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The Side of “Progress” Deutscher and Trotsky   Leon Trotsky Perhaps the most telling indication of someone’s ideological bent i...

E. H. Carr and Prophetic History Moral Cretinism Part XI E. H. Carr The late writer and Historian Irving Howe wrote concerning...

Lenin A Note on his Politics Young Lenin Probably the most influential politician of the 20th century both directly and indire...

The Philosopher as Tyrant Critias of Athens Critias One of the most common conceits among intellectuals is the fantasy / longi...

Fellow Travelers and Conducted Tours Moral Cretinism Part X I have in several previous postings mentioned the various examples of mo...

Coercion Works Book Cover One of the most telling of popular myths regarding history is that history shows that force, coercion...

Kant’s Cant Crossed Fingers A few Years ago I responded to individual in a forum who accepted a great deal of what Kant said ab...

Moral Cretinism Part IX The ban passages, Genocide and Himmler.  William Lane Craig  The following is, in full, a bl...

Plato’s “Empathy” Bust of Plato In Plato’s dialogues there is sometimes the fact that the context, or set up, to his dialogue’s is...

Pure Idiocy Moral Cretinism Part VIII Ethiopian Famine Victims 1985 In the 1980's there was published books in a series calle...

Annoying Carelessness Map of America On Eve of Civil War One of the most common yet annoying habits of far too many scholars when ...

Moral Cretinism Part VII The CPUSA, Stalin and Espionage A Book Review Book Cover Ideological struggles and Academic one upma...

"Tough Minded" Atomic blast at Hiroshima The dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945 will remain a bone of content...