Sparks Commentary

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

Monday, August 16, 2021

A review of PBS’s “Lawrence of Arabia: The Battle for the Arab World”

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The Arab Revolt against the rule of the Ottoman Turks … When people hear the phrase  “World War One,”  they usually think of Europe . But it...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

A review of “Monetarism and Supply Side Economics” (audiobook)

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I recently finished listening to an audiobook called “Monetarism and Supply Side Economics.” In a way, it was almost like two audiobooks tha...
Friday, July 30, 2021

A review of “Thorstein Veblen and Institutionalism” (audiobook)

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So I recently finished listening to an audiobook about the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen , who lived from 1857 to 1929. It w...
Monday, July 26, 2021

A review of “Alfred Marshall and Neoclassicism” (audiobook)

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So I recently finished an audiobook about  Alfred Marshall , a British economist who lived from 1842 to 1924. This audiobook was called “Al...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

A review of “The American Revolution” (audiobook)

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“What do we mean by the American Revolution ? Do we mean the American war? The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolut...

A review of “The Declaration of Independence” (audiobook)

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“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establi...
Monday, June 28, 2021

A review of Rousseau’s “The Social Contract” (audiobook)

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I’ve read  Rousseau’s “The Social Contract” itself  in the original French . Thus, you might expect me to be something of a “fan” of this wo...
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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 … )
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