By Cynthia Chung “No, there is a limit to the tyrant’s power! When the oppressed man finds no justice, When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals with fearless heart to heaven, and thence brings down his everlasting rights, which there abide, inalienably his, and indestructible as stars themselves. The primal state of nature reappears, wherein man…
Tag: Universal History
Two New Canadian Patriot Books! Forlorn Hope and The Coming Storm by Gerald Therrien
Far too many historians have attempted to construct narratives of North American history from artificially narrow filters and assumptions which deny the objective reality of an oligarchy, or the principled conflict emanating from opposing ideas of Man, God and Law which have shaped world history for millennia. From ancient history through the collapse of Rome…
Harmony vs. Struggle: Frederic Church’s and Alexander von Humboldt’s Legacy in the Age of Darwin
Join Alex Dimitrios of Space Commune (spacecommune.substack.com) to explore the dramatic clash between art and science in the 19th century as we explore the worlds of Frederic Church and Charles Darwin as they took two divergent paths from the work of the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. This presentation delves into how Church, a master…
The Arctic: Theater of War or Global Cooperation?
In this new film, the Arctic is presented as you’ve never imagined it: Both as a strategic battleground over the future of the human species today, and as pivot of world history shaping the Russia-USA partnership that saved the Union during the Civil War. This film showcases how the Arctic represents either a domain of…
Schiller’s Aesthetical Letters in the Context of Confucian and Platonic Philosophy
It has become a modern truism to say “politics is downstream from culture”… but few people take the time to really do justice to that truth by pondering its profound implications. What does culture DO when it is working? What does it look like? What attributes does it cultivate in the hearts and minds of…
Cultural Warfare and the American Revolution (Franklin, West and Morse Revisited)
In this lecture delivered as part of the Rising Tide Foundation series “Towards an Age of Creative Reason”, Matthew Ehret introduces the fight to establish a cultural revolution in the arts and sciences initiated by Benjamin Franklin, and a small international network of co-conspirators of the 18th century which was then understood to be the vital…
The Historic Clash of Two Opposing Paradigms: Gilpin’s Landbridge vs. Mahan’s World Maritime Empire
By Matthew Ehret Compared the great initiatives taken on behalf of freedom and anti colonialism throughout the past 260 years, today’s America appears to be a strange and foolish creature running roughshod over the dignity of people and nations in a race for mass nuclear extermination. Such is the image projected by Mike Pompeo’s anti-China…
WHY Russia Saved the United States: The Forgotten History of a Brotherhood
Why did Russia’s Czar Alexander II deploy the Russian navy to the coasts of the USA during the height of the Civil War in 1863? What dynamic shaped the rise of the great rail building traditions across Russia, the USA, Germany, Japan and France in the 19th century and how did this process shape the…
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Happy Juneteenth everyone! Here is the transcript of a lecture I delivered for RTF on the subject of Frederick Douglass. By Cynthia Chung It is a pretty heated situation in the United States right now, pretty much likened to a second civil war in the sense of there being a clash as to what is to be…
The Legislation of Lycurgus and Solon (a new translation)
The Rising Tide Foundation is proud to unveil a new translation by poet David Gosselin of Friedrich Schiller’s immortal lecture comparing the legislations of Lycurgus’ Sparta and Solon’s Athens first delivered to students at Jena University in 1792 as part of his course on Universal History. The lessons and insights contained within Schiller’s lecture provide…