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Confused Societies - Contradictory Goals 18 Aug 2013 | 11:04 pm
Modernization’s inconsistencies. Regardless of popular shibboleths, more often than not, the meeting of cultures took the form of collisions. These tended to be wars followed by the subjugation of t...
Towards A Recovery Of The Conservative Imagination 18 Aug 2013 | 10:57 pm
The American journalist Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, interviewing Adolf Hitler before WW II, captured the German Führer, who after he introduced himself in German, with a motion to the throngs that awaite...
The Courage to Change 8 Aug 2013 | 07:14 pm
Self-confidence is needed to propel nations from the past into the future. As we look back and around, myths appear to be a reoccurring product of all communities, civilizations, nations and religion...
Misopaedia and the Insolence of Gay Monarchy 28 Jul 2013 | 07:15 pm
Today’s issue of depreciating childhood dovetails perfectly with my previous installment on infantilizing adults: both are reflecting a loss of the sense of maturity and responsibility in our Western ...
Wealth, Poverty And Ignorance 25 Jul 2013 | 07:26 pm
Favored myths and popular lies. There are developments that do not fit your anticipations if you are socialized by Western values. Reality and our cultural assumptions can clash. Several postulates t...
René Guénon and Eric Voegelin on the Degeneration of Right Order 22 Jul 2013 | 05:32 am
I. Introduction. No area of Western history is quite as recondite as that of the Diadochic empires, the successor-kingdoms that sprang up in the wake of Alexander the Great’s meteoric campaigns (334 –...
The Nations’ Calling Card 11 Jul 2013 | 08:19 am
Representation by the worst we have. There is a wisdom that Duly Noted likes to repeat. Quite often, their most despicable members define communities. This is a likely outcome as we notice the “bad o...
Can Islam Be Reformed? A Response Essay To Daniel Pipes 10 Jul 2013 | 08:38 am
In a past article, I already discussed some issues of Islamic civilization which we are apt to neglect in our analysis of the current situation in the Middle East. Obviously, the potential force of de...
Thought Control In The Name Of Mother Earth - Part 3 30 Jun 2013 | 07:07 am
This is the third part of a three-part essay. In Assignment in Utopia (1937), Eugene Lyons offers what were at the time perhaps the best eye-witness accounts of Stalinism as a state religion. He was ...
A Stealthy Menace in the Shadows 26 Jun 2013 | 09:47 am
We are on our way to uniform tax rates. Much to his ultimate peril, the contemporary suffers from a weakness; he is inclined to believe anything as long as it is not obvious. Even more frequently, i....
