The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in AmericaDr. Peikoff identifies the cause of Nazism--and the ominous parallels between the intellectual history of Germany and of the United States. He demonstrates that there is a science which has been all but obliterated in the modern world. "Yet this science determines the destiny of nations and the course of history...," he writes. "It is a science which has to be destroyed, if the catastrophes of our time were to become possible. The science is philosophy." |
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The Cause of Nazism | 3 |
The Totalitarian Universe | 17 |
Hitlers War Against Reason | 39 |
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