Saturday, May 7, 2016

David Hume and “The Wealth of Nations”

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"Commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government, and with them the liberty and security of individuals, amo...
Monday, May 2, 2016

Latin America became independent because of Napoleonic Wars – (well, partially)

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" ... the American continents , by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be ...
Saturday, April 23, 2016

My search for the Hebrew Bible in the original

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"And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the L ORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and ma...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

History's horror stories: The “grand experiments” with communism

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Americans have rightly been interested in their own country's history for a long time - both for the moving stories it contains, and ...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

War of “every man against every man”: Thomas Hobbes and the state of nature

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The English   philosopher  Thomas Hobbes once said that the state of nature is a "war of every man against every man." Many have...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

A review of “Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson”

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"Boxing has fallen into disfavor ... The reason is clear: Jack Johnson ... has out-sparred an Irishman. He did it with little brutali...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

A review of Fergal Keane's “The Story of Ireland” (BBC Northern Ireland)

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" ... the said kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland shall, upon the first day of January, which shall be in the year of our lord on...