What We’re Reading
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. Dickens is the Victorian-era author. His works are now the stuff of cultural legend and treasure, with numerous works having been made for…
A New Dark Age?
John Daniel Davidson’s Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come is an important book dealing with issues that impact the lives not…
Ode to the Archangels
Michael, His sword is sharp, His armor thick, He does not play a flute or harp, His spear a deadly stick. Oh, Holy Knight of Christ, Who…
Revolt in José Ortega y Gasset’s “The Revolt of the Masses”
There are no longer protagonists; there is only the chorus. ~ José Ortega y Gasset Revolt. In a reductionist and censorial age, as is the current…
Shakespeare and the Will to Power
Like the majority of Shakespeare’s plays, The Tempest, which is said to be his last play, is an exquisite and perhaps final manifestation of the dramatic genius…
Total Love
Tired Withering Dark olive skin resting on the soft embrace of light blue shirt, like weary Atlas leaning against hospitable skies momentarily. And then those chestnut punctuations…
On the Importance of Finding Meaning in Life
In March of 1877, Ulysses S. Grant left the presidency with a sullied reputation. It was a tough pill to swallow for a man who emerged from…
To Die at Appomattox
On the removal of the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery The compromise has been forsaken. She was lifted from the pedestal As an airbus smeared…
(flori)cartograph
Would that I but had a garden Wherein which I could tend the soil, And stand watch like patient warden Over the seedlings as they grow. What…
Three Times Gnostic Olympics
Like a Magus, he tortures, enrages, soothes, fills us with false terror. ~ Horace Gnosticism is an overall term for a syncretic intellectual influence, mostly Eastern and…
Plato, Nietzsche, and Strauss in Beijing
In the spring of 2015, Professor Liu Xiaofeng of Renmin University in Beijing invited Laurence Lampert to give a series of lectures at three of China’s leading universities. The purpose…
Power, Glory, and Vanity: The Politics of Romantic Poetry
“And on the pedestal these words appear: / ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ / Nothing beside…
The Culture of Neoindividualism
“Individualism is a mature and calm feeling, which disposes each member of the community to sever himself from the mass of his fellow creatures; and to draw…
