It was about this time of the year back in 2000 when I took my two oldest to Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History (the Field Museum today). What did we go to see? CHICAGO — For the first time in 50 years, the Dead Sea Scrolls will visit Chicago in a special exhibition…
“We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.” – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher and historian of ideas
Below is a video of David Mamet, a well-known contemporary playwright, discussing his conservatism. There is much more detail of how he came to be a conservative as well as essays of his well thought out viewpoints to be found in his book, The Secret Knowledge. The book is quoted in the video. I highly recommend it to you. (I post this interview not for the sake…