28 Years Later: Death and Rage in the Satanic Wilderness
28 Years Later is a film of which the founding father of the zombie horror film, George Romero, would have been proud. Unlike most modern zombie films,…
A Clockwork Orange: A Whig Tale of Absolute Evil
As with all great films, works of art or music and books, it is always the subtle, the partially said and unsaid, the understated but pervasive theme…
Piercing the Soul of Modernity: The Life of a Reclusive Genius
Writing the biography of most great men tends to be a difficult undertaking, for reasons as varied as the uniqueness of each such man. When exploring the…
Predestined to Greatness: Patton in Mexico
History is replete with men, whether good, bad, or ugly, who considered themselves great or at least more historically significant than the rest of humanity. One only…
A Certain Idea of Germany
The German experience has always been, though often reluctantly and unenthusiastically, in the avant-garde of Western history. From revolution to reaction, from the Reformation to the Counter-Reformation,…
Carl Schmitt’s Shakespearean Life: Between Hamlet and Othello in Weimar Germany
There have been many Shakespeare scholars, critics, and admirers throughout history. Such undying popularity, and engagement, is a testament to the profound and timeless nature of Shakespeare’s…
An Encyclopedia of Curiosities and Horrors
The expanded edition of The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History is a truly phenomenal book. Its pages are adorned not only with diverse artwork, from…
The Repressed Spirit of a Modern Monster: Understanding Horror in Japan
Modern Japan’s association, and deep involvement with, popular culture in general, and a very specific horror culture in particular, is as immediate as it is uncontroversial. To…
The Birth of the SAS: Butcher-and-Bolt in a Sea of Sand
Today, the SAS (‘’Special Air Service’’) are as revered as they are feared, with their practices, aims, and methods shrouded in mystery. Most cannot join, and those…
Gnostic Reality and Horror Theology: Matt Cardin’s Guide to Modernity’s Apocalypse
The horror genre, despite boasting literary classics such as Frankenstein, Dracula and the Castle of Otranto (to name but a few), is not often associated with high…
007: The Timeless Story of a Blunt Instrument
“James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.” This sentence from Goldfinger…
The Romantic Imagination in Egypt: A Review of Elizabeth Fay’s “Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism”
Elizabeth A. Fay. Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. What is Egypt? At first, this question appears to have many…
The End of “Orthodox” Theology in the West? A Review of David Bentley Hart’s “You Are Gods”
David Bentley Hart. You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. You Are Gods is a book which, it…