84K The French Revolution (1789-1799) was a turning point for the social class system in place at that time. Explore the events that led to the French Revolution, how things escalated, and major events of the revolution. Related to this QuestionWhat...
I won’t say who or what but the memorable individuals and things that I was surrounded with in my younger years set the bar pretty high and if you have had the same, you realize that having the right people around or experiences has been a benefit to who you are. I have also found...
DAVID NABARRO: I want to say it again: we in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as a primary means of control of this virus. [. . .] We may well have a doubling of world poverty by early next year. We may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition ...
One of the most difficult things to accept as a CEO is that you are not perfect and that a “perfect CEO” is a myth. Treat yourself as you treat others and forgive yourself and your mistakes. The other option is that you grind yourself into the dust attempting to reach an unobtainabl...
opinion on many things – he would have fit in most perfectly in this third decade of the twenty-first century, making many of us modern folk appear old-fashioned and dull – as perhaps no other 18th-century man of letters of France, or of any European country for that matter, could. ...
CS:As a teenager, did you enjoy school? What was on your mind in general? What sort of things were you passionate about, if anything? What did you do to amuse yourself? DP: I went to the local school, from which I derived no benefit, just emotional damage: most young male humans ...
Things could not return to what they had been. Change was in the air. It would take another 100 years for the overall effects to become fully apparent, but the stirring of change was everywhere in the nascent West. This trickled down, or up, to the level of sovereign authority. Tax ...
did not enter into a contract with one another, based on self-interest, to form the state in order that they might protect what they judged desirable; rather, men discovered, by reason and Revelation, that some things good, they discovered a law of nature and morality, and went from ...
idea from. What a shame it was that she did not get acquainted with the great Liberal thinkers like Mises, Rothbard, etc., and that she never realized that they were both saying many of the same things, and that Libertarianism was not the “brutalist” philosophy that she thought it was...
Aaron, I’ve always been interested in the basics… basic data about the real ‘state’ of the world around us. I can’t say I know very much about the hydrocarbon group and suspect it would be of limited interest to me. And in the scheme of things I am not sure how much more im...