by jeff.sanders | Sep 19, 2019 | Blog
Isn’t it fascinating how so many of the great socialist leaders of world history have never owned a business and made it prosper? They have great ideas on how to redistribute other people’s wealth, but have never actually produced any on their own. One...
by jeff.sanders | Aug 24, 2019 | Blog
Here are a few more under-reported quoted from the “Great Helmsman” of communist China: “[A good name after death] cannot bring me any joy, because it belongs to the future and not to my own reality.” “People like me are not building...
by jeff.sanders | Aug 21, 2019 | Blog
I am currently reading the most thorough biography of the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong (old spelling is Mao Tse-tung). The book is “Mao, The Unknown Story” by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. Chang actually lived through the Cultural Revolution...
by jeff.sanders | Aug 20, 2019 | Blog
You cannot tour Florence, Italy without hearing the names of the great celebrities of the past. In one church alone La Chiesa della Santa Croce (Holy Cross Church) three famous people are buried there: Michaelangelo, Galileo, and Niccolo’ Macchiavelli....
by jeff.sanders | Aug 13, 2019 | Blog
I stood at a certain spot in the Piazza Della Signoria in Florence. It is a large plaza in the heart of the old City, right in front of the Palazzo Vecchio (“Old Palace”). There at my feet was a marker written in Italian commemorating the death of Girolamo...
