Sparks Commentary
Part history, part politics, and part random other stuff.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Personality
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I have long been interested in personality. I read an informal book called Please Understand Me when I was a young boy, which was a po...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014
A review of “Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided”
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" ' A house divided against itself cannot stand .' I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half ...
A review of Steven Spielberg's “Lincoln”
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" ... that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom ... " - Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863) ...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Some thoughts about history education
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My theory on learning history is that most people are interested in the subject - they just don't all realize it.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Why Adam Smith is still relevant today
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" ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neit...
Thursday, January 2, 2014
My experience with Spanish
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"♪ Mexicanos, al grito de guerra / el acero aprestad y el bridón. Y retiemble en sus centros la Tierra, al sonoro rugir del cañón. ♪...
Friday, December 27, 2013
My search for the Greek New Testament
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"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receivet...
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