Tuesday, May 5, 2020

A review of “The Communist Manifesto” (audiobook)

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I once read “The Communist Manifesto”  itself in English translation in 2012, because it is a shorter work that requires very little time...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Actually, Machiavelli WAS pro-dictatorship (and Rousseau was wrong about him)

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“I admit that, provided the subjects remained always in submission, the prince's interest would indeed be that it should be powerful, ...

Machiavelli argued that Cesare Borgia was a good ruler. (Was he?)

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“ I shall never hesitate to cite Cesare Borgia and his actions . This duke entered the Romagna with auxiliaries, taking there only French...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

A review of Ken Burns’ “The Vietnam War” (PBS)

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“ ♪ How many roads must a man walk down, Before they can call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the...
Friday, April 24, 2020

A review of “The Irish Rebellion 1916” (PBS)

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“In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past three hundr...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

A review of “Civilizations”

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A modern series inspired by Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” (which aired in 1969) … Before watching this program, I knew next to nothi...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

A review of “Athens: The Dawn of Democracy”

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“Sparta, Athens , Rome, and Carthage were all republics; two of them, Athens and Carthage, of the commercial kind. Yet were they as often...