Saturday, September 17, 2016

Religion, State and Paths to Power. The Confidence Game Persists.

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Four thousand years ago, the Babylonians believed that their kings were appointed by their gods to lead them. “Many of the texts composed f...
Monday, September 5, 2016

From Absolutism to Revolution: 1648 - 1848. By Herbert H. Rowen.

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In Europe, between 1648 and 1848, crucial progress was made via a difficult path of learning and action. From Absolutism to Revolution epo...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism. Eduard Bernstein and Social Democracy. By Manfred B. Steger

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Eduard Bernstein was a friend and protégé of both Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, who came to oppose orthodox communism. Bernstein saw that...
Friday, August 12, 2016

By The Books. A Bi-Partisan Chronology Rejecting Trump’s Claim That Obama Founded ISIS.

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In the media, Donald Trump has consistently referred to President Barack Obama as “the founder of ISIS.”** It is just another in a long lin...
Sunday, August 7, 2016

The Village. By John Strausbaugh.

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John Strausbaugh’s portrait of Greenwich Village is sometimes romantic, often squalid, and most frequently magnetic in its ability to susta...
Monday, August 1, 2016

The German Genius. By Peter Watson.

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Peter Watson’s The German Genius is a comprehensive study of German intellectual history. The author does a superb job of marshalling secon...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

Undaunted Courage. Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West. By Stephen E. Ambrose.

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There are many who are captivated by the adventure of Lewis and Clark. But what these two military men accomplished, both positive and nega...