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Confessions of a Hungry Ape

The evolutionary advantages of eating meat

Apr 5, 2018

Confessions of a Hungry Ape

Apr 5, 2018

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How To Kill A Chicken: Thoughts on The Morality of Killing from the Barnyard.

Ever since reading Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, I have been thinking a lot about his defense of carnivores. Although his latest…

Feb 1, 2018

How To Kill A Chicken: Thoughts on The Morality of Killing from the Barnyard.

Feb 1, 2018

Putin: An Ever-Growing Threat to World Stability

Putin’s been around long enough by now for most people to understand the measure of the man. Many people have spoken out about and against…

Feb 11, 2022

Putin: An Ever-Growing Threat to World Stability

Feb 11, 2022

Why Amazon is not a river, and other capitalist oddities: On naming, language and reality.

Mention the word “Amazon” these days and chances are people will assume you are talking about online shopping. “My odyssey” likely brings…

Feb 1, 2022

Why Amazon is not a river, and other capitalist oddities: On naming, language and reality.

Feb 1, 2022

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The Shadow

Republicanism is dead: How today’s global challenges invalidate current Republican politics.

Many people on the Left have for decades considered Republican politics anathema. But as the twenty-first century advances into ever-more…

Aug 21, 2021

Republicanism is dead: How today’s global challenges invalidate current Republican politics.

Aug 21, 2021

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Raw History

Why Government Needs to be Better Than the People

The truth is, Democracy is not God-given. Neither is it inevitable, “normal” or required.

Jul 5, 2020

Why Government Needs to be Better Than the People

Jul 5, 2020

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Raw History

What The Plague Has to Teach Us About Social Distancing, Public Health and the Growth of Government

Throughout ancient history rapacious diseases have repeatedly devastated populations — in many cases proving that bacteria and viruses are…

Apr 1, 2020

What The Plague Has to Teach Us About Social Distancing, Public Health and the Growth of Government

Apr 1, 2020

How Learning Some Basic Math Will Help You Look Smarter: A true Story (sorta)

Excerpted from Look Smart: How To Appear Intelligent (When You’re Not).

Feb 13, 2020

How Learning Some Basic Math Will Help You Look Smarter: A true Story (sorta)

Feb 13, 2020

Bad Men, Great Artists: How to Reconcile one with the Other

Pablo Picasso was an awesome artist. No one really argues about that. He was the founder of Cubism, a movement which lay the foundation of…

Nov 1, 2019

Bad Men, Great Artists: How to Reconcile one with the Other

Nov 1, 2019

The Value of Corporate History

Everything has a history, simply because everything exists in time (except of course Monty Python which is timeless).

Mar 23, 2019

The Value of Corporate History

Mar 23, 2019

Middle East Primer 2: Early Islam

The place to begin this story is about 570 CE, with the birth of Muhammad, in Mecca.

Mar 22, 2019

Middle East Primer 2: Early Islam

Mar 22, 2019

Middle East Primer 3: Sunnis and Shiites

Islam, like other religions, has multiple schisms, factions and parties within it. Just like Christianity, there are divergent views. In…

Mar 22, 2019

Middle East Primer 3: Sunnis and Shiites

Mar 22, 2019

A Secret History of You.

I wrote elsewhere on Medium (What is History For?)that just as towns or countries have historians and histories, just so individuals have…

Mar 22, 2019

A Secret History of You.

Mar 22, 2019

Use the Tip-of-the-Iceberg Theory in Conversation to Look Smart

In social situations people generally don’t have enough time to draw well-informed conclusions about your intelligence. What they are left…

Mar 11, 2019

Use the Tip-of-the-Iceberg Theory in Conversation to Look Smart

Mar 11, 2019

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Raw History

What is History For?

Ibn Khaldoun, the Moroccan traveller and historian, tells a story about Alexander the Great. The story was related by his predecessor, Al…

Mar 10, 2019

What is History For?

Mar 10, 2019

Soros and the Rebirth of the Jewish Financier/Global Puppet Master Myth

It’s officially back: The figure of the morally-dubious Jewish financier who (along with a hidden cabal of Jews) seeks to control the…

Dec 5, 2018

Soros and the Rebirth of the Jewish Financier/Global Puppet Master Myth

Dec 5, 2018

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Ascent Publication

Shut Up! Why Practicing Silence Will Make You Look Smart.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. (Saadi)

Nov 25, 2018

Shut Up! Why Practicing Silence Will Make You Look Smart.

Nov 25, 2018

Whatever Happened to the America Us Foreigners Grew Up With?

After a decade of living in the United States I left Boston to move to France. First I had to attend a conference in England. It was late…

Nov 22, 2018

Whatever Happened to the America Us Foreigners Grew Up With?

Nov 22, 2018

Secession/Sechmession: Why Dylan Was Right

Distant Government, or Your Close Neighbor, You´re Gonna Have to Serve Somebody!

Nov 22, 2018

Secession/Sechmession: Why Dylan Was Right

Nov 22, 2018

History of the World in 10 Movements

A Ten-Point Big-Picture

Nov 19, 2018

History of the World in 10 Movements

Nov 19, 2018

Adrian V. Cole

Adrian V. Cole

Writer of fiction & non fiction. Author of “Thinking Past: Questions and Problems in World History to 1750.” Politics Reporter at the American Independent

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