Remarks
Openness goes both ways
No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught. How to Read a Book
Remarks
Remarks
From Erie to Ontario
Charles Mackay finds an analogy for the life of John Law during the Mississippi scheme: His fate was like that which may be supposed to have overtaken the first adventurous boatman who rowed from Erie to Ontario. Broad and smooth was the river on which he embarked; rapid and pleasant
Remarks
Words to remember
I'm sure I am wrong about many things, although I'm not sure exactly which things I'm wrong about. A Generous Orthodoxy
Politics
The first warblogger
Tertullian The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
History
Scapegoats
If the empire had been afflicted by any recent calamity, by a plague, a famine, or an unsuccessful war; if the Tiber had, or if the Nile had not, risen beyond its banks; if the earth had shaken, or if the temperate order of the seasons had been interrupted, the
History
Conscientious objectors
[Christians] refused to take any active part in the civil administration or the military defense of the empire. […] This indolent, or even criminal disregard to the public welfare, exposed them to the contempt and reproaches of the Pagans, who very frequently asked, what must be the fate of the empire,
History
The emperor is blind when his eyes are closed
How often is it the interest of four or five ministers to combine together to deceive their sovereign! Secluded from mankind by his exalted dignity, the truth is concealed from his knowledge; he can see only with their eyes, he hears nothing but their misrepresentations. He confers the most important
History
Closed minds, sealed fates
The distortion of Soviet intelligence analysis derived, at root, from the nature of the one-party state and its inherent distrust of all opposing views. The Soviet Union thus found it more difficult than its Western rivals to understand, and therefore to use, the political intelligence it collected. Though the
History
They would be greeted as liberators
The State and Revolution The Sword and the Shield
History
Why they called him "Tricky Dick"
The 1952 [presidential] campaign also saw what [Earl] Warren considered his "betrayal" by Richard M. Nixon. [Nixon] had, like all the California delegates, signed a pledge to support [Warren] at the [Republican National] Convention. Despite this, Nixon worked, both in and outside the delegation, to obtain support for
History
President's character questioned by mourning parent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (AP)--A father of two sons killed in Korea said today he refused to accept the Medal of Honor on the ground that President Truman is unworthy to bestow it "on my boys or anyone's boys." The 65-year-old father, Halsey McGovern,
History
Unpopular war blamed on President
Blame for the "wanton spilling of American blood in Korea" was placed upon the shoulders of the Truman Administration by the delegates to the State convention of the California Republican Assembly yesterday. In the concluding session of the convention at the Hotel St. Francis [in San Francisco], the