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Monthly Archives: June 2023
Heaven Has Claws
“Heaven Has Claws” is the remarkable story of six months when Adrian Conan Doyle, youngest son of Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) explored the Swahili coast. In the 1950s, shortly after the war and on the cusp of independence, Doyle … Continue reading
Adrian Conan Doyle “Heaven Has Claws” – Quote Of The Day
“In the age of slaves, the freeman had still outnumbered them, and now, in the “age of freedom”, for the first time liberty had fled from the majority. Genius, statecraft, the very power of leadership having become suspect in a … Continue reading
Philanthropy and Nature
One of the contentions of Patrick Deneen in his most recent book “Regime Change” (review forthcoming – I’m not finished yet) is that while the elites of old going back through history (be they robber barons of the 20s or … Continue reading
On Force
The Eastern mind has a different understanding of God than the West does. Our God is rational, Aristotelian even. He is a moral philosopher and a physicist. And a humanitarian. We’re comfortable with this God; He fits into our neat … Continue reading
The Chingchiaopei – Ancient Nestorian Christianity in China
In an empty field outside the walls of Sianfu in central China there is a large slab of stone inscribed with ancient Chinese mixed with Syriac, and adorned with a cross. On it is told the story of Olopun, a … Continue reading
“Dialogue With Death” – A Book Review
Arthur Koestler was one of the writers that made the 1920s and 1930s and into the 1940s such a remarkable time in Europe. Hemingway, Camus, Ezra Pound, Fitzgerald. The list goes on. Many of them also cut their teeth as … Continue reading
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