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Human Cloning is Good for All of Us

April 3, 2001 -- Last week, Congress began holding hearings on human cloning. Given the highly charged debate that human cloning is likely

Mar 31, 2010
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派翠克·斯蒂芬斯
3 分鐘
社區服務真的是個好主意嗎?

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

Mar 31, 2010
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愛德華·哈金斯
3 分鐘
客觀主義認為什麼是藝術(美學)?

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value judgments. Man's profound need of art lies in the fact

Mar 25, 2010
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威廉·湯瑪斯
5 分鐘
政府資助與科學進步

發明早已達到極限,我看不到進一步發展的希望......

2010-3-19
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馬利尼·科赫哈爾
3 分鐘
對男人的善意

Dec 17, 2004 -- 耶誕節是一個充滿美麗燈光、派對、禮物、食物、家人、朋友、歌曲和情感的季節。其中

2010-3-19
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愛德華·哈金斯
3 分鐘
Destroying Embryos Is Not Immoral

April 3, 2001 -- Human life begins at conception. Biologically speaking, human life begins when a cell with 23 pairs of chromosomes capable

Mar 16, 2010
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派翠克·斯蒂芬斯
3 分鐘
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 分鐘
Creating Our Own Blessings

Ancient philosophers like Aristotle maintained that we create the most important thing in life for ourselves—our moral character. When

Mar 16, 2010
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愛德華·哈金斯
Dear Virginia, No There is No Santa Claus

December 10, 2001 -- In 1897, Virginia O'Hanlon wrote to The New York Sun: “I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Sant

Mar 16, 2010
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愛德華·哈金斯
3 分鐘
Columbus Day: In Praise of Exploitation

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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愛德華·哈金斯
3 分鐘
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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愛德華·哈金斯
3 分鐘
藝術與理想

2004年2月1日 -- 大約3萬到4萬年前,人類開始在法國南部的Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc等洞穴中製作圖像。

2010-3-15
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David Kelley Ph.D
6 分鐘
Anti-Globalism and Nihilism

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

2010-3-15
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威廉·湯瑪斯
3 分鐘
American Muslims: Cleaning Their Own House

March 28, 2003 -- American Muslims must be feeling despair over the news that Asam Akbar, a sergeant serving in Kuwait and an American

2010-3-15
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愛德華·哈金斯
5 分鐘
The Eccentric Entrepreneur

It’s about 2:30 a.m. when Laurent Prouvost bursts out of the pizzeria into driving rain. He races down Hickory Street after his stolen pedic

Jan 4, 2010
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Danny Fulgencio
8 分鐘
Fashion Forward

If the great cities of the world were personified as women, you might think of Paris as fearlessly avant-garde. New York is, obviously, a...

Nov 30, 2009
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Amanda Erickson
6 分鐘
為什麼我們沒有回到月球?

四十年前的這個星期,1969年7月16日,美國東部時間上午9點32分,阿波羅11號從佛羅里達州甘迺迪航太中心發射升空。四個半...

2009-7-17
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布蘭得利·杜塞
4 分鐘
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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David Kelley Ph.D
6 分鐘
人生:你的創業冒險

企業家精神就是企業精神:雄心勃勃,主動行動,對機會的警覺。這意味著

Jun 1, 2009
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David Kelley Ph.D
9 分
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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小羅伯特·布蘭得利
3 分鐘

Nous promouvons un objectivisme ouvert : la philosophie de la raison, de la réussite, de l'individualisme et de la liberté.