George Washington, “father of his country,” led the Continental Army to victory in the American Revolutionary War, presided over the Constitutional Convention, and served honorably as the nation’s first president, setting the gold standard for leaders worldwide. 

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“Happy Birthday, George Washington!” by Jon Hersey: https://theobjectivestandard.com/2018/02/happy-birthday-george-washington/

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Victor Hugo helped to shatter classicist dogmas about form and propriety in literature, fueling the ascendance of romanticism. To this day, his The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables stand as unequaled feats of literary genius.

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“The Power of Observation: From Art to Literature to Life” by Lisa VanDamme: https://theobjectivestandard.com/2006/12/the-power-of-observation-from-art-to-literature-to-life/

Isaac Newton not only identified the fundamental principles of how the world works, he defined the scientific method as we know it today. Join us for a discussion of Newton’s tremendous achievements with Dr. Laurence Gould, professor of physics at the University of Hartford.

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“Enlightenment Science and Its Fall” by David Harriman: https://theobjectivestandard.com/2006/02/enlightenment-science/

Bradley Thompson, author of America’s Revolutionary Mind, discusses the nature of America’s revolution; it’s heroes, known and unknown; and the ways in which moral histories such as his can help us appreciate them.

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George Washington, “father of his country,” led the Continental Army to victory in the American Revolutionary War, presided over the Constitutional Convention, and served honorably as the nation’s first president, setting the gold standard for leaders worldwide. 

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Animated by the anti-reason ideas of Immanuel Kant and G.W.F Hegel, Karl Marx preached a philosophy of class warfare and violent revolution. He promised a socialist utopia that would end poverty, inequality, and exploitation. Yet, between 1917 and 1989, Marxist regimes killed roughly 100 million people—and tortured, starved, exiled, and enslaved millions more. After being exposed as a thoroughly anti-life ideology, Marxism changed its skin. Today, eerily, the ghost of Marx still lurks.

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Ayn Rand escaped the communism of Soviet Russia in her early twenties, came to the United States, and built a career for herself as the bestselling author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. She developed the philosophy of Objectivism, which she said, “in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” Objectivism answered longstanding philosophic questions, clarifying the connection between facts and values; demonstrating the objective nature of the senses, concepts, and knowledge; and offering a rational alternative to pervasive mysticism and skepticism. Her novels, which portrayed men overcoming great obstacles to achieve ambitious goals, have impacted the lives of millions and continue to sell hundreds of thousands of copies each year.

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In his short life, Alexander Hamilton had an outsized impact on every stage of America’s founding, from leading troops and aiding Washington in the Revolutionary War, to laying the foundation for America’s capitalist economy. Join us as we discuss America’s first great immigrant with Robert Begley, author of numerous articles on this multifaceted hero. 

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In 1942-43, as the National Socialists wreaked terror on the world, a group of university students and their professor collaborated in an attempt to awaken the German conscience to the magnitude of Hitler’s atrocities. In reference to the moral purity of their cause, they called themselves the White Rose.

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The black Boogie-woogie pianist Daryl Davis joins us for a discussion on how he got to know white supremacists and ultimately helped them to leave the Ku Klux Klan.

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