The Modern World is Universally Socialist to Some Degree.
The Relative Justice of Economic Redistribution Despite all the philosophical stone-throwing between nominally “right” thinking people and nominally “left” thinking people, socialism is an innate part of the modern civilized world. Like it or not, it IS the world we all live in. The truth is that Classical Liberalism with its love of limited government, … Read more
Book Reviews Page AI & The Prophetic Agony of Frankenstein’s Monster – An Apocalyptic Tale The Internal Journey of Frodo’s Fellowship Beowulf Between Two Worlds 01 – The Progressive Prussian/Hegelian Alternative Which Replaced American Democracy 02 – Woodrow Wilson’s Weirdly Elitist View of American Democracy 02 – Pragmatic Socialism – The Actual 21st Century World … Read more
The Strange Bedfellows of Geopolitics – Dictatorships Which Improve the Lives of the Common People 00 – Book Review: Woodrow Wilson’s Congressional Government 02 – Woodrow Wilson’s Weirdly Elitist View of American Democracy 02 – Pragmatic Socialism – The Actual 21st Century World We All Live In The modern American administrative state is not a … Read more
China’s now long-standing economic boom has significantly raised the living standards of nearly a quarter of the world’s population. It has brought hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty. It doesn’t matter whether you are a panda-hugging globalist, or a Sinophobic American nationalist, China must have the accolades it deserves for this remarkable … Read more
History of the Island of Taiwan Taiwan has a rich history that dates back tens of thousands of years. It was originally inhabited by Taiwanese indigenous peoples. Anthropological study of the human remains suggests the indigenous people of Taiwan were Australo-Papuan people similar to Negrito populations in the Philippines. The Dutch East India Company Colonized … Read more
Singapore, One of the Rare Jewels of the Civilized World Singapore is one of those few places that is both a city and a nation. The city-state stands as a testament against the primacy of philosophical or religious systems and it is ardently in favor of whatever actually works in human affairs. It has made … Read more
Korea’s Entire History Was One of Being a Vassal State in Asia Korea’s long history of subservience to its larger neighbor China started before the Mongolian rule of the Yuan Dynasty period (AD 1271 to 1368). In 1897, at the behest of Japan, Korea declared independence from their Chinese overlords. The Qing Dynasty was crumbling … Read more
After the Second World War the victorious Americans did something utterly unique in world history. They launched a massively generous global campaign to help the previously embattled and badly damaged nations of the world to rebuild themselves. In Europe the campaign was referred to as the Marshall Plan. All the war-torn nations of Europe gladly … Read more
Do the capitalist power elites always control their governments? Karl Marx and his fellow travelers strongly asserted they did? In the Dickensian England of Marx’s day, the productive factory owners clearly did have strong influences in the British Parliament. But that was a time when England was deeply enthralled with The First Industrial Revolution and … Read more
A Christian worldview is a “God’s eye” view of our world. Creation is both visible (the physical world) and invisible (the metaphysical, “spiritual” world). Ancient Christianity understands that the visible and invisible worlds are coexistent, transcendent and indistinguishable.
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