Look deeply into a funny movie for an important lesson in political philosophy and social ethics:
Author: Redactor
On June 3, 1959, Singapore adopted a constitution.
Categories
Jorge Luis Borges
Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself.
Jorge Luis Borges, “Autobiographical Notes,” The New Yorker (September 11, 1970)
Categories
G. K. Chesterton
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
G. K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News (23 October 1909)
Categories
Citizenship
On June 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
Categories
Jorge Luis Borges
I found America the friendliest, most forgiving, and most generous nation I had ever visited. We South Americans tend to think of things in terms of convenience, whereas people in the United States approach things ethically. This — amateur Protestant that I am — I admired above all. It even helped me overlook skyscrapers, paper bags, television, plastics, and the unholy jungle of gadgets.
Jorge Luis Borges, “Autobiographical Notes,” The New Yorker (September 11, 1970)
Categories
James Huneker
Socialism is but the further screwing up of the State machine to limit the individual.
James Huneker, in Egoists: A Book of Supermen (1913), p. 364.
Categories
Tennessee and Kentucky
On June 1, 1792, Kentucky was admitted as the 15th state of the United States. Four years later, Tennessee became the 16th state.
On May 31, 455 A.D., Emperor Petronius Maximus was stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome. On that date in 1578, King Henry III laid the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France. In other rock history, May 31, 2013, marked the closest approach to Earth that the asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon will get until two centuries hence.
In 1927 on the last day of May, the last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles. In 2005, Vanity Fair revealed that Mark Felt was Watergate informer “Deep Throat.”
Categories
G.K. Chesterton
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.