History

Can Political Freedom Exist Without Virtue? America’s Founders Didn’t Think So.0
- History
- June 27, 2018
America’s Founding Fathers were a contentious lot, disagreeing about everything from the need for a Bill of Rights to the merits of skinny-dipping “near the Bridge … whilst …Ladies of the first fashion in the neighbourhood, are passing over it…” But they spoke unanimously on one topic: the requirement for a moral citizenry if the
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Trump Follows the Advice of John Quincy Adams. But Will Kim Jong-un Reform?0
- History
- June 13, 2018
Only the most unhinged Trump haters would not be overjoyed at the prospect of peace with North Korea. “The past doesn’t have to be the future” was the message conveyed in the video Trump shared with Kim Jong-un during their summit Only those ignorant of the suffering of the North Korean people would not
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How Hitler Could Regret He’d ‘Been So Kind’ in a Letter Days Before His Death 1
- History
- June 12, 2018
In a bunker in Berlin on April 27, 1945, just three days before he’d take his own life—either by cyanide or the pistol (historians still debate which killed him)—Adolf Hitler reflected on his shattered dream of creating a thousand-year Third Reich. As the Red Army encircled the German capital, the 56-year-old Hitler, weary and defeated,
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Ronald Reagan Challenged Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘Tear Down’ the Berlin Wall 31 Years Ago 0
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- June 12, 2018
On this day (June 12) President Ronald Reagan gave what is probably his most famous and influential speech — the “Berlin Wall speech” — at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Germany on June 12, 1987. It was in this speech (at about 12:00 in the video below) that Reagan made his famous and history-changing
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How Cicero Created a Movement of Free Thinkers 0
- History
- May 31, 2018
Cicero was a renowned Roman orator, statesman and writer. He was an enemy of one man rule and a self-described constitutionalist. During the turbulent twilight of the Republic he attempted tirelessly to establish a lasting peace in order to preserve his beloved republican government. Following the death of his daughter Tullia and his exile from
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Is Justice a Matter of Truth or Power?0
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- May 16, 2018
In the first book of the Republic, Plato shares a conversation between Socrates and Thrasymachus, a Sophist orator, that touches on the nature of truth, justice, and law. “I proclaim that justice is nothing but the interest of the stronger,” Thrasymachus tells Socrates. He continues: “…the different forms of government make laws democratical, aristocratical, tyrannical,
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