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January 13, 2017

The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon

by Rudyard Kipling It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate. They were not easily

June 4, 2019

History in Ancient Greece (Part 2): Herodotus

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from History, by Bernadotte Perrin (published 1912). (Go back to previous chapter) But the Ancient History of the Greeks never emancipated itself wholly from the influence of the epic poems. The revolt against it

June 6, 2019

History in Ancient Greece (Part 3): Thucydides

September 22, 2018

Bryce's "The Holy Roman Empire" (Part 15)

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Gene Wolfe And Literature Bonus: Tracking Song

November 11, 2020

In this short episode, I stress the major themes of “Tracking Song” My writeup may be found here: http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-…, and the Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast has a far more thorough breakdown here

Culture·History·Literature

The Forgotten Inkling

November 10, 2020

Charles Williams. He’s not an easy man to write about and there will be more about him later, but he and T.S. Eliot were best friends, he was also buddies with J.R.R.

Culture·Literature·Nationalism

“On Milton” by Hilaire Belloc

November 6, 2020

The letters of a people reflect its noblest as architecture reflects its most intimate mind and as its religion (if it has a separate or tribal religion) reflects its military capacity or

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“The Sword of Welleran” by Lord Dunsany

October 21, 2020

Where the great plain of Tarphet runs up, as the sea in estuaries, among the Cyresian mountains, there stood long since the city of Merimna well-nigh among the shadows of the crags....

Culture·Enemies·History·Literature·Philosophy·Politics·Religion

Book review – Believe! Real Christianity taking Christendom Back

October 6, 2020

Editor’s Note: Our friend, Adam Piggott, posted this review on his site. Since it is a review of our buddy’s book, we decided to cross post it here. This article in the Catholic

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Influential Works IX – Cordwainer Smith (Intro)

October 2, 2020

(I’ll be devoting this post to a brief bio of Smith, and this book, but the short stories and novellas will be important next time. And then we’ll come back and examine

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Gene Wolfe and Literature Part 11: An Evil Guest

September 1, 2020

Here is a link to Marc’s writeup on Evil Guest, which still needs just a little polish and clarity for its final draft. https://pastebin.com/wJeth1dD During the video I believe hw misspoke at

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The Library of Alexandria – Southern Agrarian Version

August 13, 2020

Written by Stephen Clay McGehee. Reposted with permission from The Southern Agrarian – http://www.southernagrarian.com/ Some of the topics here are admittedly quite a stretch for Southern Agrarianism, and this is one example. Today’s post was