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The Philosophers of the “Axial Age”: Socrates, Confucius, Buddha and Zarathustra From the nineteenth century through the 1960s and 70s, World History books did recognize… Read More »Karl Jaspers, the Axial Age, and a Common History for Humanity
The claim that the Roman empire was a legally sanctioned multiracial state is another common trope used by cultural Marxists to create an image of… Read More »Was Roman Citizenship Based on Laws for “all of Humanity”?
The invention of a civic identity was the first magisterial contribution of the Greeks to Western civilization without which their other accomplishments would have been… Read More »Acclaiming the Greek Invention of a Civic Identity
In its purest form liberal internationalism holds that a man may live anywhere he wishes and owe no particular allegiance to any people, place or… Read More »The Requirements of the Nation State