Sparks Commentary

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...

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

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

In 1517,  Martin Luther  wrote the “Ninety-Five Theses,” a written attack on the  Catholic Church . Luther may or may not have pinned this ...

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...

“What is rational is real; And what is real is rational.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s “Elements of the Philosophy of Right” (1821) In ...

“I openly confess, the suggestion of David Hume was the very thing, which many years ago first awakened me from my dogmatic slumber , and ga...

“To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake.” – Arthur Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer is known as a pe...

“I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurre...

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

So I recently finished an audiobook about “The German Historical School of Economics,” an important school for economic thought . They were ...

“A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer t...

So I recently finished an audiobook about “Early Austrian Economics,” about the famous Austrian School in the  late-nineteenth  and  early-...

I recently finished listening to an audiobook about the Austrian economist  Joseph Schumpeter , who lived from 1883 to 1950. He eventually e...

“There are no facts, only interpretations.” – Friedrich Nietzsche He was the most controversial thinker in the entire history of philo...

I once read “The Communist Manifesto”  itself in English translation in 2012, because it is a shorter work that requires very little time...

It is well-known among my friends that I am a foreign language buff. Some of my friends also know that I am a  philosophy  buff as well. ...

" A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of communism . All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcis...