French Revolution
200Building a City State out of Plato
29 Jul 2024
39:32¶ 141
“To bring this back to the semi-real world, if one is able to find the proper historical writers and the proper original texts, it’s…”
40:09¶ 143
“The experts. The word technocrat hadn’t been invented yet, but that’s what it will become in the 20th century. Originally it was the philosophers…”
140All Things New
17 Oct 2022
12:10¶ 27
“Then came the French Revolution and 40,000 people went to the guillotine and the country was splintered, and along comes Napoleon and political tyranny,…”
10:58¶ 25
“No, it doesn’t. That’s an excellent analogy because in the late 17th and early 18th century that’s kind of the tact people were on,…”
48Social Vision and the Ten Commandments (Part 1)
29 Nov 2020
9:05¶ 31
“There are lots of good reasons for doing this, so we’re going to start here with Thomas Sowell’s idea of the unconstrained vision. This…”
11:16¶ 35
“Since the later 1700s, the days of the French Revolution, this has been an ongoing theme first in Western Europe, then in America, and…”
13:43¶ 41
“Again, to give the philosophes of the Revolution their due, they were fools enough to believe that they themselves were good and well-intentioned, that…”
29Prince of Egypt (part 3): Of Liberty and Liberation
19 Jul 2020
29:18¶ 80
“Or morte – death – was the other part that no one ever quotes in that little slogan. They were very serious. “You’re going…”
31:23¶ 85
“Let’s try the young alienated students who are afraid of fighting in a war. Let’s try blacks who already have a grievance. Let’s try…”