Who was the real King Arthur and what did this man do to shape the course of world history during the early years of Rome’s collapse? Speaker bio: Gerald Therrien is a historian and author of a four volume series on Canadian History entitled Canadian History Unveiled and has lectured on topics ranging from poetry,…
Category: Literature
Is a Harmony of Cultures Possible? Part I
By Cynthia Chung [This is a transcript of an RTF lecture I delivered in January 2023.] For those who are not aware of who is Gotthold Lessing, I will speak of him as a person and his contribution to German culture later on, but he is considered the father of German classical literature. And “Nathan…
Poe and Beethoven Debunk Artificial Intelligence Cult
Edgar Allan Poe and Beethoven were not only artists, but both men expressed an extremely matured sense of creative identity that transcended the bounds of all deductive-inductive forms of logic, and embraced a rigorous use of metaphore and irony that no computer could ever approximate. In this RTF Lecture, Matt Ehret showcases the roots of…
Tolstoy’s Doomed Hunt for Perfect Happiness and the Answers to Everything
In this presentation, author, historian, and RTF advisor Martin Sieff launches into an artful deconstruction of the cult of Leo Tolstoy, and the objectively destructive effects Tolstoy’s cosmology has had on humanity during his life and for the century afterwards. Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways: 1) Make a donation https://risingtidefoundation.net/supp… 2)…
Edgar Allan Poe and the Mask of the 21st Century
By David Gosselin BUT for the cruel aspersions upon the character and life of America’s poetic genius, EDGAR ALLAN POE, this volume would have remained unwritten. EDGAR ALLAN POE has been more misunderstood than any other poet of the recent past. While his life was beautiful and inspired, yet aspersed, his last moments had more…
Schiller vs. the Congress For Cultural Freedom
By Irene Eckert No, there is a limit to the tyrant’s power! When the oppressed man finds no justice,When the burden grows unbearable, he appealsWith fearless heart to Heaven,And thence brings down his everlasting rights,Which there abide, inalienably his,And indestructible as stars themselves. -Friedrich Schiller, Rutli Oath, Wilhelm Tell With the global call for FREEDOM as…