Thursday, September 22, 2022

A review of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”

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I am a big fan of the original  “Cosmos” TV series , made by  Carl Sagan  in 1980. Thus, when I heard that there was a 2014 reboot of the se...
Sunday, September 18, 2022

Alexis de Tocqueville often cited Judge Joseph Story

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Joseph Story was a U. S. Supreme Court justice, appointed by President James Madison In 1812, President James Madison appointed a new just...

Abraham Lincoln recommended Joseph Story, and Jefferson Davis criticized him

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Joseph Story was a U. S. Supreme Court justice, appointed by President James Madison In 1812, President James Madison appointed a new just...
Monday, September 5, 2022

A review of “Versailles” (French documentary)

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“ L’état, c’est moi. ” (“I am the State.”) – A line attributed to King Louis XIV of France – a line that he may or may not have actually sa...
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...