Monday, February 16, 2026

A review of PBS’s “The White House: Inside Story”

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“Decision, activity, secrecy, and dispatch will generally characterize the proceedings of one man [such as a president] in a much more emine...
Monday, February 9, 2026

A review of Thomas Paine’s “Rights of Man” (audiobook)

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In the United States , Thomas Paine is primarily remembered for his work “Common Sense,” and for some other stirring words written in his ...
Friday, February 6, 2026

An overview of the New Zealand Wars

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“The chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes of New Zealand and the seperate and independent chiefs who have not become members of ...
Monday, January 26, 2026

The Great Turkish War: How Europe fought back against the Ottomans

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In the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire was making many enemies in Europe The seventeenth century was rocked by several wars in Euro...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: A metaphor for the ages

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Plato wrote many great works, such as his records of the  trial of Socrates . Specifically, his work “Apology” alone  alone could earn him a...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

What the War of 1812 did for the United States

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“His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,...
Saturday, January 3, 2026

My inner conflicts about learning Latin

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“In the last century [then the seventeenth century], Latin was the universal language of Europe . Correspondence among the learned, and inde...