The theme of next year’s Summer Seminar will be Augustan England, which we are defining as the period between The “Glorious” Revolution of 1688 and the death of King George I. These were the years of William III and Good Queen Anne, the Duke of Marlborough’s victories and also the age that saw the emergence of two distinct political parties and ideologies.
Christians have interpreted Christ’s injunction to turn the other cheek in different ways. Over the centuries Catholic authorities have generally and consistently upheld the righteousness of self-defense, just war, and capital punishment, while the Orthodox have been more prone to view all war, just and necessary as they may be, as nonetheless sinful and requiring absolution. When a Byzantine emperor asked his Patriarch to proclaim as martyrs all the soldiers who died fighting Islam, he was refused. Neither Church, it goes without saying, instructed its followers not to resist the aggression of evil men…. The injunction to turn the...
What kind of regime sends young women to die in its pointless and criminal wars?
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In this episode Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss: Why questions are a burden to others and a prison for oneself. Why it’s not I who am asking, but the committee. Why Bo Peep is a hireling in this story. Why Caesar, Napoleon, and Elizabeth I make for an excellent Kangaroo Court. To prepare for our next episode in the series, watch “Checkmate”
After taking the necessary step of holding journalists accountable for their lies and disinformation, the next step would be to join forces with other nations—the UK, the EU and Latin American countries, Canada, Russia, India—in holding China accountable for the results of what was either an error followed by a cover-up or a germ warfare attack on the rest of the world. (Th
From the Introduction: Russian-born Vitaly Borker is one of those immigrants who have enriched and diversified the culture of his adopted homeland. After failing to complete his studies in law and law enforcement, thought he had found a new way of making money on the internet. On his website DecorMyEyes.com, Borker marketed cheap knock-off sunglasses as the real thing and added insult to injury by providing the worst possible customer service. As he anticipated, the tidal wave of negative comments boosted his site to Google’s front page. When he thanked disgruntled users on Get Satisfaction for making him a success,...
While most historians and political ideologues have claimed, over and over, that the American rebels were devotees of John Locke’s theory of natural rights and the social contract, there is very little evidence of this in the historical record.
Hammered as he is by the new Stalinism of “critical race theory” upon the anvil of the old Stalinism of “political correctness,” a denizen of the West may be tempted to lament that his days as a free man and a free thinker are over. He may even compare his position as an individual in society to that of a dissident under an authoritarian regime, if not Stalin’s Russia then at least its modern reincarnation, and conclude that the fat lady has sung and the opera’s over.
