Michael Stein in Rambles through History and Philosophy

Murder: How 18th Century Russia Got Competent Rulers

Obnoxious, incompetent rulers were removed…

Michael Stein in Rambles through History and Philosophy

Feb 10, 2023

The Pope Who Predicted a Financial Crash

Market Economics, Ethics, and the 2008 Financial Crash

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Apr 22, 2023

The Greatest Poem of Them All

In Praise of Homer’s Iliad

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Mar 27, 2022

How the Nazis Financed an Economic Miracle and Prepared a War

Hitler’s Scam

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Jun 4

The Chameleon

From SS-Captain to University Chancellor — the Career of a Humanities Scholar

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Sep 26, 2023

Enthusiastic German Soldiers in August 1914

Solving Problems by Destroying the World

The Failure of Common Sense and the Outbreak of the First…

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Jul 25, 2023

A Beginning

The Rise of Civilization in Northern England

Michael Stein in Rambles through History and Philosophy

May 20, 2021

When New York Financed the USA

Federal Income and Spending in 1860

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Feb 2, 2022

A Stroll Through Ancient Athens

Another way of reading Plato’s Dialogues

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Michael Stein in Rambles through History and Philosophy

Jun 20, 2021

A Strange Case of Terrorism

Christian ‘Martyrs’ in medieval Cordoba

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Rambles through History and Philosophy

The articles collected here provide brief glimpses into the past. If you share my fascination with the thoughts, the lives, and the environment of the people that lived before us, take a look.

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