Monday, October 30, 2023

A review of PBS’s “War of the Worlds” (American Experience)

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Note: This post contains some science-fiction images, which are used to dramatize the story. Thus, not all of the pictures in this particula...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

The Constitution of Massachusetts influenced the national Constitution

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“We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the universe, in a...

The Constitution of Massachusetts influenced the Bill of Rights

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“All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjo...
Friday, October 20, 2023

A review of “John Dewey” (audiobook)

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John Dewey was one of the most influential philosophers to come out of the then-rising United States . Specifically, he lived in the ninetee...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

A review of PBS’s “Eleanor Roosevelt” movie

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“A snub is the effort of a person who feels superior to make someone else feel inferior. To do so, he has to find someone who can be made to...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

A review of “Maimonides and Medieval Jewish Philosophy” (audiobook)

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Moses ben Maimon (better known as Maimonides ) was one of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages . He was a  Jewish   philosophe...
Thursday, September 7, 2023

A review of Boris Fausto’s “A Concise History of Brazil”

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Note: The edition that I’m reviewing here was expanded by Boris Fausto’s son Sergio Fausto, to bring it up to date. The most populous countr...