I read a short passage from Joel Salatin’s “The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs” this morning. Just because we have been blessed with natural resources or other kinds of resources, does it mean we have to consume them utterly? Have we not heard of the hydrological cycle, the carbon cycle, etc? All solar-powered, of course! This […]
One or two short paragraphs today. When people say that Afghanistan is the “graveyard of empires”, what do they mean? If backward barbarians like the Mongols under Mongke Khan were able to effectively crush the Assassins in Afghanistan, how is it that more modern, presumably better-led and overall better armies could not? Know someone for […]
This portion is about how it is far easier to concentrate power rather than to concentrate knowledge, and it is knowledge, what lies between people’s ears, that will bring you economic prosperity. Contact me if you want more!
I came across this essay by CS Lewis while listening to something else online and determined immediately to get a copy in print. Well, electronic print, that is. I discovered that this essay, “Good work and good works” was available together with the ebook version of “Screwtape proposes a toast” and purchased a copy. I […]
A very short read today. I would like to buy the book on “Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan” which is edited by KAORU (KAY) UEDA, or should I say, by Dr Kay Ueda, which is the name by which I got to know about her and her work, but I hesitate because I […]
This morning we read a small portion of “The Empire Strikes Back” of Claire Berlinski’s “There is no alternative”, which is a book about Margaret Thatcher. I first encountered this book some years ago when I was watching a conversation between Peter Robinson and Claire Berlinski on his show “Uncommon Knowledge” on YouTube. I have […]
I read today George Friedman’s article “The New Reality in the Ukraine War.” This is free on the Geopolitical Futures website and can be accessed here: https://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-new-reality-in-the-ukraine-war/ If you need Read Aloud practice, and you do, try to read more than mere basic stuff. Read something that will challenge the way you think, or maybe […]
Today I read a small portion of Thomas Sowell’s “Wealth, poverty and politics.” I highly recommend that you get the book and read it for yourself. I have no financial arrangements with any publisher for helping to publicize books that I happen to like. Contact me if you could do with Read Aloud practice, or […]
I read this morning a short passage from Jack Weatherford’s “Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world”. It was taken from Chapter 3 and was about some aspects of Mongol Law, especially about how the rulers themselves were subject to it. Did you think the Mongols under Genghis Khan were savage, bloodthirsty brutes […]
This is today’s reading of a short passage taken from Thomas Sowell’s “Wealth, Poverty and Politics” which I have enjoyed immensely. It is from Chapter 8 of the same, and I trust you will enjoy it enough to get your own copy of the book for yourself. If you’d like help in reading it, or […]
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