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Tag Archives: Stalin
The Wager: God & Tyranny
If the deaths of Kim Jong II, Christopher Hitchens and Vaclav Havel can be surmised briefly it is this: no mere Machiavellian calculus is sufficient concerning the scales by which men discern the movement of Nations. The end of the … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, International Relations, John Paul II, Morality, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Havel, Hitchens, Kim Jong II, Stalin
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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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Perez Zagorin: Thomas Hobbes & The Father Of Statist Life
No other author possesses the firm elegant grasp of the violent ideas that rocked the time of Thomas Hobbes (author of Leviathan), a political tome giving foundation to Fascist and Totalitarian ideology within the 20th century; than Perez Zagorin. Perez … Continue reading
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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