C.S. Lewis is famously known for his work ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’ as well as his impassioned defense of Christianity in an age of accelerating materialism, but he is less known for his work in science fiction. Although not often appreciated as these works deserve, Lewis’ sci-fi trilogy (Out of the Silent…
Category: Classes
Science, God and the Origins of the Metric System with Fehmi Krasniqi
In this Rising Tide Foundation presentation, Fehmi Krasniqi (creator of K19: Secret of the Great Pyramid documentary) unveils his discovery that the origins of the metric system are not to be found in the French revolution as is popularly believed, but much further back in time. In fact, as Fehmi points out, not only was…
Warren Harding: America’s Greatest Unknown President [RTF Lecture with Martin Sieff]
This Sunday, August 20, 2023, historian, journalist and RTF advisor Martin Sieff delivered the Rising Tide Foundation weekly lecture. Warren Harding restored Habeas Corpus and the Rule of Law after the Red Terror hysteria of the Woodrow Wilson years. He ended the worst depression in American history in record time. He defended black civil rights…
The Power of Classical Culture in Shaping the Future: The New Silk Road and an African Renaissance
On Sunday April 28, 2019, a symposium was held in Montreal Canada dealing with the unified growth of cultural optimism and beautiful art and real economic development as it is being manifested today with the New Silk Road in Asia, Africa and beyond. Cynthia Chung, co-founder of the Rising Tide Foundation, focuses on the importance…
The Spirit of Win-Win Cooperation: 15-19th Century Diplomatic Success of China
Although it is well known that China has become the world’s largest and fastest growing economy in the world- outpacing the USA since the unveiling of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, it is too often forgotten that this dominant position is not new, but merely a return to the “normal” state of world…
The Art of Political Freedom Part I: Thomas Cole’s Course of Empire and the Rise of the Hudson River School
In this first of a two-part lecture series, RTF director Matt Ehret delivers a presentation on Thomas Cole’s Course of Empire and broader political struggles over the soul of the early republic and humanity more broadly during the 19th century. You will be introduced to the aesthetical movement of painting that aspired to achieve the…
Reconstruction: Struggles to Right a Nation from Turmoil
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…
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…