr. David Kelley
9 Min.
What Happened to Business Prudence?

More than 200 years ago, Adam Smith determined that economic self-interest advanced the wider commercial good as if led by an invisible hand

Jun 1, 2009
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Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
3 Min.

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