“This is not who we are”? Seriously? Assassinations are as American as apple pie. The presidential assassinations alone are almost too numerous to remember. Include killings or attempted killings of other elected officials, add in […]
Jubilee was a radio program on the Armed Forces Radio Service intended for African-American soldiers during the Second World War and the Korean War; the program ran until 1953. The photos below are from a […]
Or, “The Mind-Body Problem? No Problem” The great French mathematician and philosopher, René Descartes (1596 – 1650), concluded that he could know for certain that he existed, because he was thinking: “I think, therefore I […]
When I was a boy, we had a good collection of books in the house, but just one encyclopedia: the Columbia Encyclopedia, a one-volume, large-format book at least six inches thick, with labeled cutouts for […]
The great event during the Descartes brothers’ years at La Flèche was the interment of Henri IV’s heart in the school chapel in 1610. Henri IV had been assassinated by a Catholic religious fanatic named […]
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