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R.I.P. Eric Hobsbawm: Child of The Lost Generation
I have written before about Dr. Hobsbawm. I will not elaborate nor defend what British institutions have borne, namely a brilliant yet terribly misplaced intellect primarily shaped in the cauldron that became the First World War and its aftermath, namely … Continue reading
Posted in Morality, Satan/Evil, solzhenitzen
Tagged Empire, Hobsbawm, Solzhenitsen, Wojtyla, WWI, WWII
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Osama bin Laden: The Nemesis Of History
The death of Osama bin Laden ushers in an period of relief fit for Sophocles! It should surprise no one that violent revolutionaries are unfit to govern the impact of the means by which they rule. This tale is well … Continue reading
Posted in Arnold Toynbee, International Relations, Islam, Near East, Pakistan, Raymond Aron, Satan/Evil, Sun Tzu, Terrorism
Tagged Ajami, Al Qaeda, Arab Spring, Bush, Cold War, Freedom Agenda, Holy Alliance, Ibn Khaldun, Iran, Iraq, Islamic Terrorism, Islamofascism, Kissenger, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Middle East, Mujahideen, Osama bin Laden, Proxies, Raymond Aaron, September 11, Terrorism, Zawahiri
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The True Spirit Of A Counterrevolutionary: Whittaker Chambers A Tormented Man
Most readers of this very blog are not old enough to remember the vapid ideological atmosphere that gripped the 1930’s as examined throughout the writings of Norman Podhoretz or Irving Kristol. Both men ruthlessly examined the shape and commitment of … Continue reading
Posted in Eric Voegelin, Ethics, Identity Development, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Morality, Philosophy, Politics, Raymond Aron, Satan/Evil, Terrorism, Theology
Tagged Atheist Humanism, Communism, Dostoevsky, Islam, Militant Islam, Screams, Trotsky, Whittaker Chambers, Witness
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Shariah: Threat To America
The C.I.A. has developed a competitive threat analysis team to examine policy analysis regarding Islamic terrorism. This past September the CIA released its report titled ‘Sharia: Threat To America’. This 177 page report is lethal in its realism regarding the … Continue reading
Partisan Humanism, Ideology & The Limits Of Political Passion
Edmund Burke and Lord Acton were the first to meaningfully engage the eclipse of Christian transcendence that was the French Revolution. Many other writers throughout the West have done the same in articulating the humanism that embodied Soviet Marxism: Raymond … Continue reading
Posted in Adolf Hitler, Alex Tocqueville, Ethics, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Morality, Philosophy, Politics, Raymond Aron, Reagan, Satan/Evil
Tagged Acton, Bourbon, Churchill, Dmitri Bystrolotov, Edmund Burke, Evil, Feast of Immortals, French Revolution, Humanism, Limits Political Passion, Markus Wolf, Marxian, Northwestern University Press, Political Passion, Purge, Raymond Aron, Romeo, Satanic Presence, Soviet, Stalin, Stasi, Tocqueville
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A True Catholic Humanist: Gilbert Murray & The Imploding West
Gilbert Murray is not often thought of being Roman Catholic, I remain unsure of his personal affections regarding the sources of contemporary Catholicism; he remained throughout his life a very deep public man of Britain, throughly engaged in the issues … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, Conservatism, Education, Eric Voegelin, Ethics, Hans Urs von Balthasar, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Middle East Peace, Morality, Near East, Perils Of Specialization, Politics, Raymond Aron, Satan/Evil, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Calvinism, Catholic Church Independence, Determinism, Edmund Burke, Enlightenment, Gilbert Murray, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri De Lubac, Kissenger, Lincoln, Matthew Arnold, Protestant Reformation, Raymond Aron, Satanism, Victorian Ethos
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The Logic Of Suicide Bombers: Motivation & Ideals
Whenever a superior civilization has encountered a weaker one, the superior civilizations culture, technology, ideals informing relations between women and men, money and a host of other tangibles from within the superior civilization cultural reserve will emanate outward threatening the … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Morality, Near East, Satan/Evil, Terrorism, Theology
Tagged Islam, Suicide Bombers, Theology of Suicide Bombers
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The Causes Of State Terror: 1789, Russia, Rawanda, The Vatican & American Exceptionalism
The ‘Reign of Terror’ that culminated in the French Revolution (1789), the Russian ‘Red Terror’ of Lenin and Stalin, African genocide in Rawanda, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, and legions of other rulers have embraced violence for political ends. Where was … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, China, Constitution, Eric Voegelin, Harry Jaffa, International Relations, John Paul II, Morality, Politics, Raymond Aron, Satan/Evil, Theology
Tagged 1789 France, American Exceptionalism, Engels, Hegel, Marx, Marxism, Pol Pot, Protestant Reformation, Rawanda, Russia, Secularism, Stalin, State Terror, Utopian
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