Sparks Commentary
Part history, part politics, and part random other stuff.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
A review of Martin Gilbert’s “Israel: Birth of a Nation” (History Channel)
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“The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people . Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they f...
Thursday, May 9, 2024
History of the European Union
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“By this Treaty, the HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES establish among themselves a EUROPEAN UNION , hereinafter called ‘the Union’, on which the Mem...
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Karl Marx contradicted himself about zero-sum games
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A “zero-sum game” is one where you can only gain to the extent that others lose Marx once argued that the economy was a “zero-sum game” – o...
Monday, April 29, 2024
A review of PBS’s “Citizen Hearst” (American Experience)
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An anecdote about the movie “Citizen Kane” (made by Orson Welles in 1941) In 1941, Orson Welles released a film called “Citizen Kane,” whi...
Friday, April 26, 2024
A review of Michael Wood’s “In Search of Shakespeare”
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He had more influence upon the English language than any other individual – perhaps even more than the Biblical translator William Tyndale...
Saturday, April 20, 2024
What fascism is (and why it stinks)
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Warning: This blog post contains a disturbing picture, related to the Holocaust. It seems that people in most political movements will event...
Thursday, April 18, 2024
A review of PBS’s “The Great San Francisco Earthquake”
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The worst natural disaster suffered by a North American city in the twentieth century … In 1906, San Francisco was hit by one of the worst n...
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