Sparks Commentary
Part history, part politics, and part random other stuff.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
A review of PBS’s “Asian Americans”
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“ … from and after the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and until the expiration of ten years next after the pa...
Monday, May 9, 2022
A review of “Fundamental Analysis, Value Investing, and Growth Investing” (audiobook)
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So I was recently listening to some additional presentations from an audio series about investment . This particular installment was called ...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
A review of “Islam” (audiobook)
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“ Allah—there is no god ˹worthy of worship˺ except Him . He has the Most Beautiful Names.” – English translation of The Quran, Surah 20:8 Is...
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...
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