Sparks Commentary

“ Ipsa scientia potestas est. ” (“Knowledge itself is power.”) – Francis Bacon , in his “Meditationes Sacrae” (1597) , with the quotation of...

“What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any cul...

Disclaimer: I am writing here as a philosopher and as a historian , not as a  psychologist . That is, I freely admit that I am not an “expe...

I have long had a fair number of friends who identify as “Marxist” or “socialist.” But I freely admit that relatively few of my friends ha...

“Rather, they cling to the dogma imposed by the long post-Enlightenment hegemony over the Western intellectual outlook , which can be summar...

Karl Marx attacked other socialist and communist schools in “The Communist Manifesto” The debate over the Marxist heritage is at least as ol...

Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead once collaborated on a book. It was a three-volume work entitled “ Principia Mathematica ” – no...

I was expecting something very different from this audiobook. Specifically, I was expecting to get an overview of  agnostics ,  atheists , a...

In 1993, the original “Jurassic Park” film brought chaos theory to a wide audience. In that movie, the character of  Ian Malcolm  predicts...

When the  first atomic bombs went off in 1945 , people witnessed the awesome power of the atom . It was so small that even microscopes fail...

I already thought that twentieth-century Western philosophy was a vast wasteland, before I ever listened to this audiobook. But I listened t...

Warning: This blog post contains a disturbing picture, related to the Holocaust. It seems that people in most political movements will event...

The name of Albert Einstein has become synonymous with genius. More than any other person, he is seen as the quintessential smart guy, and n...

John Dewey was one of the most influential philosophers to come out of the then-rising United States . Specifically, he lived in the ninetee...

William James and Charles Sanders Peirce are two of the most influential philosophers to come out of the United States . They made contribut...

So I recently finished listening to an economics audiobook about Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek . It was called “The Austrian Cas...

“But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too usele...

"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible ove...