Word: philosophere
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He ought to know. Affleck, who recently won $356,000 at the California State Poker Championship, is something of a poker poster boy as well as an amateur poker philosopher. He credits the media for the game's revival and points to the Travel Channel's widely watched World Poker...
America's greatness lies in the fact that its founders were students of the Enlightenment philosophers Locke and Spinoza, whose political thinking formed the basis for the Declaration of Independence. I wonder if President George W. Bush or Senator John Kerry has ever read any of their works? Perhaps each...
It was seen as a gritty pastime for middle-aged men, played in smoky back rooms with battered cards and grimy stacks of chips. The game reeked of flop sweat, cheap whiskey and chewed cigar stubs. And not long ago, in Las Vegas casinos at least, it came close to...
To play the enlightening, fascinating and occasionally disquieting game of trying to picture Jefferson now and apply his ideas and policies to 21st century American issues, one first has to imagine a sort of figure who hasn't existed for a long, long time and seems unlikely to appear again...
Like the other revolutionaries, Jefferson was eager to prove himself by the latest, most enlightened values. His father Peter Jefferson was a wealthy Virginia planter and surveyor. But his father was not a refined and liberally educated gentleman. He did not read Latin, he did not know French, he did...