In order to successfully navigate the raging seas of the media storm, one must be ever-mindful of the overall designs of mass media without getting lost in endless details and rabbit trails that will be forgotten in a month. Remember …
Tag: Liberalism
The Republic & the Soul
One favored slogan among American conservatives and libertarians is that “the answer to 1984 is 1776.” Yet the Enlightenment political ideals of liberty and equality constructed today’s pleasure-dome police state; 1776 led directly to 1984. Contemporary writer Fr. Yuri Pushchaev …
Forged in War
The White émigré Ivan Solonevich (1891-1953), author of Popular Monarchy, saw firsthand how the “moderate” ideology of liberalism led to national collapse, revolution and tyranny in Russia in the aftermath of the First World War. An agent of the White …
Knowledge Without Wisdom
Our emergent technocracy submerges us in a sea of knowledge. Modern wonders reach their apex in the readily-available stores of data at anyone’s fingertips. Given this seemingly magical commodity was heretofore unknown to vast swaths of now dead humanity, one would …
Counterfeit Paradise
Along with another round of Beltway scandal and misdeeds in the Middle East, this spring has seen the United States once again consumed by debate over homosexual “marriage,” with the US Supreme Court deciding upon the constitutionality of legislation banning …
Pleasure-Dome Police State
“We should expect tyranny to result from democracy, the most savage subjection from an excess of liberty”. -Plato, Republic, Book VIII, 564 a This December, as many Americans attended to their rituals of shopping, spectator sports and celebrity voyeurism, the 2012 fiscal …
The Soul of the East 
A Reflection on “Freedom”
The Fourth of July holiday (decreasingly referred to as Independence Day) is an opportunity for countless Americans to have a day off to gorge themselves on food and beer, watch fireworks, and utter a few superficial platitudes about freedom. Minimal …
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