From Bondage to Freedom to the Industrial Revolution

by Erich Stauffer How stable is the state of information storage on the planet today? How much do you know about the life of your great grandfather? How much of your own past would you remember if you lost all Read More …

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks gives a most incisive psychological analysis of the mind of the Terrorist, in every generation.  Understanding a phenomenon is the first step to being able to  effectively deal with it. GP: This lecture is based on Rabbi Read More …

דברים פרק ד ה) רְאֵה לִמַּדְתִּי אֶתְכֶם חֻקִּים וּמִשְׁפָּטִים כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוַּנִי יְקֹוָק אֱלֹהָי לַעֲשׂוֹת כֵּן בְּקֶרֶב הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אַתֶּם בָּאִים שָׁמָּה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ: ו) וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם וַעֲשִׂיתֶם כִּי הִוא חָכְמַתְכֶם וּבִינַתְכֶם לְעֵינֵי הָעַמִּים אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁמְעוּן אֵת כָּל הַחֻקִּים הָאֵלֶּה וְאָמְרוּ רַק עַם Read More …

Published on Dec 5, 2014 The pioneering astronomer and condemned heretic comes to life in this fascinating film version of Dava Sobel’s best-seller, Galileo’s Daughter. British actor Simon Callow portrays the seventeenth-century genius who defied tradition and years of imprisonment Read More …

Take the Two Eyes of Horus…to your forehead “Take the two Eyes of Horus, the black and the white. Take them to your forehead, (so) that they may illuminate your face.” gp: This inscription comes from the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Read More …

http://parkoffletter.com   An historical travel blog, where  you travel both in history and in place. It is not meant to be a Caribbean cruise but a true exploration of the past and the present. http://hardball.parkoffletter.org   Deals with American Constitutional Issues, the Read More …

By W.K. Jordan The Laymen and the Moderates: The revolutionary period witnessed the triumph of the lay spirit in England.  We have previously observed that an important body of lay thought had been developing in England which had embraced the Read More …

Property was the main object of Society. The savage state wars more favorable to liberty than the Civilized; and sufficiently so to life. It was preferred by all men who had not acquired a taste for property; it was only Read More …

Water and Civilization Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource. Societies’ own poor management of water, in other words, is a key component of their Read More …

It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good Read More …