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Da Visão do Mundo à Tempestade Mundial

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
Pós-modernismo e o Mito de 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 Mins
Completar a Revolução Americana

Quando forçados a assumir [auto-governo], éramos novatos na sua ciência. Os seus princípios e formas pouco tinham entrado na nossa....

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

O meu tema é que, na paisagem intelectual alemã, Kant está tão próximo do pensamento iluminista quanto se aproxima dele. Da perspectiva da maioria dos

Jun 22, 2010
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Stephen Hicks Ph.D.
6 Mins
O assalto pós-moderno à razão

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
Nacionalismo: Irá ajudar um país a prosperar?

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

4 de Abril de 2010
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Eddie 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

4 de Abril de 2010
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Eddie 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...

4 de Abril de 2010
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William Thomas
5 Mins
E se não houvesse América?

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

4 de Abril de 2010
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Eddie 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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Maria Heinking
3 Mins
Dia de Colombo: Em Louvor da Exploração

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 Mins
Porque é que a ecologia requer economia

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
Porque é que a Arte se tornou feia

Durante muito tempo os críticos da arte moderna e pós-moderna têm confiado na estratégia "Não é nojento". Refiro-me à estratégia de ...

1 de Setembro, 2004
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Stephen Hicks Ph.D.
10 Mins
Rockefeller e os 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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Eddie Hudgins
4 Mins
O Partido da Modernidade

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 Mins
Can There be an "After Socialism"?

Sep 27, 2003
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Allan C. Kors
10 Mins
Como o Chile foi salvo

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 Mins
A Filosofia Centrada na Vida de Thomas Jefferson

No Atlas Shrugged, o Dr. Robert Stadler considera "ultrajante" que um génio como John Galt tivesse "realizado uma grande revolução em...

1 de Abril de 2003
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Bob J. Bidinotto
4 Mins

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