The last hundred years have brought humanity the bitter fruits of totalitarian regimes. Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Communist China, Cambodia, Cuba, and so many other places have served—and some still serve—as the killing grounds of raw ideology. Dachau, Auschwitz, and the Gulag are names known to most of us, but for every one of these…
Horror, Heroism, and a Woman Named Heda
August 10, 2022
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What Is the Connection Between Modern Motivation and Age-Old Hope? Part 1
Is there a connection between motivation and hope? And do we need to know about it? Let’s immediately dismiss ideas like that found in a Russian proverb: “In the kingdom of hope there is no winter.” We needn’t talk about hope as being mere wishful thinking. Let’s talk about something much more powerful and essential….
Images of Hope: The Good Shepherd
By the third century A.D., the Roman Empire had devolved into an amalgamation of jaded peoples, living with constant war and under endless political instability. They numbed their existential anxiety with pleasures and luxuries and explored myriad religions to try to fill the spiritual void of their age. The Roman identity had lost meaning for…
Why I Don’t Watch TV News
June 27, 2022
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Commentary If you have any sense of history (and that commodity is becoming rarer as fantasy takes its place), you’ll know how difficult it was for most human generations to acquire knowledge. For millennia personal observation and hearsay were all we had. Then writing was invented, but books were staggeringly expensive until printing came along,…
Our Problem With That Very Real Place, Hell
Does hell really exist? Jordan B. Peterson in a recent address to Hillsdale College said that “if you don’t believe in hell, then you haven’t thought about it enough!” I am reminded of that wonderful moment in Christopher Marlowe’s play “Doctor Faustus” where Faustus asks Mephistopheles why, since he is a devil, he isn’t in hell….
An Elite Friendship: Diego Velázquez and Peter Paul Rubens
May 14, 2022
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In 1629, Diego Velázquez left Spain for his first visit to Italy. Although one of his country’s leading artists and court painter to King Philip IV, this was still an opportunity not to be missed. At the Spanish court, Velázquez had access to Philip’s impressive art collection, but he had not seen examples of work…
Taoism: Is It Religion or Science?
Bruce Lee, the Hong Kong movie star and martial artist, coined the slogan “Be Water” in an interview during the late 1960s. This iconic tagline is more than a statement of Lee’s kung fu philosophy; it has been borrowed as a tactic of various political and resistance movements. “Be formless, shapeless like water.” For those…
Shoes Off Indoors Good Manners or Essential for Household Health
April 26, 2022
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The practice of taking one’s shoes off at the door is often thought of as a cultural choice rather than a hygienic one, however, a study conducted by Australian environmental chemists suggests that this should not be the case. Scientists from the Australian Macquarie University who are studying the household environment and what contaminants exist…
A Day in April That Some Past Poets Implore Us to Remember
April 7, 2022
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It was dawn, April 19, 1775, and the British troops who had left Boston earlier that night arrived at Lexington, Massachusetts, in search of caches of arms gathered by American colonialists and hoping to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock. Assembled on Lexington’s town green was a collection of civilians: militia roused to confront the…
Samurai Trash Collectors Turning Heads With Their Impressive Litter-Picking Antics
These unusual samurai warriors have a special mission. (Video courtesy of Gomihiroi Samurai)
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