Sunday, February 28, 2016

The Imperfect Value of History. Reflections From Miller.

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There are no certain ways to predict outcomes of policies or trends in human society. No scientific tests. But one element we have to instr...
Monday, February 15, 2016

Secular vs Religious University Education in the Eighteenth Century German States. From Watson.

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In the German states, prior to 1734, university teaching was dominated by Catholic and Protestant proponents of Christian education. Since ...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Baader-Meinhof. The Inside Story of the RAF by Stefan Aust.

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During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the majority of college students in West Germany opposed their government’s complicity with the US w...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Great Maps by Jerry Brotton.

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In this modern era, we have learned to see maps as directional guides accurately depicting locations of, and distances between, point A and...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Biology and Genocide Prevention. From Wiesel to Burundi.

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“People wanted to understand…what had paved the way for Auschwitz. Explanations alternated with theories involving everything from politics...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

The Proud Tower. A Portrait of the World Before the War: 1890-1914 by Barbara Tuchman.

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The Proud Tower is Barbara Tuchman’s depiction of the western world between 1890 and World War I. In her introduction, the author claims t...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Shining and Other Paths, edited by Steve J Stern.

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The Shining Path, or Sendero Luminoso, was a Maoist revolutionary movement born of Peru’s university system. It was the creation of Profess...