Dr. Luc Montagnier and the Coming Revolutions in Optical Biophysics

By Matthew Ehret On February 8, 2022, Nobel Prize winning virologist Dr Luc Montagnier passed away. An this essay will discuss an important aspect of Montagnier’s contribution to human knowledge which has fallen under the radar of too many analysts and citizens, which I believe he would want to be remembered by. What is Optical…

RTF Review of “Seven Days in May”

John Frankenheimer’s “Seven Days in May” (1964) may be a Hollywood movie but it is also an incredibly insightful account of the problem with Cold War thinking, based off of the book by the same title. At the time it was meant to be a lesson and warning to those who allowed themselves to be…

An Overview of the Bay of Pigs and its Relevance for Today

By Cynthia Chung “There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.” – William Shakespeare Once again we find ourselves in a situation of crisis, where the entire world holds its breath all at once and can only wait to see whether this volatile black cloud…

Dark Ages: What Are They and Are We Headed for One?

“Dark Age” is a term bandied about shamelessly in discourse, but in its strictest sense a dark age occurs when a society completely loses literacy. This presentation will explore three dark ages: the Greek Dark Ages after the fall of Mycenean society (11th-8th centuries BC); the Nubian “X-Group” after the fall of the Kushite Empire…

How to Save a Republic Part Two: Lincoln and the Greenbacks

By Matthew Ehret In my last paper I introduced the figure of Alexander Hamilton (first Treasury Secretary and founder of the American System of political economy). I reviewed how America was saved from an early dismemberment in the early years of chaos after 1783’s Peace of Paris which finally ended the war with Britain but left…

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…

Alexander von Humboldt’s Cosmos, New Translation into Spanish

By Dr. John Plaice Last weekend, walking in the Candelaria, the beautiful historic center of Bogotá, I entered for the first time the Librería Siglo del Hombre La Candelaria. I immediately spotted Descripción de China, Giuseppe Marino’s Spanish translation, published in May 2023, of the first volume of Matteo Ricci’s Della entrata della Compagnia di Giesù e Christianità nella…