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Category Archives: History

  • Aristotle got this right, I think: “Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history [...]

    I agree with Aristotle

    April 25, 2012
  • This is a very interesting programme that was taped the day Medgar Evers (the NAACP leader in Jackson, Mississippi) was murdered. That same night [...]

    Race Relations in Crisis on PBS (June 12, 1963)

    April 5, 2012
  • James Lawson was (and remains) a leading voice for non-violent civil disobedience and social justice. Congressman and civil rights leader John [...]

    James Lawson

    April 2, 2012
  • I think what I love the most about this quote is that it expresses a mindset which runs completely counter to contemporary culture and [...]

    This is great. . . .

    March 30, 2012
  • My wife and I have been reviewing the products we use in our home. I used to buy Tom’s of Maine toothpaste, organic soaps and organic [...]

    Animal intelligence at the “End of History”

    March 2, 2012
  • If you are interested in watching this lecture I do recommend it. The issues discussed are at the heart of the dissertation research I am working [...]

    If you are interested . . . .

    December 14, 2011
  • Today I made I drive that I have not made in several years. My wife and I were at a luncheon in Port Dover, Ontario and came back home by way of [...]

    Highway 3

    December 4, 2011
  • Here is a snapshot of a group of men whom I have been spending a lot of time studying. Sometimes it is nice to see actual video footage of these [...]

    A snapshot

    November 28, 2011
  • I have never been able to accept the idea that human beings are superior to animals. I have read many writers who fall back on the familiar [...]

    A Moral Order

    November 24, 2011
  • For the past several years I have been trying to piece together an understanding of Canada’s historical development that moves beyond the [...]

    Our Relations

    November 20, 2011

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