Category Archives: History

Peace and War

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

A couple of years ago my wife traveled in Europe with People to People International and enjoyed herself immensely. Along the way, she had interesting conversations with people that she otherwise would never have met. But one of the things … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on October 8, 2011 by

Any strategy that involves crossing a valley—accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance—will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else … Continue reading →

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The Perseus Collection from Logos Bible Software

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

The wonderful folks at Logos, the Bible software people, have given me early access to their new Perseus Collection, over 3000 volumes of material. The Perseus Collection includes Greek and Latin classics such as Aristotle, Plato, and Cicero, in the … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on September 10, 2011 by

But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on August 31, 2011 by

The Solution by Bertolt Brecht After the uprising of the 17th June The Secretary of the Writer’s Union Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back … Continue reading →

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Bananas

Posted on August 22, 2011 by

Many years ago, between my Freshman and Sophomore years of college, I spent two summers working and living on a kibbutz in Israel near the Sea of Galilee—what the Israelis now call Lake Kinneret (meaning “harp”). A kibbutz is a … Continue reading →

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What Decline?

Posted on August 2, 2011 by

There is much hand-wringing and muttering about how bad things are now, compared to the good old days of the past. Clearly, say many experts, the glory days of America are over and we are faced with inevitable decline and … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

While Paine’s scientific skepticism ate away at the pomp and pretense of European nobility, the findings of eighteenth-century science afforded him an impression of the universe as based on harmounious laws, which in turn implied that human society too should … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

As the republic of letters brings forward the best literary productions, by giving to genius a fair and universal chance; so the representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom from where it can … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

In the history of human thought science has often come out of superstition. Astronomy came out of astrology. Chemistry came out of alchemy. What will come out of economics? –what Peter Berger tells us was the first paragraph of Bernard … Continue reading →

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