The Public "I"
HISTORY IN CONTEXT Every Day
Saturday, October 18, 2008
AFTER THE CRASH
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I bring to your attention Mr. Andrew William Mellon, a scarecrow of a man whose life reads like a Balzac novel. He is virtually forgotten t...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
THERE'S A WAR ON!
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I find it instructive that the citizens of Halifax, Nova Scotia have never obsessed over how the disaster of December 6th, 1917 could have...
Monday, October 13, 2008
BLIND AMBITION
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I believe that ambitious people tend to be unhappy people. Take Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus as an example, (or Caesar Augustus,...
Friday, October 10, 2008
ABUIRARE!
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I make no claims to understand the Byzantine logic of Catholicism, but I do feel empathy for Cardinal Robert Bellarmine. History records th...
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