Wednesday, April 27, 2022

A review of Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (audiobook)

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Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the founding feminist philosophers. Her 1792 work “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” is one of the class...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

A review of Robert McCrum’s “The Story of English” (book)

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In 1986, there were two versions of “The Story of English” – a television series, and a book. I never got to see much of the television seri...
Monday, April 25, 2022

A review of “ANZAC: Australians at War in World War Two”

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“Fellow Australians, it is my melancholy duty to inform you officially, that in consequence of a persistence by Germany in her invasion of ...
Friday, April 22, 2022

A review of “Immanuel Kant” (audiobook)

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“I openly confess, the suggestion of David Hume was the very thing, which many years ago first awakened me from my dogmatic slumber , and ga...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

A review of “Descartes, Bacon, and Modern Philosophy” (audiobook)

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“ Cogito, ergo sum .” (“I think, therefore I am.”) – René Descartes, in his works “Discourse on the Method” (1637) and “Principles of Philo...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

A review of PBS’s “The Gilded Age” (American Experience)

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A portrait of capitalism (and some other things) in late nineteenth-century America This film is a portrait of capitalism (and some other th...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

A review of Frank Delaney’s “The Celts” (BBC)

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“And, first, with regard to the antient Britons [the Celts], the aborigines of our island, we have so little handed down to us concerning t...