Friday, June 28, 2019

Rousseau's “Discourse on Inequality” is long on detail, but short on evidence …

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“The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, 'This is mine,' and found people simple eno...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

What are “auxiliary subordinate rights”? (Answer: Rights intended to protect other rights)

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“In the three preceding articles we have taken a short view of the principal absolute rights which appertain to every Englishman. But in v...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

The minimum wage doesn't really help the poor …

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One day, a man named Bob goes to the store to buy some milk for his family. Since the price is only $2.00 per gallon that day, he decides ...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

A review of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s “Africa's Great Civilizations” (PBS)

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“The High Contracting Parties do by the present Charter establish an Organization to be known as the ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY . The O...
Friday, May 24, 2019

A review of “Queen Victoria's Empire” (PBS Empires)

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“ ♪ Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves. And Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. ♪ ” – “Rule, Britannia!” (1740) , a B...
Thursday, May 2, 2019

A review of PBS's “Catherine the Great”

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Warning: This post contains some mature themes in it. Although I have tried to cover them tastefully, there's no way to take them out ...
Friday, April 26, 2019

A review of “Egypt's Golden Empire” (PBS Empires)

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The Egyptian language might have been the first language in human history to have been written down . (Although some scholars have argued...