A Week Without Napoleon
Nearly every human being has some hyper-fixation with a historical figure or event. Whether we know it or not, this commonality binds us in a joyous union…
Eye for an Eye: A Review of Perestroika by João Cerqueira
As a historical fiction novel, João Cerqueira encapsulates Soviet Union and Communist history during and around the time of Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev’s reign over the…
Creating a Nightmare: Henry Fuseli and the “The Nightmare”
Henry Fuseli was born on February 7, 1741, in Zürich, Switzerland. Originally named Johann Heinrich Füssli at birth, Fuseli saw himself engrossed in his father’s artistic endeavors…
Will the Real Deism Please Stand Up?
Joseph Waligore’s The Spirituality of the English and American Deists: How God Became Good marvels at all the possible assumptions of deism by primarily studying identified and…
Reagan’s Hope
Ronald Reagan was a steadfast man of God who stood up for America and the American people against the Soviet Union and international communism during the Cold…
The Man Who Almost Destroyed Paris
Le Corbusier, or Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, was born on October 6, 1887 in a densely populated town—La Chaux-de-Fonds—in the mountainous region of Swiss Jura. The town’s location and…
A Cat Named Feuerbach
I first read Ludwig Feuerbach after discussing Gilead with a mentor during my senior year of university. This novel is written in first person, almost like a…
Nine Days a Queen and the “Execution of Lady Jane Grey”
Lady Jane Grey was born into the Tudor family by Henry Grey and Lady Frances Brandon, holding strong bloodline connections to Henry VIII, in October 1537. Being…
Hegel and Heidegger on Nature
In Hegel and Heidegger On Nature and World, Raoni Padui explains why these philosophers reject naturalism, subjective idealism, and dualism in their conjunction with nature and the…
Why Bob Dylan?
In January of 2022, my dad and I, one Saturday morning, took a drive. Our main conversation topic had been about getting concert tickets to an artist…
Shakespeare’s Reformation
The Elizabethan Reformation was, paradoxically, a period of persecution, tolerance, and reconciliation between English Protestants and Catholics as they saw the coming impact of secularism. While “Protestantism…
Morality and Immorality in Tom Jones
Henry Fielding became one of the first notable English novelists after The Theatrical Licensing Act of 1737 challenged his works to eliminate personal attacks on Robert Walpole…
Distraction in Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift, an Anglo-Irishman by heritage, was primarily known for his satirically inclined works in English Literature during the seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century literary movements called the Restoration and Augustan…