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Política

Your Brain on Unity

President Barack Obama took office promoting the need for the country in general—and policy-makers in particular—to overcome petty

2010-4-4
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愛德華·哈金斯
4 分鐘
Tax Wars

April 14, 2005 -- As we rush to meet the April 15 deadline to file our tax returns, many fail to realize that those 1040 forms do more than just make us all personally poorer. The tax code is a principal instrument that creates and sustains the politicized, partisan, uncivil, contentious conflict society that so many bemoan.

2010-4-4
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愛德華·哈金斯
5 分鐘
Saddam Hussein's Execution

January 4, 2007 -- Saddam Hussein is deservedly dead, hanged as the heinous criminal he was. But the process by which justice was

2010-4-4
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愛德華·哈金斯
3 分鐘
Grinding Humans into the Mud

Unfortunately, every Earth Day, even politicians who are not generally known as tree-huggers feel they must pander to the degenerate values

2010-4-4
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愛德華·哈金斯
2 分鐘
Robin Hood and the Robber Congress

April 18, 2005 -- On April 13, the House of Representatives voted to permanently repeal the Estate Tax. More accurately described as the

2010-4-4
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愛德華·哈金斯
4 分鐘
倫敦大屠殺

July 7, 2005 -- On July 7, hundreds of Londoners were killed or injured in vicious terrorist attacks, and Islamists—the same death-worshipin

2010-4-4
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愛德華·哈金斯
3 分鐘
Rejecting the Fetish of United Nations Consensus

Whether one favors the war against Iraq or not, one's attitude towards the United Nations' role is a revealing Rorschach test; those with

2010-4-4
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愛德華·哈金斯
3 分鐘
Affirmative Action and Discrimination

October 3, 2003 -- A group of Southern Methodist University students recently taught a lesson in practical philosophy better than those they

2010-4-4
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愛德華·哈金斯
2 分鐘
The Roots of Peace

On September 11, the metaphor of the war of ideas between rational civilization and tribalist barbarism became literal description...

2010-4-4
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派翠克·斯蒂芬斯
5 分鐘
Happy Birthday, Ronald Reagan

February 6, 2004 -- Today is the birthday of a great man who, tragically, doesn’t know it. Ronald Reagan is 93 years old, but Alzheimer’s...

2010-4-4
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愛德華·哈金斯
2 分鐘
The Government's Envy Engine

Many Americans understandably are concerned about the Bush administration's proposed Terrorist Information Prevention System, a program to

2010-4-4
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瑪德琳·科斯曼
2 分鐘
Why Africa Needs Economic Freedom

As he departed for a tour of Africa, President George W. Bush said the United States rejects "the paternalist notion that treats African

2010-4-4
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愛德華·哈金斯
5 分鐘
On Trading Security for Liberty

October 16, 2001 -- As Congress prepares to pass a new security bill and America faces a terrible and insidious threat, there is no more

Mar 31, 2010
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2 分鐘
諾貝爾經濟學獎

October 18, 2001 -- The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded on October 10 to three economists whose work might have

Mar 31, 2010
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唐納德·庫珀
3 分鐘
Manifest Destiny, 2001

October 18, 2001 -- “Manifest Destiny” is the term originally created by John L. O’Sullivan in the 1840s to describe America's westward...

Mar 31, 2010
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Joy Bushnell
2 分鐘
Jihad Comes to Harvard

June 12, 2002 -- In my Harvard University apartment, overlooking the serene Charles River, I grieve for the Israelis who were murdered last

Mar 31, 2010
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Tal Ben-Shahar
3 分鐘
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
What is the Objectivist View of Law and Government (Politics)?

"Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately

Mar 25, 2010
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6 分鐘
Government, Yes! Leviathan, No!

Greg Hitt and Jeanne Cummings wrote on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (September 26, 2001): "In just two weeks, the terrorist....

2010-3-19
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5 分鐘
Example of Our First President

George Washington unfortunately has become a cliché. For an older generation, he was too often treated as such a mythic figure that it was..

Mar 18, 2010
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愛德華·哈金斯
4 分鐘

Promovemos o objetivismo aberto: a filosofia da razão, realização, individualismo e liberdade.