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born 1943 United States
Alan Charles Kors (born 18 July 1943) is Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught the intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries. He has received both the Lindback Foundation Award and the Ira Abrams Memorial Award for distinguished college teaching.
Also known as: AC Kors, Alan C Kors, Alan C. Kors, Alan Kors, A.C. Kors
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Red China will make Libya look like a picnic if that government feels threatened.
Socialism's Legacy (2011)
Ask college freshmen how many died under Stalin's regime, and they will answer even now, "Thousands? Tens of thousands?" What does that mean? It is the equivalent of believing that Hitler killed hundreds of Jews.
Socialism's Legacy (2011)
The bones of Cambodia, and the millions who risked death to flee communist Vietnam and Laos for an uncertain life anywhere else, tells us about the moral value, though not necessarily the military tactical wisdom, of the anti-communist cause.
Socialism's Legacy (2011)
[S]ocialism with authentic, political power must lead to tyranny and cruelty.
Socialism's Legacy (2011)
The chasm between what central planning and liberal society brought us, should be the most studied phenomenon of our times. One looks in vain for such study in our research, textbooks, schools, and universities.
Socialism's Legacy (2011)
[F]reedom depended ultimately on the outcome struggle between private property, voluntary production, and voluntary exchange on the one hand, and central planning on the other.
Socialism's Legacy (2011)
The collapse of European communist regimes will not entail disillusionment with the substance of socialism under other names until the latter is identified and linked to the catastrophic experience of the former. There is no reason to believe that this has occurred.
Socialism's Legacy (2011)
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