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Author Fred Jerome details the activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in spying on Albert Einstein and his associates. He also details the pacifist and socialist politics of Albert Einstein and his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement which provoked J. Edgar Hoover into leading an F.B.I. campaign to link the Nobel Prize-winning physicist to Soviet espionage activities and discredit his reputation…More>>
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Two of the essential books on the shelves of literate, usually counter-cultural, young persons in the U.S. over the past four decades are Slaughterhouse Five and Cat’s Cradle, both written by Vonnegut… More>>
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These days , in the occasional university philosophy classroom, the differences between Robert Nozick‘s “Anarchy, State, and Utopia” (libertarianism) and John Rawls’ “A Theory of Justice” (social liberalism) are still discussed vigorously…More>>
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Thomas Hobbes was exposed up close to the terror of the bloody English Civil Wars (1642-1651). As a result fear and self-preservation are the primary “passions” in his political framework… More>>
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