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“It scatters and it gathers; it advances and retires.”
– Heraclitus
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Book Review: The Odyssey by Homer
“So it is that nothing is more sweet in the end than country and parents ever, even when one lives in a fertile place, when it is in alien country, far from his parents.”
Odyssey IX. 33-36
Book Review: The Ancient City by Numa Fustel de Coulanges (Part I)
“Fortunately, the past never completely dies for man. Man may forget it, but he always preserves it within him.”
– Fustel de Coulanges
The Slaughtering of Innocence: Why Age Verification Laws Fail to Protect the Youth
An unacceptable and impractical solution to one of the gravest evils of our time.
Book Review: Beowulf
“Choose, dear Beowulf, the better part,
eternal rewards. Do not give way to pride.”
– Beowulf. 1759-1760.
Book Review: Piers Plowman by William Langland
Why Langland’s allegorical poem about the spiritual life ought to inspire us today.
Beyond Caricature and Corruption: Hermann Göring, the Third Reich’s Mark Antony
A Book Review of Göring: A Biography by David Irving. How the struggle of Hitler’s Reichsmarschall between honor and vice contributed to the Third Reich’s fall.
Book Review: The Lusíads by Luís Vaz de Camões
“There will be no lack of Christian daring / In this little house of Portugal.”
– The Lusíads VII. 14.
Book Review: Inquisition by Edward Peters
“False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.”
– Joseph De Maistre