How will France awaken? To what extent have we been right in accepting this ready-made expression and speaking of a ‘French awakening’? It is certainly not a sleep that we are dealing with. Not even a chloroform sleep under the…
It is altogether characteristic that, contained within an entire group of extremely recent studies on prehistory, ancient ideas should make new appearance, despite the fact that up until yesterday these were considered to be pure myths. One of these ideas…
Andrew Jackson (1769–1845) could at one time claim his place among the United States’ pantheon of most distinguished heroes. He held the American presidency from 1829 to 1837, following George Washington’s precedent by declining to run for more than two…
It has been observed by many notable thinkers in decades past that we live in an age devoid of cultural mythos. While the ramifications of this have been described and relayed to wide audiences, there is a startling lack of…
Modern positivism draws its zeal from the conviction that there is, and can be, no order among humans that is not itself a product of the power of the human imagination – that is to say, the imagination of the…
In an era when the mainstream is disparaging ‘old white men’ at every turn with virulent hostility, I would urge society to remember our aged relatives not only with pride but with reverence. The older generations built our very nations,…