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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By training, I am a business major with a concentration in marketing, and a certificate in economics. I originally wanted to do market research for businesses because I enjoyed the social science aspects of marketing, and I have studied psychology a little on my own; but I now wonder if this will ever be my field. I have also taken a fair amount of communications classes, because I thought about grad school in advertising or public relations (or even business & economic journalism), but I'm not sure I will ever do these things. (I'm glad I studied them just the same, though.) By inclination, I learn about a lot of other things in my spare time. For example, I am a history buff, an aspiring polyglot, an amateur linguist, a political philosopher (after a fashion), and a student of the Bible. Most of the things I study on my own these days have something to do with one of these subjects (or sometimes even more than one), and I write about many of them on my blog. So my actual profession is … you guessed it … a math tutor! Not what you'd expect, right? (Not what I would have expected, either … )
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