David Thoreau invents civil disobedience
TO LISTEN TO THIS WHOLE POST, CLICK HERE – On this day in 1846 Henry David Thoreau was jailed in Massachusetts for non-payment of... Read More
Ludwig Wittgenstein went to school with Hitler
On this day in 1889 Austrian and British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was born in Vienna. As a child he went for a time to the... Read More
Vladimir Nabokov chased butterflies, not nymphets
On this day in 1899 the novelist Vladimir Nabokov was born. After an idyllic childhood in a leading St Petersburg family, Nabokov’s world was upended... Read More