Sparks Commentary

Part history, part politics, and part random other stuff.

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

A review of “The Nazis: A Warning from History” (BBC)

›
It seems incredible that the Nazis ever came to power. Today, they are among the most unpopular of all movements, portrayed as bad guys in m...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Some interesting Joe Biden quotes about race

›
These quotations show Joe Biden saying some very awkward things about race. You might respond that none of them are bad enough to convict Jo...
Thursday, March 4, 2021

The Continental Congresses: The backstory of the United States Congress

›
“An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America , towards furth...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

A review of “Early Austrian Economics” (audiobook)

›
So I recently finished an audiobook about “Early Austrian Economics,” about the famous Austrian School in the  late-nineteenth  and  early-...
Monday, February 8, 2021

Actually, the Confederacy had no intention of ever abolishing slavery

›
Warning: For obvious reasons, this post does not censor the offensive language out of the historical sources that it quotes from. To do so w...

A review of “Joseph Schumpeter and Dynamic Economic Change” (audiobook)

›
I recently finished listening to an audiobook about the Austrian economist  Joseph Schumpeter , who lived from 1883 to 1950. He eventually e...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Funny communism jokes

›
Note: Some photos in this particular blog post may be anachronistic. They are intended only to enhance the humor, and are not intended to re...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About me

My photo
Jeffrey Sparks
By training, I am a business major with a concentration in marketing, and a certificate in economics. I originally wanted to do market research for businesses because I enjoyed the social science aspects of marketing, and I have studied psychology a little on my own; but I now wonder if this will ever be my field. I have also taken a fair amount of communications classes, because I thought about grad school in advertising or public relations (or even business & economic journalism), but I'm not sure I will ever do these things. (I'm glad I studied them just the same, though.) By inclination, I learn about a lot of other things in my spare time. For example, I am a history buff, an aspiring polyglot, an amateur linguist, a political philosopher (after a fashion), and a student of the Bible. Most of the things I study on my own these days have something to do with one of these subjects (or sometimes even more than one), and I write about many of them on my blog. So my actual profession is … you guessed it … a math tutor! Not what you'd expect, right? (Not what I would have expected, either … )
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.