Hitchens' Razor

Why should you be reading Wodehouse?

Well, well well. :)

His highness's arrival was announced by Dhol drums,
Boisterous, it lifted the city out of its doldrums.
Bewitched the wind into a wicked poltergeist,
Which possessed the poor trees at first sight.
Made them dance with no rhyme, nor reason,
The city was under its spell in a summer season.

Maybe you should look for the pot of gold at the end of it.

They argued the male was feminist, and female misogynist; said it was a marriage made in paradox not paradise.

First came the rain, making my feet wet,
Then came the sun, making my brow sweat.
Pain feasting on my body, but I couldn't care less,
There, I crossed a line, that made the trees jealous.

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The night, soothingly quiet, our poet awoke in her bed.
Eyes wide, a story unsaid, raging in her head.
She opened her book and started scribbling away,
Hoping that the memory of her dream would stay.

Father of modern conservatism, Edmund Burke was once friends with the Thomas Paine. But their intellectual rivalry is now legendary. What happened? French Revolution happened. Here you go!

Dancing our way through the Scientific Revolution and Age of Enlightenment, we managed a tryst with the scientists and philosophers who proposed a paradigm shift in the way of life. Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, they all have a few questions for you.

Welcome to the third episode of the series Political Ideologies. Here we try to answer the mammoth three letter question, WHY?

On to the second episode then. The French Revolution, where myriad of novel ideas were born. A capsuled version of the events of the revolution and the general state of affairs.

Join us as we dive into the fascinating world of political ideologies. In this podcast series, we'll take a closer look at the diverse spectrum of the science of ideas that has shaped societies and governments around the globe. We explore the key tenets, historical contexts, economics, and contemporary relevance of various political ideologies including Liberalism, Conservatism, Communism, Fascism etc.