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- The Don gets his phone calls returned
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Tag Archives: Raymond Aron
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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John Paul II: The Defeat Of Modernity & A New Birth Of Freedom
Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Winston Churchill and Pope John Paul II had much in common. Aron and the French left were ardent in their support of a secular humanism that had its birth in 1789, Berlin was a deracinated Jew … Continue reading
Posted in Arnold Toynbee, Eric Voegelin, John Paul II, Morality, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Huxley, Isaiah Berlin, Liberty, Modernity, Morality, Orwell, Pope John Paul II, Raymond Aron, Winston Churchill
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France: Unintended Consequences Of A Bastard Ally
Few academics have been driven to excoriate the craven French as they lovingly embraced Marxism, the incubus of revolutionary fever that cradled the genocide in South East Asia. Even fewer have quarried how Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag’ was the text that finished … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, China, International Relations, Politics, Raymond Aron, Sociology
Tagged 1968, Andre Gilde, Andre Malraux, France, Julien Benda, Marxism, Mauriac, Maurice Ponty, Pol Pot, Raymond Aron, Revel, Richard Wolin, Solzhenitsyn
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Clausewitz vs. Sun Tzu
Their is an old saying at West Point: ‘beginners study tactics, amateurs study strategy, but only the best study logistics’. Logistics being the formal study of how one achieves a goal. Their is not always symmetry between these competing claims … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquity, Arnold Toynbee, China, Ethics, International Relations, Kant, Morality, Politics, Raymond Aron, Sun Tzu, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Antoine Henri Jumini, Art of War, Christopher Bassford, Clausewitz, Raymond Aron, specificity of christian ethics, Sun-Tzu, Taoism, Toynbee, Vo Nguyen Giap
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George Orwell & Aldous Huxley Fathers of Doublespeak: A Clarion Call To Church & Artists
Both Orwell (real name Eric Blair) and Huxley left a substantial body of work that bore out the conviction that modern man was incapable of coping, resolving the demands of his time. Other writers, less artistic yet still formidable in … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, Conservatism, Eric Voegelin, Hans Urs von Balthasar, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Morality, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Raymond Aron, Reagan, Sociology, solzhenitzen, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Andre Malraux, Churchill, Europe, Francios Mauriac, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gaudium et Spes, Huxley, Ignatio Ellacuria, James Joyce, John Paul II, John XXIII, Orwell, Raymond Aron, Roosevelt, Samuel Beckett, Second Vatican Council, Solzhenitsyn, specificity of christian ethics, Truman, Vaclav Haval, WWII
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Geography, Child Rearing, Dominant Politics & Influences On Personality Development
The sad truth concerning most graduate study was the sheer limitedness, narrowness that comprises most disciplines, this is especially damaging for the humanities where a synoptic approach is most adequately required. The arts have been displaced from their primacy since … Continue reading
Posted in International Relations, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Amir Tahari, Bernard Lewis, Child Rearing, Foaud Ajami, geography personality development, Gilbert Murray, Hernando Soto, Humanities confusion, Hyppocrates, Ibn Kaldun, Jared Diamond, John Mackinder, Lucian Pye, Noga Arika, Personality development, Raymond Aron, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Synoptic, Thucydides, Winston Churchill
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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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