Saturday, April 25, 2015

Cromwell: The movie that brings the English Civil War to life

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The English Civil War was a war over ideas, much like the American Revolution ... The British historian  Simon Schama  once said that th...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Difference between valid argument and sound argument

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One of the biggest eye-openers of my  education  was learning what  philosophers  mean by the phrase "valid argument." As used b...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Karl Marx and the “labor theory of value”

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One of the central tenets of Marxism is the "labor theory of value," which is the idea that the economic value of something is d...
Monday, April 13, 2015

A review of Ken Burns’ “Thomas Jefferson” (PBS)

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalie...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

A review of Ken Burns’ “The Civil War” (PBS series)

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"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continu...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Are monopolies really as dangerous as Marx said they were?

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"Competition engenders misery, it foments civil war, it 'changes natural zones,' mixes up nationalities, causes trouble in fa...
Friday, April 3, 2015

The Marshall Plan: Helping the poor, keeping the peace, and stopping the communists

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"If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp. Nothing can then delay for...