Monday, August 29, 2016

Did John Locke really claim that societies exist to protect private property?

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The English   philosopher   John Locke was a vocal advocate of private property, and gave an eloquent defense of it in his "Second T...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

A review of PBS’s “Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony”

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"Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of pe...
Monday, August 15, 2016

A review of Michael Wood's “The Story of India”

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"As from the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, two independent Dominions shall be set up in India , to be kn...
Monday, August 8, 2016

United States Census can influence a state’s votes in Congress (and the presidential elections)

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"Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of pe...
Friday, July 8, 2016

A review of “The Men Who Built America” (History Channel)

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"The Men Who Built America" is something of a rarity in the world of documentaries , because it is one of the few history progra...
Monday, July 4, 2016

Actually, John Locke DID influence the U. S. Declaration of Independence

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"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them wi...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

A review of Ken Burns’ “The West”

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"Nevada Territory is fabulously rich in gold, silver, lead, coal, iron, quicksilver... thieves, murderers, desperadoes ... lawyers, ...
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