On Sunday October 5, 2025 The Rising Tide Foundation hosted scientist/engineer and author Hans Schantz who delivered a lecture on the subversion of modern science and how to reclaim the lost heritage of a science founded on principles of creativity and discoveries. Listen to Hans’ previous RTF lecture ‘Francis Bacon: Father of Scientism’ here: https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025……
Author: Matthew Ehret
Strategic Thinking for the Arctic in the 21st Century and Beyond (Peter Scholz Lecture)
Urban planner, rail consultant and visionary Peter Scholz delivers a groundbreaking lecture to the Rising Tide Foundation about his grand strategy for Canada’s arctic. This lecture includes Peter’s intersectional analysis which blends a deep understanding of Canada’s amazing resource potential, rail development potential, topographical features, mineralogical, climatological, sociological, cultural and economic dynamics. Considerations about delusional…
The Experimental and Historical Foundations of Electricity (Featuring Prof. Andre Assis)
Sadly very few people understand that a long standing battle has been waged between two opposing traditions both laying claim to the title of ‘western science’. Where one tradition encourages the actual creative experience of new discoveries of universals, the other, more impotent tradition proposes simple acts of memorization of formulas, repetition and irresponsible speculation…
Beyond Geopolitics EP. 5: Why Islam is NOT the Enemy of Christianity (An Arab Christian Perspective)
In this episode of Beyond Geopolitics, Matt Ehret speaks with Myriam Charabaty about her life and experiencing as a Christian living in the Middle East, and her brilliant research exposing the true reasons for radical Islamism/Takfirism, Clash of Civilization doctrines, and the crusader doctrine across the ages. Certain forces today would like to re-brand Christianity…
Conceptualizing Humanity’s Long Term Survival: Open vs. Closed Systems
During this March 2, 2021 lecture to a class at the Moscow National Research Nuclear University hosted by Dr. Edward Lozansky, the Rising Tide Foundation’s Matt Ehret introduces the two opposing options for conceptualizing systems both in general terms and with concrete examples in human economics. Whether we choose to assume that boundaries to our…
What is and to what end do we study Universal History?
In 1789, the world was electrified with an idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. If this proposition be true, then the entire paradigm of government practiced since ancient times had to be completely transformed from systems of hereditary power enforcing the rule of might makes…
Toussaint Louverture, the Haitian Revolution and the Evolution of the American Republic
In this lecture, historian and author Gerald Therrien introduces the turbulent world of 1787-1804 which shaped (and was in turn shaped by) the Haitian Revolution establishing the world’s second republic. This was a world shaped by battles within America itself between opposing factions of Americans who read the newly established Constitution from diametrically opposing worldviews….
Towards a Culture of Genius – Part II
By David Gosselin The following essay is part two of a series. Click here for part one. Having examined Schiller’s notion of Genius in the last article, it became clear that the wisdom of the “masters” described in his poem was not the kind of knowledge born out of the natural insight and creative intuition…
Towards a Culture of Genius
By David Gosselin In the following poem, Friedrich Schiller turns his thought-poetry towards the question of Genius. The question of what constitutes Genius remains even more elusive in our modern age than it was at the time of Schiller’s writing in the 18th century. In his time, the classical wisdom of previous ages had already…
Symposium The Role of Art in Shaping a Sovereign Citizenry (Jan 15-March 12, 2023)
It was once better understood that both politics and economics are downstream from culture. Whether the values and passions of a society are tuned to the Good, the Beautiful and the Just or whether they are tempered by the opposites of those virtues will say alot about the aesthetic practices and creative work of the…