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The Lucayans discover Columbus
And learn the value of gold and human life to the fair-skinned visitors in their immense canoes...
Nov 27
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Paul Ham
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I, Kant...
The philosopher sailed to the edge of reason to discover 'what can I know?' Let's join him.
Nov 20
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Locke versus Leibniz
Are our minds a blank slate at birth on which experience etches our characters? Or are we born with innate ideas about the world?
Nov 13
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Machiavelli: 'stop being good' but 'avoid being loathed'
The Florentine held an unsparing mirror to the minds of statesmen and created the political 'reality' of Hobbes, Kissinger and Mearsheimer (this is an…
Nov 6
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October 2025
A thinking thing orbiting a star
When did the timid little ‘I’ who lived mole-like in a medieval fantasy imposed by institutional religion yield to the personal ‘I’ with thoughts and…
Oct 30
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The 30-year blaze
A beautiful idea emerged from one of the worst wars in history: the possibility of peaceful co-existence
Oct 23
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The faggot and the Bible
Not all Spanish inquisitors were sadistic brutes posing as 'God's instruments' on earth. Some were raising revenue for the king.
Oct 16
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Loyola limbers up
The spear of the 'Counter-Reformation' founded the most revered and loathed religious order in the history of faith
Oct 9
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Paul Ham
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'Antichrist' versus 'Satan'
Christendom tore itself apart over whether a wafer was Christ's body or ... a wafer
Oct 2
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September 2025
Luther's wrath...
How the 'protests' of a German friar launched a new spiritual movement of 'Protestants' and split the Catholic Church
Sep 25
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The smoke of Purgatory
Pardoners were selling something more valuable than cures, tulips or bitcoin. They were selling eternal life...
Sep 18
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Kindling for the Reformation
When Gutenberg first printed the 'Word of God', Rome felt the fury of an oppressed people who knew they'd been deceived for centuries
Sep 11
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