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Ideas e ideologías

Join the Ogre Resistance

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

Jun 22, 2010
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2 Mins
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

Jun 21, 2010
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Eduardo Hudgins
4 Mins
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...

Jun 21, 2010
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Eduardo Hudgins
5 Mins
Discurso Livre e Pós-modernismo

Na última palestra, analisámos os argumentos que ganharam o debate pela liberdade de expressão. Historicamente, esses argumentos foram aninhados em

Jun 11, 2010
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Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
7 Mins
Epistemologia e Política: Comentário Cultural de Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand é mais conhecida pelos seus romances, que continuam a vender centenas de milhares de cópias por ano, e pelos seus ensaios filosóficos sobre

Jun 11, 2010
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Dr. David Kelley
7 Mins
The Asia "Luxe-explosion"

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 Mins
Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers Reviewed

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 Mins
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 de Maio de 2010
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2 Mins
A Ascensão de Eliot Spitzer

Quando a repórter Brooke Masters do Washington Post se propôs a escrever este relato completo sobre a carreira de Eliot Spitzer como Procurador-Geral da New....

21 de Maio de 2010
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7 Mins
How is Marxism different than Objectivism?

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

14 de Abril de 2010
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William Thomas
2 Mins
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...

4 de Abril de 2010
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Eduardo Hudgins
2 Mins
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

4 de Abril de 2010
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Eduardo Hudgins
5 Mins
The Edukators

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

4 de Abril de 2010
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Eduardo Hudgins
5 Mins
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 de Março de 2010
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Eduardo Hudgins
3 mins
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 Mins
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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Eduardo Hudgins
3 mins
Anti-Globalismo e Niilismo

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

Mar 15, 2010
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William Thomas
3 Mins
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 Mins
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 Mins
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 Mins

Promovemos el objetivismo abierto: la filosofía de la razón, el logro, el individualismo y la libertad.