Time warp in transportation: new technology, same arguments. Hansom cabs battled the new taxis in the early 20th century. And now, in the early 21st century, taxis battle the new Uber/Lyft cars.
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Here’s a review of my Nietzsche i naziści. Moje spojrzenie, tłum. I. Kłodzińska, (Chojnice: Oficyna Wydawnicza Fundacji Fuhrmanna, 2014). Its author is Ks. Janusz Chyła, who is on the theology faculty at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. It’s published in the journal Teologia i Człowiek. To my knowledge, this is the fifth scholarly
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In the mid-1700s: “Smallpox was the scourge of these times, just as the plague had been in the seventeenth century, or leprosy toward the close of the Middle Ages. A medical treatise published in 1774 calls it ‘the most universal disease.’ In France, ninety-five out of every hundred persons contracted it; one out of seven
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Worth reading: David Ramsay Steele’s now-classic article on the intellectual origins and practical evolution of fascism — “The Mystery of Fascism.” “From 1912 to 1914, Mussolini was the Che Guevara of his day, a living saint of leftism. Handsome, courageous, charismatic, an erudite Marxist, a riveting speaker and writer, a dedicated class warrior to the
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Next year marks the 300-year anniversary of a landmark event in human achievement: “The last execution for witchcraft in England took place in 1716, when Mary Hicks and her daughter Elizabeth were hanged.” By the early Enlightenment, Europe had progressed to the point of shedding many superstitions and the often-bizarre cultural, political, and legal practices
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Há exatamente um século, Adolf Hitler estava lutando na I Guerra Mundial. Ele era um bom soldado — recebeu a promoção ao posto de cabo, foi ferido duas vezes, e ao final, condecorado com seis medalhas. E com ele durante a guerra estavam os escritos do filósofo Arthur Schopenhauer. A imagem de Hitler lendo Schopenhauer é
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A fascinating brief item from the Library of Social Science‘s site. All German soldiers swore an oath to Adolf Hitler, vowing, “I shall at all times be prepared to give my life.” Similarly, those in the Schutzstaffel, or SS, vowed “absolute allegiance unto death.” Hitler drew the following conclusion, as he and the National Socialist
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Professor Piotr Kostyło of Casimir the Great University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, published a review of Nietzsche and the Nazis. The text of the review follows: Do We Know What We Advocate? Stephen Hicks’s Defence of Individualism The forty-five years of communism in Poland (1944-1989) were marked by the government reminding society of the atrocities committed during
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