devon thomas new novel god of the barbarians explores a chapter in history unknown to many the author has lived in the taiwanese capital taipei for thirteen years. he came across a book about the rebellion by chance and instantly decided to write about it. my list goes on for it's of let's move when you read it you're immediately reminded of the cultural revolution in china as well according to the red guards the revolutionaries who willfully destroyed any cultural property they came across of ancient temples and so on one from that there was work that it also reminds you of islamic state murders plundering religious fanatics you know what. it's in. the protagonist and god of the barbarians is a young missionary from germany he was fascinated by the far eastern empire readers might be tempted to see something of stefan torment in his main character. he went to china in one thousand nine hundred sixty study philosophy later moving to taiwan . i lived in a student residence in china because when fellow students came to visit me there they had to hand in their id cards at the entrance it

of the barbarians as both a historical novel and an adventure story.it reads like an allegory of present day religious fanaticism. the cantona general by georgian born nino how to really tells the story of a russian oligarch and the rubble left by the crumbling of the soviet union. nino how to teach billy peers into the very depths of her character's selves. in the cat and in general she uses different perspectives to tell the tale of a monstrous crime. and of the first chechen war. the book is inspired by real life events. the house. was all pervasive people were fleeing their nerves frayed by curfews and cold war to much of the dead in the muddied snow were so disfigured they were unrecognizable as fallen as if the war was creating a new category a new kind of human. the central figure is alexander all of a sensitive russian turned perpetrator by the war together with other soldiers he raped and murdered a young woman in a mountain town in chechnya the spawns and again where i once crazy about this real life case is that the unit was on a kind of hol

the protagonist and god of the barbarians is a young missionary from germany he was fascinated by the far east and empire readers might be tempted to see something of stefan torment in his main character. he went to china in one thousand nine hundred six to study philosophy later moving to taiwan. but lived in a student residence in china when fellow students came to visit me there they had to hand in their id cards at the entrance it wasn't all that long after tiananmen and it had left its mark it was all still very tense taiwan felt very free and exciting but still chinese still exotic for me so i decided to spend a year studying in taiwan which would create. a new area was dawning in taiwan in the one nine hundred ninety s. as it successfully transition to democracy. but it's politically isolated china sees taiwan as part of its territory a stance that has considerable international support. definite only came to the university of taipei as a research and two thousand and five a dream job but he had a secondary. to write a novel. his two thousand and nine novel boardwalk is certain

in cost of the barbarians on top.he writes about this tragedy the all who has lived in taiwan for many years he depicts a far away wound on the brink of a new era the rebellion is led by the charismatic mistake honk choo-choo one he and his growing numbers of followers see themselves as christians. the leader was in contact with christian protestant missionaries in hong kong and from his dreams and feverish fantasies he came to the conclusion that he was the son of god god second son the younger brother of jesus christ and that god is urging him to topple the emperor and make china a christian empire. it's a war on all fronts the british and the french muscle into as they want to force the free opium trade. it was a coalition of world views and political ideas a clash of historical systems of order and the question was what form should world order take who has the right and power to decide what kind of world we will live in . the novel central character is a young german missionary he experiences destruction and viole

the barbarian could take your property. the barbarian could kidnap or enslave you. the barbarian could even kill you. so what do people do, asks john locke? they form alliances with other individuals, so that they can mutually protect each other's rights. oft, he says, is the origin government. government to protect our rights. that is why we put up with them. that is their function. that is their purpose. locke has a that fairly specific definition of what these rights are. you have the right not to be killed. you have the right not to have your property taken against your will. you have the right not to have your liberty curtailed. none of these rights pose any burden upon anyone else. the only thing you ask of others is to leave you alone. so this is a very sort of limited conception of why we would have government, to protect our rights. and this works fine, maybe, for a few generations. you band together with individuals. you are there for one another, should some barbarian, and threaten your rights. but imagine that a couple generations past. imagine that one

there are greeks and barbarians. barbarians are the people who when you go talk to them they say, how are you, what's up. how are you doing. they just say barbarbarb arbarbar. they can't talk. germanvic word for translates as mute. they can't talk. and the greeks thought that was very important, this distinction between greeks and barbarians. hehe says fire doesn't burn one way in greece and another way in persia. there's fire. there's not greek fire and persian fire. with the suggestion perhaps that carries over to human nature as well. there's not greek nature and barbarian nature but human nature and we can understand it systematically. the second point is an appreciation that law can be discovered and not merely made. and that's really significant and important. those who believe that law is made typically believe that the sovereign is above the law. one important figure in this tradition is king james the who becomes the first king of the stewart line after the tutor line is extinguished in england. king james t

with god of the barbarians stuff until my ventures into new territory setting it in asia it's written in the elegant language which has become his trademark and he says he's planning to write more stories he has plenty of material. added we have lots more literature and art for you on facebook just click d.w. concha. and. his wives are made of space and light james terrelle now the largest european retrospective show of the star artist is on at the freighter border museum in baton barton. and god said let there be light and there was light. this ultimate expression of god's creative power as found in the book of genesis. without light we wouldn't see. without light there would be no life without light there would be no art. your wife or something it was important for the physical. removal a few of you. to take or for a life and produce for him and so what happens through food. we don't think of it that way. james charles body of work focuses on the perception of light both natural and artificial now seventy five the american as one of the most foremost artists of our time. has install

there are greeks and barbarians. barbarians are the people when you talk to them, you try to talk to them and they can't talk. it is very common in human language groups. there is us and the other ones who can't speak. the slavic word for german translates as mute. they can't talk. the greeks thought this was important, this distinction between greeks and barbarians. but he commented that fire does not burn one way in greece and another way in persia. there is fire. there is a suggestion that there is a human nature as well. we can understand it, systematically. the second point is an appreciation the law can be discovered and not really made. that is significant and important. those that believe law is made, typically believe that the sovereign is above the law. one important figure in this tradition is king james, who becomes the first king of the stewart line after the tutor line. he was king james vi of scotland and became can -- became king james i. he wrote a book in 1598 called the true law of monarchies and s

i think me for a barbarian for this interview i kept reading words like veterans germany's oldest hip hop band is that how you feel you really are. with the oldest german hip hop band in the world and i didn't we're old and wise and still kicking and won't stop me most. people call you fun rappers but your last album captain fantastic had a lot more social criticism than before why problem in the this is i think these days it's hard to be an artist and not be political but that's not the kind we have fun on stage with funny on camera so for years we've been called fun rappers but i thought we'd. to really see you know selves that way i mean he's a. head of the show is it more beers and joints or smoothies in yoga. i think the combination is just right. here joining smoothies yoga in that order joints before smoothies and yoga after you know one each smoothie yoga beer joint yeah three guesses who gets the smoothie and. when you do songs you were thirty years ago do you have to go through them again before the concert and take a song like m.f. game was a little song. and it gave out an

was always diluted with water before drinking anyone who drank it pure was considered a barbarian today as we know the exact opposite is true. greece has been producing wine since four thousand five hundred b.c. . normally people enjoyed table wines in traditional to furnace but now stylish new wine bottles are also appearing. in a fonda stop loss owns wine points one of the first of its kind located in the center of athens it serves only quality greek winds greece is home to some two hundred different varieties of grain. this wine simply belongs to greece and has since antiquity but it's a little silly with most greek people belong to the greek orthodox church and have a special relationship with wine yet due to the holy communion wine is the second liquid we drink after our mother's milk is. said to fund us is glad to see a young generation of been as willing to prove how good greek wine can be still my love for you if you plant dryness on two sides of a hill but are identical. the one on one side will still taste different from the other one we have been morpheus you know results in

a group of wild barbarians who'd never left that part of russia, they were so excited to have tolstoytheir midst they asked him to tell stories of the great men of history. sew said i told them about napoleon and alexander and julius caesar. want to hear about that man m who spoke with the voice of thunder, who laughed like the sunrise, who came from that place called america that is so far from here that if a young man should travel there he would be an old man when he arrived. tell us of that man. tell us of abraham lincoln. tolstoy was stunned that lincoln's name had reached this corner. s so he told them everything he could about lincoln. and then the reporter said, so what made lincoln so great after all? and tolstoy said, well, he wasn't as great a general as napoleon. not as great a statesman perhaps as frederick the great. but his greatness consisted in the moral integrity of his character. and in the end that's what we should judge all of our leaders by. he got more than he ever dreamed. >> it really is a fantastic story. doris kearns goodwin, thank you so much for joining us

potentially people are spreading out and a threat to you and presented himself as a hero stopping these barbarians. >> you know he talks all the time about how he did direct outreach and the fact that unemployment for african-americans is at a historic low since it's been recorded. do you think he's been a plus at all to the african-american community? no, in fact, i think he scared people. i think it was to draw a very desperate picture, one that would scare people, especially white people. when you ask about, for example, any time that race is brought up with president trump, he says, look at the unemployment rates. he doesn't mention that 90% of that reduction came under president obama. >> well, juan, he's been the president for two years. at one point does he get credit for what he's done? >> oh, he does. i don't think there's any question about that. but i don't think it's therefore legitimate to say, "hey, i did it all." i don't think that's the case. we're setting records in terms of the numbers of months in growth in our gdp. and obvious most of that took place in the previous administrat

the world map was redrawn to distinguish enlightened powers from half civilized countries barbarian kingdoms and savage lands. religions political regimes and degree of civilization make up a value system used to rank peoples around the world. with these standards slavery had become a backward practice unworthy of a civilized nation merely fighting the slave trade no longer was enough slavery had to be eradicated. with this global surge of abolition and slavery an institution as old as humanity began to shrink. the movement was launched by the former spanish colonies when came the british colonies. called by the french and finally the dutch. way with the victory of the abolitionists slavery became a thorny problem for the united states. how could they renounce slavery when the american economy was run by southern plantation owners. this wealthy elite often considered itself as heir to the greco roman civilization which legitimated slavery many claim the connection staging it in the architecture and interior decoration of their homes for them slavery was a mainstay of the social order. one of

the western part of ireland is still spoke only , and they were looked on by people here as total barbarians. they could not understand what they were saying, and they were catholic. people did not like catholics. they sort of kept to themselves. they formed communities in all the cities. rochester had a community called dublin. lockport was very heavily irish. >> [inaudible] mr. kelly: there was really not the access. we think of the chinese laborers on the railroads of little bit later, but the west coast or up --as so remote from you know, because the country had this blank spot in the middle of it, and to go out west or to come from the west was really impossible. yes? >> [inaudible] mr. kelly: i'm not that familiar with the actual mechanics of it. i know it took place out in far western new york. >> is a community where creatures had an audience, had , and inspirational religious talks were done there, and then it developed into a and syracusellect, university has a branch there, and it became a summer resort. they have hotels, and it is a fenced in community where you could arrived by

the world map was redrawn to distinguish enlightened powers from half civilized countries barbarian kingdoms and savage lands. religions political regimes and degree of civilization make up a value system used to rank peoples around the world. with these standards slavery had become a backward practice unworthy of a civilized nation merely fighting the slave trade no longer was enough slavery had to be eradicated. with this global surge of abolition and slavery and institution as old as humanity began to shrink. the movement was launched by the former spanish colonies when came the british colonies. called by the french and finally the dutch. war with the victory of the abolitionists slavery became a thorny problem for the united states. how could they renounce slavery when the american economy was run by southern plantation owners. this wealthy elite often considered itself as heir to the greco roman civilization which legitimated slavery many claim the connection staging it in the architecture and interior decoration of their homes for them slavery was a mainstay of the social order. one o

the world map was redrawn to distinguish enlightened powers from half civilized countries barbarian kingdoms and savage lands. religions political regimes and degree of civilization make up a value system used to rank peoples around the world. with these standards slavery had become a backward practice unworthy of a civilized nation merely fighting the slave trade no longer was enough slavery had to be eradicated. with this global surge of abolition and slavery and institution as old as humanity began to shrink. the movement was launched by the former spanish colonies when came the british colonies. called by the french and finally the dutch. way with the victory of the abolitionists slavery became a thorny problem for the united states. how could they renounce slavery when the american economy was run by southern plantation owners. this wealthy elite often considered itself as heir to the greco roman civilization which legitimated slavery many claim the connection staging it in the architecture and interior decoration of their homes for them slavery was a mainstay of the social order. one o

very reminiscent what happened in 1988, barbarians at the gate. rjr and nabisco.art: how much is that in dollars. susan: 35 billion in u.s. dollars. currently. stuart: it will be settled this weekend done and saturday it is gone? susan: 21 months. stuart: dallas mavericks, owner mark cuban have been sanctioned by the nba. is this something to do with harrassment? ashley: sexual harrassment of the front office of the dallas mavericks. mark cuban is the owner. he is not being accused of any wrongdoing. as overall supervisor. he let things go. i should have fired people on the spot. he is paying $10 million to women's leadership and domestic violence organizations. the mavericks have to file quarterly reports to show progress they're making and take work place training cuban himself will undergo. stuart: got it. thank you ash. kim jong-un wants another summit with president trump. this is to speed up denuclearization. james carafano with the heritage foundation is here. seems like the north and south are moving toward reunification, i'm not sure something america wan

the world map was redrawn to distinguish enlightened powers from half civilized countries barbarian kingdoms and savage lands. religions political regimes and degree of civilization make up a value system used to rank peoples around the world. with these standards slavery had become a backward practice unworthy of a civilised nation where lee fighting the slave trade no longer was enough slavery had to be eradicated. with this global surge of abolition and slavery an institution as old as humanity began to shrink. the movement was launched by the former spanish colonies when came the british colonies. called by the french and finally the dutch. way with the victory of the abolitionists slavery became a thorny problem for the united states. how could they renounce slavery when the american economy was run by southern plantation owners. this wealthy elite often considered itself as heir to the greco roman civilization which legitimated slavery many claim the connection staging it in the architecture and interior decoration of their homes for them slavery was a mainstay of the social order. one