Lots of people like Ron Paul. But not generally people like me. Not many Europeans have even heard of him. The maverick Republican senator only gets microscopic coverage in the news media over here, even now when he is one of the hopefuls trying to pick up the nomination for president. I am pretty much
As an industrial scientist I have learned quite a few problem solving tricks over the years. One of the simplest, at least in principle, is just to tabulate the data into a meaningful form. Many impossible issues that fox everyone involved suddenly become obvious if you just look at the information in a way that makes
I am afraid I know almost nothing about this, but as this is the Internet I am not going to let that stop me. Sorry this video has been removed. I hear a production is in progress in Illinois, so hopefully some trailer will make it onto YouTube at some point. I have just come
The Goddess Cybele praised by Julian the Apostate (thanks to Wikipedia for the image) The author of the Hymn to Cybele, Roman emperor Julian the Apostate is a one off in history. He was the nephew of Constantine, the man that introduced Christianity to the empire. But he spent most of his adult life trying
Orwell easily opposed the Nazis as a socialist modernist, using his writing for propaganda and later warning against totalitarianism. But Tolkien and Lewis faced a dilemma: both medievalists interested in paganism and mythology—the same sources the Nazis were exploiting. This forced them to retreat into coded fantasy worlds, possibly harboring syncretist beliefs they couldn’t openly express.
I can’t top the excellent blog post about this painting, so I’ll just add a link. http://blog.interiorpaintsecrets.info/st-mercurios-killing-king-oleonus-st-mercurios-killing-emperor-julian-the-apostate/ If you want to follow my extended review of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire from the beginning (and who wouldn’t?) it starts with Augustus founding the empire.