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Carroll Quigley on Western Ideology
The following is an abridged excerpt from Carroll Quigley’s The Evolution of Civilizations. The whole book is worth reading, and regular readers know…
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The Archaeologist And The Oil Drop
“Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops and got an answer which we now know not to be quite right.
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Preserving Text For The Year 5000
My work these days is preserving our civilization’s text on tempered glass tablets, to last for future historians thousands of years from now.
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Why the New Leisure Class Enjoys Activism and Philanthropy
Full article at Palladium.
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Military Revolts No Longer Work
Across the Western world, appointed administrators have gained power at the expense of elected legislators. More and more of the most consequential…
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No, The Black Death Was Not Good For The Economy
People love repeating counterintuitive factoids. People do not love conducting deep historical research to check whether clever-sounding factoids are…
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Why Do Victims of Massacres Go Quietly to Their Deaths?
I often hear that it’s a moral imperative to learn from the great 20th century atrocities, that these events are a window into what humans are capable…
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