Friday, May 29, 2020

A review of “Byzantium: The Lost Empire” (The Learning Channel)

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Also known as the “Eastern Roman Empire,” which lasted about a thousand years longer than the better-known “Western Roman Empire.” The R...
Friday, May 22, 2020

A review of “The Wars of the Roses: A Bloody Crown”

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“The great revolutions that had happened, in manners and in property, had paved the way, by imperceptible yet sure degrees, for as great a r...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

A review of “Jerusalem: Center of the World” (PBS)

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“Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Forgotten battlegrounds of the Cold War: South Asia and Indonesia

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“ We the people of Indonesia hereby declare the independence of Indonesia . Matters which concern the transfer of power and other things w...
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...