Events Tagged: "politics"

Plato writes Republic - ideal state ruled by philosopher-kings, allegory of the cave, theory of Forms

Death of Aristotle - flees Athens after Alexander dies, 'lest Athens sin twice against philosophy'

Annual assembly at Carnutes - druids gather at sacred center of Gaul to settle disputes, elect chief druid

Exilarch vs. Academies tension - Hereditary political leadership conflicts with rabbinic academic authority

Bertran de Born stirs rebellion - warrior-troubadour's songs encourage Young King Henry against father, master of sirventes (political songs)

Unam Sanctam - Boniface VIII declares papal supremacy over temporal rulers

New England Illuminati panic - Morse and Dwight use fears to attack Jefferson and justify Alien and Sedition Acts

Congressman Henry Hyde's prophetic floor speech: 'What kind of people have we become that this procedure is even a matter for debate? Can we not draw the line at torture, and baby torture at that?...Our moment in history is marked by a mortal conflict between a culture of death and a culture of life, and today, here and now, we must choose sides'

George W. Bush inauguration - son of German intelligence-connected father, surrounded by neoconservatives

Orange Revolution in Ukraine - German political foundations heavily involved

Viktor Yanukovych elected Ukrainian President

AfD enters German Parliament - controlled opposition maintains democratic legitimacy