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Le génie productif de Jean-Sébastien Bach

Qu'est-ce qui caractérise un génie ? Si c'est la misanthropie, alors Jean-Sébastien Bach (né le 21 mars 1685) n'était pas un génie. Il a réalisé sa plus grande œuvre en

30 janvier 2012
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3 minutes
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 minutes
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 minutes
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

It is very difficult, if one does not read extensively in seventeenth and eighteenth century thought, to understand quite how speculative

Nov 18, 2011
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Allan C. Kors
10 minutes
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 juin 2011
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Eddie Hudgins
4 minutes
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 juin 2011
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Eddie Hudgins
5 minutes
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 juin 2011
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Eddie Hudgins
5 minutes
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 mai 2011
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Russel La Valle
6 minutes
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 mai 2011
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6 minutes
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 minutes
Revue : "Le saut logique : l'induction en physique

L'induction est la formation de connaissances générales à partir de preuves particulières. Il s'agit d'une induction si vous vous brûlez la main une fois et que, par la suite, vous...

19 avril 2011
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8 minutes
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 mars 2011
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7 minutes
Hors de contrôle : Le cas 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 mars 2011
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7 minutes
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 mars 2011
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Edward B. Driscoll junior
7 minutes
Revue de livres : L'héritage d'un géant intellectuel

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

15 mars 2011
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Edward W. Younkins
9 minutes
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 février 2011
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10 minutes
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 janvier 2011
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Taylor Dinerman
10 minutes
L'égoïsme et le capitalisme contre l'altruisme et le communisme

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

25 janvier 2011
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Brian Gordon
4 minutes
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 minutes
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 minutes

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