Saturday, August 29, 2015

In defense of John Locke: The need for private property

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"The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But mod...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

The difference between skepticism and close-mindedness

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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -  Aristotle Open-mindedness i...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

A review of PBS's “Bill Clinton” movie

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"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." - Bill Clinton, in a statement for the press  (26 January 1...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

A review of “The Panama Canal” (American Experience)

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"The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of a zone of land and land under w...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

A review of Michael Wood's “Conquistadors”

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A disturbing and intensely fascinating human drama ... It caused the fall of empires, and the rise of a new one in their place. It chang...
Saturday, August 1, 2015

Why I want to learn German

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"Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp. One is washed abo...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Falling in love with Classics: How I rediscovered Ancient Greece and Rome

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"Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans , and of the Stoicks , encountered him [Paul]. And some said, What will this babbler say...