http://vision.org/rss/Vision Articles - HistoryCopyright 2008, VisionPRESSfeed Co. http://www.press-feed.comMon, 21 Jul 2008 05:39:56 GMTen-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/default.aspxhttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/images/lang/1033/pv_bg-b.jpgWorld War I has been described as the war to end all wars. The ensuing years-most notably, the Second World War-showed that this thought was ridiculously naive. In reality, the war was a colossal mistake, caused by a series of astonishing blunders.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=DFqkgJ"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=DFqkgJ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=ce1UHj"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=ce1UHj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=N1Adsj"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=N1Adsj" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~4/341738689" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~3/341738689/article.aspxMon, 21 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5958http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5958In 1896 Theodor Herzl published The Jewish State (Der Judenstaat), the basis for his reputation as the father of political Zionism.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=DkrjWJ"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=DkrjWJ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=uyRohj"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=uyRohj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=wBiR3j"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=wBiR3j" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~4/332191213" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~3/332191213/article.aspxThu, 10 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5834http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5834Broadly speaking, Israeli political philosophy follows two main schools of thought: a) the political Zionism of Theodor Herzl and its subsequent synthesis in the political and practical-socialist Zionism of Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion; and b) the revisionist Zionism of Vladimir Ze ev Jabotinsky.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=tS3G9J"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=tS3G9J" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=7R0Ouj"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=7R0Ouj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=ZsPlmj"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=ZsPlmj" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~4/332191214" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~3/332191214/article.aspxThu, 10 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5832http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5832Chinas First Emperor, the head of the short-lived Qin dynasty, was a man of great and extravagant ambitions-not only for his physical, earthly life but for the life he anticipated beyond the grave.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=9Seq6J"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=9Seq6J" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=RrNbtj"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=RrNbtj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=z4r1Zj"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=z4r1Zj" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~4/332191215" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~3/332191215/article.aspxThu, 10 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5818http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5818The key to Orville and Wilbur Wrights success a century ago was their discovery of some immutable laws of physics. In the meantime, other equally immutable laws have yet to be recognized.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=tUJ1JWF"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=tUJ1JWF" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=fFNcYHf"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=fFNcYHf" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=rrb6N4f"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=rrb6N4f" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~4/231208986" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~3/231208986/article.aspxTue, 18 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=624http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=624History abounds with would-be saviors who promised peace and prosperity. But without exception, they failed to deliver. Have we learned the lesson that no human being or form of government can deliver us or bring salvation in an ultimate sense?<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=ZXoXlVF"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=ZXoXlVF" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=qTXPgzf"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=qTXPgzf" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=3DUIazf"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=3DUIazf" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~4/231208987" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~3/231208987/article.aspxTue, 11 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=4162http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=4162If Pol Pot proved to be Cambodias ephemeral false messiah, there is nothing short term about the legacy of Kim Il sung of North Korea. He began his 46 year rule as a committed Marxist-Leninist but eventually created his own postcommunist Juche ideology of self reliance. In the process, he perpetuated a personality cult and a savior dynasty.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=5uiFgDF"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=5uiFgDF" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=TpAyF2f"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=TpAyF2f" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=KV8doqf"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=KV8doqf" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~4/231208988" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~3/231208988/article.aspxWed, 19 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=3696http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=3696When Mao received his protege, the Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, in Beijing in June 1975, it was to congratulate him on installing radical communism in one fell swoop.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=VWPvuTF"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=VWPvuTF" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=ReFCozf"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=ReFCozf" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=fzRlsqf"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=fzRlsqf" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~4/231208989" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~3/231208989/article.aspxWed, 19 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=3694http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=3694<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=D8o32BF"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=D8o32BF" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=00LS1zf"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=00LS1zf" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=OqcFAzf"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=OqcFAzf" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~4/231208990" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~3/231208990/article.aspxMon, 17 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=661http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=661<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=GMno2XF"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=GMno2XF" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=oLYndIf"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=oLYndIf" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?a=cb3RqNf"><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~f/VisionArticles-History?i=cb3RqNf" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~4/231208991" height="1" width="1"/>http://feeds.vision.org/~r/VisionArticles-History/~3/231208991/article.aspxMon, 17 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=663http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=663