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Продуктивный гений Иоганна Себастьяна Баха

Что отличает гения? Если это мизантропия, то Иоганн Себастьян Бах (родился 21 марта 1685 года) не был гением. Свои величайшие работы он выполнил в

30 января 2012 г.
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3 мин
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 мин
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 мин
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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Alan Charles Kors
10 минут
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

Jun 10, 2011
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Эдвард Хаджинс
4 мин
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 июня 2011 г.
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Эдвард Хаджинс
5 минут
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 июня 2011 г.
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Эдвард Хаджинс
5 минут
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 мая 2011 года
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Рассел Ла Валле
6 мин
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 мая 2011 года
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6 мин
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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Фрэнк Брайан
8 минут
Обзор: "Логический скачок: индукция в физике"

Индукция - это формирование общего знания на основе конкретных фактов. Если вы один раз обожжете руку и после этого всегда...

19 апреля 2011 г.
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8 минут
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 марта 2011 г.
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7 минут
Вышел из-под контроля: Случай Перси Байше Шелли

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 марта 2011 г.
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7 минут
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 марта 2011 г.
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Эдвард Б. Дрисколл, мл.
7 минут
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 марта 2011 г.
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Edward W. Younkins
9 минут
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 февраля 2011 г.
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10 минут
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 января 2011 г.
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Taylor Dinerman
10 минут
Эгоизм и капитализм против альтруизма и коммунизма

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

25 января 2011 г.
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Brian Gordon
4 мин
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 минут
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 минут

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