Wednesday, May 30, 2012

David Liss, The Whiskey Rebels (2008)

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At the dawn of the American republic, the new nation was in a precarious financial condition.  The nation was indebted to France for financi...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

Arthur Herman, How The Scots Invented the Modern World (2001)

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Migration , when one first contemplates the subject, brings to mind human migration:  out-of-Africa, across the Arctic land bridge, the Silk...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem (2012)

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The Finkler Question explored the subject of cultural and individual identity, and in a previous post about that book I explored the histo...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Benjamin DeCasseres, Spinoza Liberator of God and Man (1932)

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There has been a flurry of biographies in recent years about Baruch Spinoza. Among them: Spinoza, A Life by Steven Nadler ; Spinoza's H...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln (2011)

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Was Abraham Lincoln the 19th century equivalent of Jesus Christ (nee Yeshua, English name Joshua)? Or was he the 19th century equivalent of ...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Baruch Spinoza, The Emendation of the Intellect (1660)

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The life and works Baruch Spinoza have fascinated me since I was a teenager. A teacher who took an interest in my intellectual development a...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Donella Meadows, Thinking In Systems (2008)

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Baruch Spinoza, the 17 th century Dutch Jew and author of Ethics , was a systems thinker. Perhaps one of the greatest systems thinkers. Eth...