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…
The Art of Political Lying
By Matthew Ehret With idle tales this fills our empty ears;The next reports what from the first he hears;The rolling fictions grow in strength and size,Each author adding to the former lies.Here vain credulity, with new desires,Leads us astray, and groundless joy inspires;The dubious whispers, tumults fresh designed,And chilling fears astound the anxious mind. -Ovid’s…
St Augustine’s City of God and Lessons for Today’s Religious Wars
By Matthew Ehret Last week, I published an article on The Truth of the Peace of Westphalia followed up with the forgotten Jewish-Christian-Muslim-Confucian Alliance of the 8-9th century. The following story should be seen as a continuation of that unfolding series. It isn’t often that a generation lives through a systemic breakdown crisis. While many shallower minds are quick…
Why the Jews of Khazaria, the Himyarites and GokTurk Empire are Keys to Universal History
By Matthew Ehret This article was also presented by the author as a class, as part of the RTF Lecture Series “The Renaissance Principle Across the Ages“. With the fires of potential global war once again erupting across the Middle East, and with obvious anti-jewish rage amplifying to an extreme degree, I would like to take…
The Peace of Westphalia as a Lesson in Solving Religious Wars Past Present or Future
By Matthew Ehret In 1999, a seemingly innocuous speech occurred in Chicago that unveiled a new paradigm in world affairs that was dubbed “the Blair Doctrine”. In this speech, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair asserted that the realities of the new age of terrorism had rendered the respect for sovereign nation states irrelevant and obsolete requiring a…
Symposium: The Edgar A. Poe You Never Knew
On June 8, 2019 a symposium hosted by the Rising Tide Foundation titled “The Edgar Allan Poe You Never Knew” was held in Montreal Canada. 160 years of slanders begun by Rufus Griswold and enemies of Poe have kept alive a false image of this great poet which this event intended to disprove. The first…
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…
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
By Cynthia Chung What say of it? what say CONSCIENCE grim, That spectre in my path? – Chamberlayne’s Pharonnida There has always been a fascination with “horror” since time immemorial, such that much of what functions to thrill us today is not much different from the sort of folk tales told hundreds if not thousands…
Schiller’s Ghost Seer, Intelligence Methods and a Global Citizenry
A Study of Schiller’s The Ghost Seer By Cynthia Chung [The audio version of this article can be listened to here.] The Ghost Seer first appeared in several instalments in Schiller’s publication journal Thalia from 1787 to 1789, and was later published as a three-volume book. It was one of the most popular works of…
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) and the Mask of the Twentieth Century
By David Gosselin [Originally published on The Age of the Muses] “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…