Friday, May 29, 2015

JFK and RFK: A few movies about their lives

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"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of ...
Monday, May 18, 2015

A review of “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression”

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We've all heard stories about how bad things were during the Great Depression , with extensive poverty and massive unemployment - perh...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Some thoughts about business education

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"In a free-enterprise, private-property system, a corporate executive is an employee of the owners of the business. He has a direct r...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

A review of PBS's “Transcontinental Railroad” movie

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"[The Congress shall have the power] To establish post-offices and post-roads ..." - The United States Constitution, Article 1, S...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Plato and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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Aristotle "Have you ever heard of Plato? Aristotle? Socrates?" "Yes." "Morons." (Or were they?) ...
Friday, May 1, 2015

A review of Simon Schama’s “A History of Britain”

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"That the two Kingdoms of  England and Scotland  shall upon the First day of May which shall be in the year One thousand seven hundre...
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...