With the bold flourish of a quill, four million desperate souls became “freed men” on Jan. 1, 1863. Were they really free, or did the battle for their independence and economic survival just begin? What can we today learn about the attempts to overthrow the imperial policies of Great Britain and their supporters in North…
Category: Classes
How Tragedy Can Heal Society: The Oresteia as Political Therapy with Dr. Nicolai Petro
What does classical tragedy have to do with geopolitics? Why is it so important for modern statesmen, diplomats to think like Aeschylus and why should more artists think like statesmen? In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Dr Nicolai Petro introduces classical Greek Tragedy from a moral, and philosophical perspective containing within its essence, the necessary…
James Fenimore Cooper’s ‘The Bravo’: A Lesson in Political Intelligence
By Cynthia Chung [This is a transcript of an RTF lecture that was delivered as part of the “Storytelling, Myth-making and the Shaping of Universal History” Symposium.] So the subject of this class, as the title would suggest, is on James Fenimore Cooper’s ‘The Bravo,’ and I am sure many people here are probably aware of…
Local Motion or Action-at-a-Distance: The Permanent Debate [RTF Lecture with Dr. John Plaice]
With the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century came the understanding that the same scientific laws govern events in the heavens and on Earth. With this change of outlook came a new problem: How can bodies that are very distant from each other mutually affect their respective motions? Broadly, two points of view have confronted…
What Determines A Limit to Growth?
By Cynthia Chung This is an article version of a class Cynthia Chung gave for the symposium “The Earth Next 100 Years” which can be viewed here. What Determines a “Limit to Growth”? This might seem like a rather ignorant or simplistic question to some. Many will think the answer rather obvious, that the Limit…
Symposium: Cultural Optimism, Art and the New Silk Road
On Sunday April 28, 2019, a symposium hosted by the Rising Tide Foundation was held in Montreal, Canada dealing with the unified growth of cultural optimism, beautiful art and economic development as it is being manifested today with the New Silk Road in Asia, Africa and beyond. Presentations were given by a pianist, a dancer,…
Study of the Heavens: a History of Chinese Astronomy
Transcript of a lecture given by Cynthia Chung at ‘The Universe, Creativity and You‘ Symposium. We live in a strange time. Many have forgotten the power of imagination and are instead bogged down with the reality of ‘practicality’. The reality of ‘the budget’, and the reality of ‘what is deemed useful and what is deemed…
An Evening with Carl Zha: Understanding the Dynamics of the Asia Pacific
On Sunday July 16th at 7:30pm, geopolitical analyst Carl Zha delivered a lecture to the Rising Tide Foundation on the historical and present dynamics shaping the Asia Pacific with a look towards the opposing views of morality, civilization and the future shaping the world. Become a supporter of Carl Zha on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/silknsteel Follow…
Uncovering the Lost Secrets of Weber’s Electrodynamics (Dr Andre Assis RTF Lecture)
Everyone knows that a revolution in physics occured with Max Planck’s insights into the quantum world over a century ago. But did you know that 50 years before Planck’s revolutionary insights into the quantum of action, the great German scientist Wilhelm Weber, working with a network of great renaissance scientists like Carl F. Gauss, Bernard…
The Battle for a Science of Physical Economy & the Clash of Two Physical Space Times
For thousands of years, humanity has been pulled between two opposing paradigms. Where one paradigm recognizes the moral reason built into the fabric of the universe itself as well as human nature, the other outlook asserts that the universe is governed by cold utilitarianism devoid of moral virtue. One promotes systems fit for free people…