Suppose you where on a high school soccer team. Every year you play your archrival twice, once at the beginning of the year and once at the very end. The first game is a very close, hard fought affair. Everyone plays hard and does their best, but your team loses 1-0. At the end of […]
From time to time as a member of the Church of Jesus Chris of Latter-day Saints certain aspects of the Gospel have held my interest more than others. For a time Family History held my interest, almost to the point of distraction. At other times my focus has narrowed even to a single line of […]
Chinese Law Professor, Xu Zhangrun, was reportedly recently released from detention by the Chinese government. Prior to his detainment about a week ago Xu was notable as one of the very few Chinese academics, or other Chinese nationals of note, who had been allowed to openly criticize the Chinese Communist Party in general, and level […]
Ahmed Evans was self-styled Black Nationalist that was involved in a shoot-out with officers of the Cleveland Police Department in 1968 in Cleveland’s predominantly African American Glenville neighborhood. His story is largely forgotten today but there are lessons to be learned from Evans’ life, the reaction to George Floyd’s death, and the re-emergence of Black […]
Corporate America made a deal with the devil, or dragon if you prefer, when Corporate America made a deal with the Chinese Communist Party. The deal’s basic outline is that the CCP would provide cheap labor inputs to manufacturers and/or access to Chinese consumers, and Corporate America would turn a blind eye and remain silent […]
Walter Rathenau was a successful German-Jewish industrialist who helped organize Imperial Germany’s industrial production during World War I. Rathenau was a German patriot and some would say his organizational skills were critical to Germany staying in the war for as long as they did. When the war started, he was reported to have said, “On […]
Like so many terms that are bandied about, the term “Western Civilization” is one that does not hold up very well under scrutiny. Western Civilization is said at times to be based on Christian traditions, or perhaps a little broader, Judeo-Christianity, or if pushed some will acknowledge the influence of the Greco-Roman world. The reality […]
I’ve read numerous times how the debate about the Covid-19 restrictions is a debate between “public health” and “the economy.” That narrative is really pretty superficial and misses the point that the restrictions really negatively effect, and has negatively effected, much more than just “the economy”. Here are just a few examples. I work as […]
One day, many years ago, I was reading a book of the prophesies of Nostradamus. Nostradamus wrote in the mid-1500’s in France. He was a Catholic whose family had converted from Judaism. He was noted for his prophesies that were written in the form of quatrains, short poems of four lines, although Nostradamus never claimed […]
During the Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire’s capital city of Cuzco, Conquistador Francisco Pizarro’s brother Pedro found outside the city what has been described as a fortress in an area known as Sacsayhuamán. Pedro described the stones which formed the lower part of the fortress walls as “so large and thick that it seemed […]