Matthew Ehret joins the Discovery Institute’s Dr. Gunter Bechly and talk show host Zain Khan for a lively discussion on the Darwin hoax, it’s political origins and why any honest scientist who cares about truth must recognize its invalidity in the face of empirical data.
Trump’s Japan Deal… a benefit to the world or abusive new Plaza Accords of the 21st century?
Trump’s recent ‘Japanese trade deal’ has been heralded as a success in American system economics and has offered many people hope that the industrial recovery of America is upon us. With this deal, Japan will accept a 15% tariff on exports to the USA (instead of the threatened 25% tariff), and Tokyo only had to give…
Iran’s Eurasian pivot is the key to averting WWIII
Washington’s imperial ambitions and Tel Aviv’s fanaticism have pushed the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation. But Iran’s integration into the Eurasian axis offers humanity a vital off-ramp. By Matthew Ehret The world now teeters on the edge of a nuclear abyss, and were it left solely to the machinations of the US and…
The Dope Trade and the Crown: A Very-British Wealth of Nations
By Cynthia Chung The following is from my newly published book “The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set.” “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.” – Henry John Temple, aka Lord Palmerston (Britain’s Prime…
Clarity vs. Obscurity I: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared
By Adam Sedia Classical and modern poetry are inarguably different. Indeed, modernism’s chief boast is its break with classicism and tradition more broadly. The difference is palpable in even the most cursory reading of a classical poem alongside a modernist one. Yet in what does the difference lie? It might be tempting to follow Justice…
Clarity vs. Obscurity II: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared
By Adam Sedia For Part I to this series click here. In my last essay, I discussed the difference between classical and modernist poetry as a difference of worldviews. Classicism views the art as a vehicle to reveal universal truths, while modernism denies such truths and instead views the primary purpose of poetry as inducing…
Romeo and Juliet: “It was just that the time was wrong”
By Boniface One of Dire Straits greatest hits was their song Romeo and Juliet. It takes a seemingly normal view of the Shakespeare tragedy, that it is the greatest love story of all time. But it does have one line that is good: Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start And I bet, when you…
Spenser and Marlowe – God’s Spies
By Gerald Therrien “Come, let’s away to prison:We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage:When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down,And ask of thee forgiveness: so we’ll live,And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laughAt gilded butterflies, and hear poor roguesTalk of court news; and we’ll talk with them…
The Tragedy of Leonard Bernstein
By Uwe Alschner What causes people with great artistic talent to close themselves off from truth and goodness and beauty? Ultimately, it is a lack of education. Education that is structured Socratically and that places the question of the view of the world and humanity at the center of those considerations that are at the starting point of efforts…
FDR, Stalin and the Untold History of the New Deal
The Clash of the Two Americas is now available to a Russian audience as one giant 600 page behemoth. As part of the promotion for the Russian edition, DenTV and Nashe Zavtra publishing have arranged a series of interviews tackling different aspects of my research. In this week’s discussion with eminent scholar Dionis Kaptari, we…