If you consider what most cryptocurrency proponents [2] are trying to do, you will see an attempt to exclude governments and rights and create a system that cannot be controlled outside the dictation of technocratic…
Book Review: Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law
In his unambiguously elucidated book, J. Budziszewski successfully presents and defends the tradition of natural law starting with Aristotle and…
Constitutional Design Proposal
I. Introduction For all the benefits, the Constitution of the United States was developed in haste and through various…
Carnivorous Sponges
A relatively recent paper from O’Hara et al. (2020), describing a scientific survey of the lower bathyal and abyssal seafloor…
Marx’s Stolen Theory
It was not Marx’s labor theory of value. As Lutz (2018) argues, it is the position of several French philosophers, aligned with…
Understanding Medieval Documents: Part II
A commentary on the following charter: Carta Lucie de Brintona de tota terra quam Godwinus filius Leurich Carta Hugonis de…
Understanding Medieval Documents
A translation of the following: Omnibus sancte matris ecclesie filiis Herebertus de Bolebek salutem. Sciatis quod Alexander de Kenebelle consilio…
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau captured the accurate naturalism developed in the time following scientific advances such as those made by Darwin. Geographic…
Rome and the Indian Ocean: The Classical World in a Global Context
Scholarly Review De Romanis, F. (2015). Comparative Perspectives on the Pepper Trade. F. De Romanis and M. Maiuro (eds.), Across the…
Merchants and the Tokugawa Political Order
The Tokugawa political order was maintained by a system that some researchers have referred to as centralized feudalism. The structure…