In his classic novel 1984, the 20th century British writer George Orwell depicted a repressive, single-party state that sought to justify and expand its total domination through perpetual war against distant foes, employing the tactic of rallying the masses “around …
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Third Rome Resurgent
St. Paul of Tarsus may have earned martyrdom under the reign of Nero, but he also understood pagan Rome as the guarantor of order against evil and chaos within fallen creation[1]. Today’s enforcers of the End of History, however, wield …
Shock Troops of Dystopia
On the eleventh anniversary of the September 11th attacks, America learned that the country’s ambassador in Libya had just been killed in the line of duty. On business in Benghazi, J. Christopher Stevens, two contract security men and an information specialist had sought refuge in a U.S. consular …
The Soul of the East 