ideofactStriving for the better within the circle of the commonplace.Intellectual pursuits- May 22, 2008 I am reading Bertram Wolfe's Three Who Made a Revolution; I read a few pages in college for a report I had to do as a sophomore. My dad always insists that it's the single best book on the Russian...http://www.ideofact.com/archives/000835.html Our frail intelligence- May 22, 2008 In the Pursuit of the Millennium, Norman Cohn tells of the flagellants, a medieval movement that required of followers a grim torture which people inflicted upon themselves in the hope of inducing a punishing God to put away his rod,...http://www.ideofact.com/archives/000834.html But they can't use it in Maryland- May 8, 2008 ...which is good news for women everywhere, too: After his wife of more than two decades filed for divorce in Montgomery County Circuit Court, Irfan Aleem responded in writing in 2003, and not just in court. Aleem went to the...http://www.ideofact.com/archives/000833.html |