Legend has a funny way of migrating from one culture to another, where each subsequent incarnation is passed off as […]

A sense of humor is integral to appreciating the warp and woof of human life.  It is for this reason […]

George Orwell noted that totalitarian regimes are not concerned with uncovering (that is: elucidating) actual history; they are solely concerned […]

“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity […]

  “To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.” ―Abraham Lincoln “Silence becomes cowardice when occasion […]

As already discussed, World History has many moving parts.  Consequently, there is no single “right answer” to when one period […]

  Man’s most primal longing is to feel as though he “belongs”, as though he “matters” in some way, as […]

THE PREDICAMENT: The first paragraph of Ernest Becker’s Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece, The Denial of Death, reads: “In times such as […]

  The debasement of our public discourse has involved the on-going degeneration of our thinking.  This degeneration has lead to […]