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Reading the Pan-Africanists: Julius Nyerere (II) - Commonplaces

Continuing: The production of wealth, whether by primitive or modern methods, requires three things. First, land. God has given us the land, and it is from the land that we get the raw materials which we reshape to meet our […]

Jake MeadorEconomicsBook ReviewsJulius NyererePan-Africanism

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Julius Nyerere (II) - Commonplaces

Continuing: The production of wealth, whether by primitive or modern methods, requires three things. First, land. God has given us the land, and it is from the land that we get the raw materials which we reshape to meet our […]

Jake MeadorHistoryEconomicsBook Reviews

Positivism and Universal Free Markets - Commonplaces

Gray: The core of Logical Positivism was the development of a scientific worldview. Going further than Saint-Simon and Comte, the Logical Positivists declared that only the verifiable propositions of science have meaning: strictly speaking, religion, metaphysics and morality are nonsense. […]

Jake MeadorHistoryEconomicsBook Reviews

Positivism and Universal Free Markets - Commonplaces

Gray: The core of Logical Positivism was the development of a scientific worldview. Going further than Saint-Simon and Comte, the Logical Positivists declared that only the verifiable propositions of science have meaning: strictly speaking, religion, metaphysics and morality are nonsense. […]

Jake MeadorHistoryBook Reviews

Gray and the Deeply Modern Bolsheviks - Commonplaces

John Gray: The roots of the Soviet system were in the Enlightenment’s most utopian dreams. Lenin never gave up the belief that, after a period of revolutionary terror, the state would be abolished. Trotsky defended the taking and killing of […]

Jake MeadorHistoryBook Reviews

Gray and the Deeply Modern Bolsheviks - Commonplaces

John Gray: The roots of the Soviet system were in the Enlightenment’s most utopian dreams. Lenin never gave up the belief that, after a period of revolutionary terror, the state would be abolished. Trotsky defended the taking and killing of […]

Jake MeadorChurchBook Reviews

Reading "Non-Anxious Presence" (II) - Commonplaces

Before getting into more prescriptive analysis in his later chapters, Sayers spends the first chapter developing his concept of a “gray zone.” To begin, The pandemic, cultural change, political polarization, and technological disruption have rapidly altered the world we live […]

Jake MeadorChurchBook Reviews

Reading "Non-Anxious Presence" (II) - Commonplaces

Before getting into more prescriptive analysis in his later chapters, Sayers spends the first chapter developing his concept of a “gray zone.” To begin, The pandemic, cultural change, political polarization, and technological disruption have rapidly altered the world we live […]

Jake MeadorBook ReviewsJulius NyererePan-Africanism

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Julian Nyerere (I) - Commonplaces

I’ve finished Kaunda. Now on to Nyerere, a contemporary of Kaunda’s who was the first president of Tanzania, serving from 1964 to 1985. I’m reading his book Socialism, which is a collection of addresses and papers he wrote in the early […]

Jake MeadorBook ReviewsJulius NyererePan-Africanism

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Julian Nyerere (I) - Commonplaces

I’ve finished Kaunda. Now on to Nyerere, a contemporary of Kaunda’s who was the first president of Tanzania, serving from 1964 to 1985. I’m reading his book Socialism, which is a collection of addresses and papers he wrote in the early […]

Jake MeadorHistoryBook Reviews

On Mr. Berry and Professor Jennings - Commonplaces

In his critique of my discussion of “whiteness” in the book, my friend Scott Pryor observes that it seems as if I’m shifting away from Wendell Berry’s critique of modernity and toward Willie James Jennings’s. On one hand, in Chapter […]

Jake MeadorHistoryBook Reviews

On Mr. Berry and Professor Jennings - Commonplaces

In his critique of my discussion of “whiteness” in the book, my friend Scott Pryor observes that it seems as if I’m shifting away from Wendell Berry’s critique of modernity and toward Willie James Jennings’s. On one hand, in Chapter […]