Sunday, August 28, 2022

A review of “St. Augustine” (audiobook)

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In the fourth century CE, the  Roman emperor Constantine  converted to  Christianity , causing many of his subjects to follow his lead in th...
Saturday, August 27, 2022

A review of “Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel” (audiobook)

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“What is rational is real; And what is real is rational.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s “Elements of the Philosophy of Right” (1821) In ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

A review of Michael Wood’s “In Search of the Dark Ages”

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During the  Dark Ages , there were a number of invasions of what is today  “England.”  Some of them were before the state of  England  was c...

A review of “The Germanic Tribes”

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Warning: This blog post contains a picture of an actual human skull from centuries ago. What is this film about, and why should I care about...
Monday, August 15, 2022

Why I am learning Biblical Hebrew

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“And he [Jonah] said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the L ORD , the God of heaven , which hath made the sea and the dry land.” - T...
Friday, July 29, 2022

A review of Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America” (book)

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“Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general...
Monday, July 18, 2022

A review of PBS’s “The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela”

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“No one in my family had ever attended school ... On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. Thi...