The ancient Roman Empire—though mainly just the era of the emperors—is an interesting phenomenon in that it offers a wide variety of allegorical material. Perhaps history is at its most interesting when it …
A while back, I stopped at a gas station in Luxembourg where owners of BMWs, Audis, and Mercedes go to fill up on slightly cheaper fuel. There was a street musician there with an accordion. He was playing …
History
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The idea of a "deep fear of death" is a typical exaggeration and a typical extreme view. Of course, there is no empirical research to support this claim, and it is a bad mistake to try to force one's own world view to fit such a claim. It ...
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Ancient Rome and liberalism. It is quite remarkable that, when it comes to Ancient Rome, for the past two millennia, historians of ideas, historians, economists, and theologians have been interested almost exclusively in the question of why Ancient Rome fell. …
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Groucho Marx's sleeve-shaking surpasses his namesake Karl Marx's sleeve-shaking both in fun and, above all, in usefulness. Sometimes they are even very stoic, for example the saying: "Before I speak, I have something important to...
