The word for today is… oligarchy (noun): 1 : government by the few 2 : a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes 3 : an organization under oligarchic control Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Oligarchy is one of numerous English words for a type of rule
Mathew Otieno mercatornet.com Mathew Otieno writes from Kisumu, Kenya. The Batwa are a group of pygmy people who have lived in central Africa for millennia. Their homeland spreads across what is now Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Shorter in stature than other Africans, they
Thornton Blackmore Just as Biblical lore speaks on the concept of the ‘end-times’, so too have other cultures and religions explored similar concepts. Interestingly, the Vedic culture of Classical India and the attending Sanskrit texts have spoken extensively of an age of darkness known as the Kali Yuga. This
Kerry McDonald fee.org Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and host of the weekly LiberatED podcast. She is also the author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019), an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a regular
The word for today is… parable (noun): : a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Parable comes from the Latin word parabola, from Greek parabole, meaning “comparison.” The word parabola may look familiar if you remember your geometry. The mathematical
Kevin Bird I know, I know, finance and policy matters are complicated. They give most of us a headache but if you want your money to remain yours, then it is time to pay attention. In recent times our government has rather sneakily made us a guinea pig pilot nation
JM White The language went first. We went from sensible, balanced reporting to explosive language which has no real meaning. Now we no longer get estimates, we get ‘computer modelling’ and ‘record numbers’. A virus doesn’t mutate, it ‘super’ mutates. Ballistic missiles are ‘unleashed’ like dogs – not fired. Fans
Information Opinion Some readers of The BFD may recall the Mr Berry Mr Berry Show, a Youtube show I hosted for eighteen months. In mid-February, I decided to finish the show in order to focus on my employment as a Retail Coordinator at Officeworks in Melbourne (henceforth to be
The word for today is… transpire (verb): 1 : to take place 2a : to become known or apparent b : to be revealed : come to light 3 : to give off vaporous material specifically : to give off or exude watery vapor especially from the surfaces of leaves 4 : to pass in the form
Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more
The word for today is… indomitable (adjective): : incapable of being subdued Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The prefix in- means “not” in numerous English words (think of indecent, indecisive, inconvenient, and infallible). When in- teamed up with the Latin domitare (“to tame”), the result was a word meaning “unable to be
Information Opinion In the late 1970s, a series of experiments were conducted by Canadian psychologist Bruck K Alexander that purported to show that drug addiction was caused by social isolation. The experiment involved putting rats in small cages with the choice of plain water or morphine. The rats in the
Maggie Cao University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Maggie Cao is a scholar of eighteenth and nineteenth-century American art in a global context. She studies the history of globalization, especially intersections of art with histories of technology, natural science, and economics. I doubt that even Netflix expected “Is
The word for today is… candor (noun): Source : Merriam -Webster 1 : unreserved, honest, or sincere expression : forthrightness 2 : freedom from prejudice or malice 3a literary : brightness, brilliance b obsolete : unstained purity Etymology : Candor comes from Latin candere, meaning “to shine or glow.” That origin is reflected in the word’s
I once saw a young man wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with Che Guevara’s iconic image. Which wouldn’t be at all memorable, were it not for what was written under the image: “Because my Hitler, Stalin and Mao t-shirts are in the wash”. Well played, young man:
