On October 24, 1648, the Peace of Westphalia was signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years’ War.
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Thirty Years’ War
Author: Redactor
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Je suis condamné à être libre..
I am condemned to be free
Jean-Paul Sartre, L’Être et le néant: Essai d’ontologie phénoménologique (Being and Nothingness, 1943), Part 4, chapter 1.
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Uprising(s)
On October 23, 1850, the first National Women’s Rights Convention began in Worcester, Massachusetts.
On the same October date 106 years later, thousands of Hungarians rose up against Soviet rule.
Expanding upon Friday‘s Common Sense, this weekend at Townhall we present the strange case of the Times calling conservative intellectual Ben Shapiro a coward.
- New York Times: The Hollow Bravery of Ben Shapiro (October 12, 2017).
- The Daily Wire
- MTV: On the Punching of Nazis. I Support It, by Jane Coaston
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Sartre Doesn’t Take the Prize
On October 22, 1964, philosopher and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 – 1980) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turned down the honor — establishing a precedent that should have been followed by numerous Peace Prize winners, including Barack Obama and the European Union.
Only one other recipient of the award has turned it down voluntarily, namely Henry Kissinger’s co-winner in 1973, Le Duc Tho, though four other recipients were coerced by their governments from accepting the prize’s monetary award: Richard Kuhn, Adolf Butenandt and Gerhard Domagk, by the Nazi government, and Boris Pasternak, by the Soviet Union.
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Vilfredo Pareto
“We can group socialists and protectionists under the name of restrictionists, whilst those who want to base the distribution of wealth solely on free competition can be called liberationists…
“Thus restrictionists are divided into two types: socialists, who through the intervention of the state, wish to change the distribution of wealth in favour of the less rich; and the others, who, even if they are sometimes not completely conscious of what they are doing, favour the rich — these are the supporters of commercial protectionism and social organisation of a military type.”
Vilfredo Pareto, “Socialism and Freedom,” 1891.
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It’s Scary
Really? It is almost diabolical, creeping political correctness — diabolical.
‘Tis the season.
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Harding Spoke Out
On October 21, 1921, President Warren G. Harding delivered the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
I am responsible for everything . . . except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world . . . in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
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American boundaries
On October 20, 1803, the United States Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
Exactly 15 years later, the Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the Canada-United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.