Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Daily Archives: December 18, 2024
Midday Music Fix
Heart – Magic Man (1976) • TopPop
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Five American Universities
to follow on YouTube
Campus Life at the
Barnard College
Quote, Unquote
Against foreign powers, a prince can defend himself with good weapons and good friends; if he has good weapons, he will never lack for good friends.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Quote, Unquote
As Hannah Arendt observed in The Origins of Totalitarianism, political purges often serve as jobs programs.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
via Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?
published by The Atlantic
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Quote, Unquote
The road to the free market was opened and kept open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organized and controlled interventionism. To make Adam Smith’s “simple and natural liberty” compatible with the needs of a human society was a most complicated affair.
― Karl Polanyi
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Learning Object
John Mearsheimer | The Risk of Great Power Wars
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University of South Florida was founded on this day in 1956
The University of South Florida was founded on this day – December 18 – in 1956.
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