Tag Archive for: Political

Last Word: Sarah Huckabee Sanders traded political spin for outright invention

Beating up on flacks, which is what the powerful people behind them want us to do, is usually misguided. It’s the rare mouthpiece who goes so far beyond the call of duty as to earn derision in his or …
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The convention’s invention: Freemasons and the mysterious dawn of a political instituion

The presidential nominating convention, that quadrennial blend of circus and speechfest, was originated not by the two major parties, but by a little-known and short-lived group who called themselves the Anti-Masons. How did this band of zealots come to …
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The rediscovery of this writer in the Renaissance opened the way to the modern world (and, more importantly, the invention of political science)

The work of the the Roman writer Lucretius was lost to the world for more than a thousand years. When his poem “De Rerum Natura” was rediscovered in the Renaissance, Lucretius’s ideas slowly started to percolate through Renaissance Europe, making it …
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