Why Voltaire mocked Canada as ‘a few acres of snow’?
He also called it the land of ‘barbarians, bears and beavers’
BOOK: CANDIDE
In Britain ‘it is good to kill an admiral from time to time’
The tragic story of Admiral John Byng (1704–1757)
BOOK: CANDIDE
Ironically Candide—a satire on optimism—should make you optimistic
Looking back at Candide’s misfortunes 270 years later
BOOK: CANDIDE
The Problem of Evil in one Infographic
Visual representation of solutions to the Problem of Evil and Theodicy
BOOK: CANDIDE
The Problem of Evil Simplified: Four approaches to explain human suffering
Locate Candide’s “best of all possible worlds” on the chart of solutions
BOOK: CANDIDE
Why Marx attacked rival socialists as ‘reactionary’ and ‘utopian’?
The Communist Manifesto criticism of other kinds of socialism
BOOK: THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
The most important pre-Marx socialists
Five great figures: a philosopher, an agitator and three utopians
BOOK: THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
The Communist Manifesto in 35 historical photos
The book which inspired revolutions around the world brought to life
BOOK: THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
Beware of books! Madame Bovary and the old anxieties about women who read
Flaubert’s novel, Madame Bovary, was a snapshot of society’s views about women who read
BOOK: MADAME BOVARY
Women in 19th-century novels: Rebellious wives had to die!
Why the heroines of Madame Bovary, The Awakening and Anna Karenina commit suicide?
BOOK: MADAME BOVARY
Through art: Sexist views of women who read from yesteryear
What art can tell us about the social anxiety towards women who read
BOOK: MADAME BOVARY
Read Ovid’s immoral dating guide for a balanced insight into the #MeToo movement
The Art of Love shows how the courtship game, once played by all, has changed
BOOK: THE ART OF LOVE
Why Ovid’s Ars Amatoria is a challenging book to read
The Roman “love guru” covered seduction, deception, jealousy, adultery, forceful sex and good sex
BOOK: THE ART OF LOVE
O for objectification: When a woman allows men to use her
Why Story of O is a morally repugnant book?
BOOK: STORY OF O
Loneliness is inevitable for everyone
The path to solitude starts with accepting loneliness
BOOK: OF MICE AND MEN
Some of your dreams won’t come true and that’s OK
The fine line between inspiring dreams and pointless fantasies
BOOK: OF MICE AND MEN
Timeline of Quebec separatist movement
A brief historical outline of Quebec’s attempts at independence
BOOK: WHITE NIGGERS OF AMERICA
How Karl Marx inspired a French-Canadian terrorist
Seven communist ideas in White Niggers of America (1968) could be traced to the writings of Karl Marx
BOOK: WHITE NIGGERS OF AMERICA
Voltaire wrote perhaps the best sarcastically sycophantic letter to a pope
How Voltaire got the Church to approve of his play, Mahomet the Prophet?
BOOK: MAHOMET
Is Peter Thiel correct that monopoly is good and competition is for losers?
Are monopolies good for business and society?
BOOK: ZERO TO ONE
When wealthy conservative men tell you higher education is worthless
What’s behind that alarming trend and ten reasons why they’re wrong
BOOK: ZERO TO ONE
When “flower children” spurred kids to abandon childhood
The Children’s Revolt: How the counterculture changed childhood
BOOK: THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLBOOK
Futurism: On turning speed into a new religious experience
‘Speed is Divine’: Why the Italian poet Marinetti spoke of speed in religious terms
BOOK: THE FUTURIST MANIFESTO
Futurists vs Romantics: Extreme views on technology and nature
Gazing at the stars, from Goethe, Marinetti to Google Sky
BOOK: THE FUTURIST MANIFESTO
Italian Futurists: The first to love and worship the machine
The machine demonized, deified, humanized and eventually merged with us
BOOK: THE FUTURIST MANIFESTO
The misogynist who supported feminist causes-mostly inadvertently
The Italian Futurist poet, F. T. Marinetti, was a misogynist and a proto-feminist all at once
BOOK: THE FUTURIST MANIFESTO
Six types of Muslims in one diagram: Mainstream, Islamists and Jihadists
What is the different between a Jihadi, a Wahabi and a Salafi Muslim?
BOOK: MILESTONES
Who is the Muslim Brotherhood that the founder of Jihadism belonged to?
Is the “peaceful” Brotherhood the first incubator of all Islamic terrorism?
BOOK: MILESTONES
The Jihadi manifesto in 10 photos
Photos show how a 1964 text laid the foundations for Islamic terrorism
BOOK: MILESTONES
