by jeff.sanders | Aug 20, 2020 | Blog
Many years ago when I was in China I observed an art class. In their paintings and sculpture they were imitating classic subjects from the ancient Greco-Roman world. They also had copies of paintings by Michelangelo, Leonardo DaVinci, and Rembrandt (among many...
by jeff.sanders | Aug 17, 2020 | Blog
The German poet Heinrich Heine wrote in the 19th century: “Where they burn books, they will too in the end burn people.” Less than 100 years after his death his countrymen led millions of innocent people to gas chambers and crematoria. The book burning in...
by jeff.sanders | Jul 27, 2020 | Blog
Air conditioning, central heat, flush toilets. Refrigeration, penicillin, aspirin, airplanes, x-rays, and ballpoint pens. The telephone, television, movies, paper clips, and Post-it notes. Heart surgery, radio, drive-thru windows at banks and restaurants, photography,...
by jeff.sanders | Jul 23, 2020 | Blog
Do you think voting is a good idea or a bad idea? Do you believe that government should be by the consent of the governed, or do you think the people in government should not be accountable to the governed? Do you like the idea of a central government defining reality...
by jeff.sanders | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog
As I read about Europe and Asia’s vast experiments with totalitarian socialism in the 20th century, I am struck by how the various governments of Germany, Italy, China, and the Soviet Union did NOT overtly use their militaries upon their populations. Instead,...
