Saturday, March 23, 2019

How to write a killer history paper

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You've probably heard of the six “journalist's questions”: who, what, when, where, how, and why. To a large degree, they are also ...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

What's the difference between the presidency and the prior British monarchy?

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“The supreme executive power of these kingdoms is vested by our laws in a single person, the king or queen : for it matters not to which...

How did the Founding Fathers use Blackstone's writings about the monarchy?

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“The office of president is treated with levity and intimated to be a machine calculated for state pageantry. Suffer me to view the comma...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

A review of the BBC's “The Story of Maths” (by Marcus du Sautoy)

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“Maths is the true language that the universe is written in  –  the key to understanding the world around us.” – Marcus du Sautoy, in th...

Some thoughts about math education

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“4 out of 3 people struggle with math.” – A joke of unknown origin As some of you know, I've been a professional math tutor since 20...
Friday, March 1, 2019

A review of Huw Edwards' “The Story of Wales”

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“ … That [the] said Country or Dominion of Wales shall be, stand and continue for ever from henceforth incorporated, united and annexed ...

How different was the Constitution from the “Articles of Confederation”?

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“The Stile of this Confederacy shall be ' The United States of America '.” – Article I of the “Articles of Confederation and per...