Thursday, May 23, 2024

A review of PBS’s “Bonnie & Clyde” (American Experience)

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It’s strange that people romanticize Bonnie & Clyde, since they murdered 11 people (or more) … It’s strange that people romanticize Bonn...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

A review of the BBC’s “The Plantagenets”

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“No scutage nor aid [i.e. forms of medieval taxation] shall be imposed on our kingdom, unless by common counsel of our kingdom [which is the...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

A review of PBS’s “The Perfect Crime” (American Experience)

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Leopold and Loeb had committed the “perfect crime” … or had they? In 1924, one of the most infamous murders in American history was committ...
Monday, May 20, 2024

A review of John Stuart Mill’s “On Liberty” (audiobook)

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This audiobook changed my mind about utilitarianism . In my college years, I was a fan of utilitarianism. Now, I’m a little soured on it. I ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

A review of Martin Gilbert’s “Israel: Birth of a Nation” (History Channel)

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“The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people . Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they f...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

History of the European Union

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“By this Treaty, the HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES establish among themselves a EUROPEAN UNION , hereinafter called ‘the Union’, on which the Mem...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Karl Marx contradicted himself about zero-sum games

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A “zero-sum game” is one where you can only gain to the extent that others lose Marx once argued that the economy was a “zero-sum game” – o...