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…
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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…
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…
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,…
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…