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...

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...

Scientific theories must be testable. But if both results are believed to “prove” one right … Suppose I told you that something really crazy...

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

In 1969, the BBC released a classic television series called  “Civilisation”  (spelled in the British way). This prior series was presented...

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...

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

“It is indeed the opinion of Protagoras, who has another way of expressing it. Man, he says, is the measure of all things , of the existence...