Episodes

Saturday Jun 27, 2020
The Moral Basis of a Backward Society (Edward C. Banfield)
Saturday Jun 27, 2020
Saturday Jun 27, 2020
The grossly defective character of a 1950s Italian village is of more relevance to twenty-first-century America than we might like to believe. (The written version of this review, in web, PDF, and ebook formats, can be found here.)
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2 years ago
Historically, illiterate meant not fluent in Greek or Latin only. Which was the language of knowledge of the time. Most people were literate in their own local dialect.