Sparks Commentary
Part history, part politics, and part random other stuff.
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Postmodernists seem to misunderstand the natural sciences
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“Rather, they cling to the dogma imposed by the long post-Enlightenment hegemony over the Western intellectual outlook , which can be summar...
Saturday, May 17, 2025
The Seven Years’ War was a massive worldwide conflict
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“The free exercise of the roman religion [in Canada] is granted, likewise safe guards to all religious persons, as well as to the Bishop, w...
Sunday, May 11, 2025
A review of “Real Estate and Collectibles” (audiobook)
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So I was recently listening to some additional presentations from an audio series about investment . This particular installment was called ...
Friday, May 9, 2025
A review of Michael Wood’s “Art of the Western World”
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In 1969, the BBC released a classic television series called “Civilisation” (spelled in the British way). This prior series was presented...
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
U-boats in the Great War: The other “Battle of the Atlantic”
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German U-boats were once the terror of the high seas, and this was true during both world wars. In the First World War , this campaign had ...
Monday, May 5, 2025
A review of “Søren Kierkegaard” (audiobook)
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He was one of the greatest Christian philosophers of all time. But, in a particular way, he was one of the greatest philosophers of the ...
Struggle over the Marxist heritage: The battle for the ivory tower
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Karl Marx attacked other socialist and communist schools in “The Communist Manifesto” The debate over the Marxist heritage is at least as ol...
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