Tag: Alexander the Great

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“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.”

—Henry Ford

Agency is the ability to take meaningful action. Essentially, is one more of a subject or an object. There are three types of people according to their level of agency: non-player characters (NPCs), player characters (PCs), and dungeon masters (DMs). Life and art imitate one another, and these terms are known to anyone familiar with old school tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons. DMs run the game, while PCs play the game and interact with NPCs. (more…)

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Victor Davis Hanson
The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
New York: Basic Books, 2024

Professor Victor Davis Hanson is a classics professor and an author of many books on ancient history and war. He is on the political right, leaning towards the civic nationalist and conservative side of things. (more…)

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The theory of an ancient Aryan invasion of the Indian subcontinent was first proposed by William Jones, a British philologist in the 18th Century. At the time a stunning and original theory, Jones proposed a common root language to European languages and Sanskrit, writing that: (more…)

Richard Kelly Hoskins

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It is ironic that Virginia’s expansive ethno-culture [1] benefits from complex commercial activity and global trade while being damaged by the same. Virginia’s main early money-making venture was the tobacco trade, which needed a large and complicated system of finance and commerce before a single penny could be made. (more…)

Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Socrates Tears Alcibiades from the Embrace of Sensual Pleasure, 1791.

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Author’s Note: I am typing up and editing my lecture notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I and Gorgias to incorporate them into a new book tentatively entitled Tyranny and Wisdom: An Introduction to Platonic Philosophy. The Phoenician neoplatonist philosopher Iamblichus (c. 245–c. 325) placed the Alcibiades I first and the Gorgias second in his curriculum of Plato’s dialogues, and with good reason, for together they constitute an excellent introduction to Socratic moral and political philosophy.

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The Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD changed the religious order of the Roman Empire.

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Theology matters. The ideas arising from how religious thinkers have connected things in scripture drive a great deal of social policy. The outcomes of these policies can be good or bad. Societies that follow a Calvinist interpretation of Christianity, for example, tend to be wealthy. (more…)

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In 1941, Jewish-American businessman Theodore Kaufman wrote Germany Must Perish! This 96-page booklet advocated for “the extinction of the German nation and the total eradication from the earth of all her people” via forced sterilization. Fun fact: Between the pages of Germany Must Perish! and Mein Kampf, one can find an open call to annihilate an entire race of people only in the former. (more…)

Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch, Faust and Mephisto Playing Chess, ca. 1825

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III. Eating His Words: Renaissance Tricksters

Renaissance dramas were also a rich fount for stories/speech gone awry and ironic. (more…)

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There has been much discussion about the New World Order and related topics lately. Some might dismiss the possibility entirely, considering it all to be idle talk. (more…)

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There is a wonderful Ridley Scott film from 1977 called The Duellists, based on a Joseph Conrad short story, “The Duel.” It follows the exploits of two hussars in Napoleon’s Grande Armée as they traveled from 1800 Strasbourg, to 1812 Russia, and back again to France after Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo. Were their enemies the Prussians, or the Russians, or the British? No, their true enemies were one another — (more…)

Detail, Paolo Veronese, The Family of Darius before Alexander, 1565-70.

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Part I here, Part II here, Part III here

Internationalism vs. Nationalism

The chief threat to the viability of European nations is the extreme concentration of private wealth, which the globalists have parlayed into political influence on a global level. (more…)

Jean Raspail as photographed by Pascal Parrot in 1981.

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On June 13, 2020, the French explorer and novelist Jean Raspail died in Paris at the age of 94. Many were the nationalists, identitarians, and traditional Catholics who paid tribute at his passing. Former European MP and co-founder of the European identity movement Iliade, Jean-Yves Gallou, stated that Raspail was “the man who foretold the destructive impact of blame culture and anti-racism on our civilization back in 1973.”  (more…)

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“There were many whose hearts told them that they should begin to tell the secret runes.” Thus begins an ancient manuscript written in Old Saxon. It may surprise the reader to learn that these are, in fact, the opening lines of the Christian Gospel in the version known as the Heliand, produced for the Saxons in the early ninth century, after their conquest by Charlemagne. (more…)