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El genio productivo de Johann Sebastian Bach

¿Qué caracteriza a un genio? Si es la misantropía, entonces Johann Sebastian Bach (nacido el 21 de marzo de 1685) no era un genio. Hizo su mejor obra en

30 de enero de 2012
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3 minutos
Review: The Beacon at Alexandria

December 1997 -- The Beacon at Alexandria tells the story of Charis of Ephesus, a young woman living in the late Roman Empire who determine

Jan 26, 2012
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3 minutos
Greenspan: The Man Behind the Money

December 2000 -- Let me be clear from the first: Justin Martin’s biography of Alan Greenspan is a fun read. Written in a vigorous, journalis

Jan 26, 2012
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6 minutos
La filosofía de la Ilustración

Resulta muy difícil, si no se ha leído mucho sobre el pensamiento de los siglos XVII y XVIII, comprender hasta qué punto la especulación

18 de noviembre de 2011
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Alan Charles Kors
10 minutos
Remembering the American Vision?

July 4, 2008 -- July 4, the anniversary of the birth of the United States, is a good time to remember the vision of this country. But to

10 de junio de 2011
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Edward Hudgins
4 minutos
The Berlin Wall Then and Now

I first visited West Berlin in June 1981. I took the closed American military train through the 112-mile-long corridor through....

9 de junio de 2011
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Edward Hudgins
5 minutos
Darwin at 200: A Liberator Like Lincoln

Understanding evolution has helped us satisfy that quintessential human longing expressed by Aristotle: “All men, by nature, desire to....

9 de junio de 2011
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Edward Hudgins
5 minutos
Of Courage Undaunted

In the new year of 1803, America consisted of sixteen states. There were no prairie dogs or grizzly bears. No jackrabbits or bighorn sheep..

30 de mayo de 2011
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Russell La Valle
6 minutos
The Enlightenment Spirit of Edward Jenner

The scourge of smallpox is ancient—Pharaoh Ramses V is thought to have died of the illness in 1157 B.C. Yet smallpox did not become a major

30 de mayo de 2011
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6 minutos
Heroism and the Transcontinental Railroad

When Ayn Rand created a heroic American dynasty for her novel Atlas Shrugged, she based the family's fortune not on oil, or autos, or

May 9, 2011
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Frank Bryan
8 minutos
Reseña: "El salto lógico: inducción en física"

La inducción es la formación de conocimientos generales a partir de pruebas particulares. Es inducción si te quemas la mano una vez y después siempre..

19 de abril de 2011
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8 minutos
Book Review: The Praise Singer

Critics are of two sorts, it has been said: Those who make you want to read the work they are analyzing; and those who make you want to

17 de marzo de 2011
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7 minutos
Fuera de control: El caso de Percy Bysshe Shelley

December 2007 -- The first question to ask upon starting up a vehicle should be: “Where are the brakes?” The first question to ask upon

17 de marzo de 2011
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7 minutos
Book Review: A Century of "Liberal Fascism"

With America committed to war overseas, an American president (who many consider to be racist) suspends vast swatches of American liberties

16 de marzo de 2011
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Edward B. Driscoll, Jr.
7 minutos
Book Review: The Legacy of an Intellectual Giant

Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand share the distinction of being the leading voices for individual freedom and the market economy during the....

15 de marzo de 2011
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Edward W. Younkins
9 minutos
Feminism and the Future

Winter 2010 -- Imagine a rich, new media landscape—one that extols complex heroines whose lives expand a young women's sense of the many...

8 de febrero de 2011
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10 minutos
Book Review: Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War

April 2008 -- If Wernher von Braun had died in 1945 at the end of World War Two, he would have been remembered as the man who led the team..

26 de enero de 2011
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Taylor Dinerman
10 minutos
Egoísmo y capitalismo frente a altruismo y comunismo

To be objective means to be based on features of reality that can be observed or deduced by anyone. Scientific experiments are objective....

25 de enero de 2011
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Brian Gordon
4 minutos
The American Enlightenment's Other Side

The big influences on Hamilton were the economists he read and also the philosophers of natural law and English constitutional law....

Oct 22, 2010
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12 minutos
The Embattled Life of Moreau de Maupertuis

Those who love the Enlightenment spirit are sometimes tempted to believe that it engendered fraternity among the age's disciples. And to an

Oct 22, 2010
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9 minutos

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