Thursday, August 15, 2024

The Napoleonic Wars: A series of several coalitions and conflicts

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The Napoleonic Wars lasted for twelve years, with a death toll in the millions … The Napoleonic Wars lasted for twelve years, with a death ...
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Herbert Hoover: More interventionist than he’s remembered

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How much of the blame for the Great Depression belongs to Herbert Hoover? Herbert Hoover had been president for only seven months, when the...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

A review of Michael Wood’s “In Search of the Trojan War”

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“The gods deliberate in council concerning the Trojan war : they agree upon the continuation of it, and Jupiter sends down Minerva to break ...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

A review of Ken Burns’ “Hemingway” (PBS)

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“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writ...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

A review of Michael Wood’s “In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great”

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“Whilst the Amphictyonic confederacy remained, that of the Achaeans, which comprehended the less important cities only, made little figure o...
Monday, July 15, 2024

A review of “20th Century European Philosophy” (audiobook)

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I already thought that twentieth-century Western philosophy was a vast wasteland, before I ever listened to this audiobook. But I listened t...
Friday, July 12, 2024

A review of Henry David Thoreau’s “On Civil Disobedience” (audiobook)

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“I heartily accept the motto,—‘That government is best which governs least;’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and system...