The Weimar Years – Part 2
The people and the factions.
Patriarchal, Christian, Hard Right
The Weimar Years – Part 1
This started out as an attempt to better understand Weimar Germany by chronicling my reactions to the audiobook version of “The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933” by Frank McDonough. Writing my
“The World You Were Raised to Survive No Longer Exists”
A thought struck me when I saw this image: It’s amazing how generations are finding themselves in that same boat, all of us repeating our own version of “The Education of Henry
Origins and Antecedents of Thanksgiving
While Thanksgiving in its present form is a distinctively American holiday, it did not spring Minerva-like from the brain of Governor Bradford in 1621 as some imagine. On the contrary we may
Alfredus Rex Fundator
"Alfred was a Christian hero, and in his Christianity he found the force which bore him, through calamity apparently hopeless, to victory and happiness."
The Story of Cortez
It seemed to me that, having to speak tonight to soldiers, that I ought to speak about soldiers. Some story, I thought, about your own profession would please you most and teach
The Last Vampyre
A Sherlock Holmes adventure starring Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke.
Some Remarks on the Maori Wars (1845-1872)
There is another description of colonial war of which we have had experience, and which from the extreme peculiarity of the country and people deserves special notice. I speak of New Zealand.
The Coming of the Friars
When King Richard of England, whom men call the Lion-hearted, was wasting his time at Messina, after his boisterous fashion, in the winter of 1190, he heard of the fame of Abbot
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