Tagged “history”
- The Bible Is Monolatrous, Not Monotheistic: Every Reason in One Place
- Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution: The Failure of Ambiguity
- Christianity and Human Rights: A Historical Reality Check
- The Argument from Embarrassment, Inverted
- The Anthropocentric Conceit and the Long Demotion
- The State Got Smaller Than the Things It Regulates, and Our Fear Did Not Move
- Capitalism, Human Rights and Representative Democracy Arrived Together, and That Is Not a Coincidence
- Graph How Often People Throw Out Their Governments, and Watch the Ideology Disappear
- Microsoft's Damage Was Never Mainly About the Desktop
- The Pagan Origins of Christmas and Easter
- The Archaeology of the Conquest: When the Walls Didn't Fall
- The Missing Gospel: Q and the Synoptic Problem
- The Construction of the Canon: How Humans Decided What God Said
- The Silence of Contemporaries on Jesus
- The Evolution of Yahweh: From Desert War God to Creator of the Universe
- The Invention of Satan
- The Evolution of the Immortal Soul
- The Mesopotamian Roots of the Flood Myth
- The Exodus: Foundation Myth or Historical Fact?
- From Many to One: The Polytheistic Roots of Ancient Israel
- Religion and Modernity Collide Harder Every Year, and Not Every Religion Braked in Time
- Representative Democracy Cannot Bind Its Future Self
- Christianity Is Not the Bedrock of Science, and the Argument for It Falls Apart on the Word Law
- Wars Have Several Causes, and the Betrayal of the People Is Only One
- Why There Are Different Societies, and Why Their Meetings Go Badly
- The Bible Was the Entertainment of Its Day, and Entertainment Is Not a Census
- The Authoritarian Wave Has Several Causes, and the Largest Is That Democracy Is Not Working
- When Historians Say "It Did Not Happen," the Encyclopedia Says "Tradition"
- Freedom May Have a Speed Limit, but No Country Is Anywhere Near It
- The Zeitgeist Has a Direction, and Communication Is What Drives It
- Austrians and Keynesians Agree on One Thing, and It Is the Important One
- World Politics Runs on Six Factors, Each Simple to Understand and Impossible to Predict
- The Enemy Within Is Not a Dictator's Belief, It Is His Equipment
- Representative Government Is Harder to Topple Than a King, and That Is Not Only Good News
- Realpolitik Is Usually a Cover Story, and We Have No Way to Check
- Political Change Is the Last Step, Not the First
- Orwell Was Right About the State, and That Is No Longer the Whole Problem
- Atatürk and the Uncomfortable Case for the Interim Autocrat
- Institutions Made Us Moral, Philosophers Just Wrote About It
- History Is the Discipline That Decides Which Explanation Mattered
- Every Ideology Explains Less Than the One Before It, and That Is the Point
- The Extremists Are Being Born Where Nobody Is Allowed to Argue With Them
- Every Catastrophe Is Paid For in Liberties, and the System Is Glad to Collect
- Universal, Ancient and Respected Are Not Evidence That a Thing Was Good
- Jefferson Wrote Down the Right to Replace a Government, and We Filed It Away
- Gouldner's New Class Finally Has a Room to Meet In
- Jared Diamond's Surviving Societies Had One Thing in Common, and Representative Government Does Not Have It
- A System of Government That Needs Mass Support to Exist Is More Likely to Last
- Direct Democracy Is Also a Weapon in the Struggle Between Regimes
- Institutions Almost Never Die, and That Fact Is Evidence
- A Book Idea: Are We Steering, or Drifting?
- Sowell's Constrained Vision Fails Exactly When It Matters Most
- Wikipedia Reports the Majority, Not the Truth
- History Books Should Carry a Warning About the Great-Man Bias
- Academia Is More Afraid of Blaming Religion Than of Blaming Anything Else
- Build a Myth Yourself — It Is the Only Way to Understand Myths
- Leaders Believe Their Own Ideology Less Than the Public Does
- Complaints About New Technology Are Always the Same Complaint
- Atheism May Be the World's Most Effective Force for Religious Peace
- Oracle Bought Sun and Showed What It Thinks Open Source Is For