Egyptian and Mesopotamian Civilization
I just finished Henri Francfort’s quite interesting book The Birth of Civilization in the Near East, from which I picked up some very interesting information and ideas. The discusion of…
Books
The Morality of Capitalism
More information on the book and the associated project here.
Bloodlands: A Difficult, but Important, Book to Read
It’s taken a while to get through Timothy Snyder’s very important book, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, not because it was dense, but because it is relentless in its…
The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat…Worth Buying or Downloading (or Both)!
The Liberty Fund has done us all a great service. The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat. Vol. 1: The Man and the Statesman: The Correspondence and Articles on Politics is…
Hume and Rousseau, an Astonishing and Mesmerizing Tale
In the course of reading to understand better the differences and the dispute between Voltaire and Rousseau, I read a truly wonderful book, The Philosophers’ Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the…
THE LATEST HI-TECH WONDER!!
(In Spanish, with French subtitles, but the visuals are compelling and clear.)
Our modest peculiarities and our right to them….
“Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way. People join together…
A very good book on how to live well and justly
I took my time to read this book, but it was worth it. Gurcharan Das‘s The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma is a worthy companion…
Wow. Russia’s propaganda channel on….communism
From Russia Today It reminds me of other utterly crazy and despicable attempts to dust off communist tyranny and try it “one more time”: for example, G. A. Cohen on…
A Sad Return
It has been a long time since I could bear to look at my blog without being overcome by sadness and grief, as I miss my friend a great deal….