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5:00 pm
Civilization: The West and the Rest with Niall Ferguson
After defeating the Ottoman Empire in 1683, Prussian King Frederick separates church and state, fostering education based on scientific inquiry. Meanwhile the Ottoman Sultan ushered in religious laws that forbade the study of science, hindering scientific progress. Ferguson suggests the practice of property-owning democracy, established in America, fundamentally altered the distribution of power, giving landowners a voice in the government. He also looks at the influences of modern medicine, consumerism and the Protestant work ethic. Part 2 of 2G
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7:00 pm
PBS NewsHour
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8:00 pm
Nightly Business Report
Gas prices are sitting near two year lows, so what happened to that forecast for five dollar gas this summer? Washington Correspondent Darren Gersh reports. How to Greek-proof your portfolio. New York Correspondent Suzanne Pratt explains what to do with your investments if Greece leaves the eurozone. D
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8:30 pm
Journal
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9:00 pm
Charlie Rose
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10:00 pm
Globe Trekker
"Globe Trekker Special: World War II in the Pacific"
Trekkers visit key locations in the Pacific, a region where great battles were fought and military history was made.G
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11:00 pm
Free Or Equal: A Personal View By Johan Norberg
Swedish writer and Cato Foundation Fellow Johan Norberg travels in Milton Friedman's footsteps to see what has actually happened in the places Friedman's ideas helped transform. Norberg examines the contemporary relevance or Friedman's ideas in our time of globalization and financial crisis. D
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