Ever since Descartes published his book Meditations he has been accused of committing a fallacy of circular reasoning with his argument that God is the guarantor of the truth of […]
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Tag: European
Boris And The Home Stretch of The True Brexit Plan
Update on a story originally published on 13 Feb. 2019. The No-Deal Brexit Conspiracy is alive and well. All continues to unfold as planned. First, the earlier article that predicated […]
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To Make Sense of the Brexit Mess, Think Deeper
One thing that most Leavers and Remainers can agree on is that the Brexit process has been a mess. Who is to blame for that mess is as contentious an […]
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Frantz Fanon on Being Black
Frantz Fanon on Being Black “I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the […]
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Understanding Hegel
Understanding Hegel. It is a bit of an exaggeration to say that in the last 100 or so years there has been a war in philosophy. But if we can […]
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On the Centenary of the Formal End of WWI, This Thought on Nationalism
Nationalism led to the Napoleonic Wars, killing over 4 million people. Nationalism led to World War I, killing over 10 million people. Nationalism led to World War II, killing over […]
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Travel is Barbaric
Many people over the many years have written many romantic sentiments about travel. I love travel. Travel can be romantic and wonderful. Travel can also be, and often is, nasty. […]
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Don’t Drink the Water in Zagreb
Zagreb is a perfectly reasonable city. Capital of Republika Hrvatska it has the amenities of a European capital city with a nice central square, a decent tram service, great outdoor […]
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Gypsy Music
A rather underappreciated genre of world music is variously known as gypsy or sometimes less accurately Balkan music. Gypsy, because much of it musical forms derive from Romani, more commonly […]
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Kepler Destroys the Universe
It is impossible for us today to appreciate the profound effect of Johannes Kepler’s theory of planetary motion. Before Kepler’s book Astronomia Nova (1609) the unquestioned assumption was that everything […]
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