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Tuesday, June 10, 2025
A review of “The Salem Witch Trials” (History Channel)
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“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” – The Hebrew Bible, “The Second Book of Moses Called Exodus,” Chapter 22, Verse 18 (as translated b...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
A review of PBS’s “The Perfect Crime” (American Experience)
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Leopold and Loeb had committed the “perfect crime” … or had they? In 1924, one of the most infamous murders in American history was committ...
Monday, January 15, 2024
Blackstone condemned the execution of Algernon Sidney for high treason
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“Treason, proditio , in its very name (which is borrowed from the French ) imports a betraying, treachery, or breach of faith. It therefore ...
Monday, January 28, 2019
Reading about the trial of Socrates in the original Greek
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates at his trial, as recorded by Plato's “Apology” Before beginning this project...
Friday, November 20, 2015
The Nuremberg trials: A comparison of two movies
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Warning: This post contains some disturbing pictures related to the Holocaust. One of these, in particular, is very graphic, and may merit...
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