America’s Coming Century of Humiliation… begins
A tragic sense of history does not limit the depth of the fall of the mighty…
The plague year
One year ago posted the post below on the likely effects of the coronavirus on our…
culture / history / literature
Cultural collapse: Delhi 1857
Today, I am reposting this response to William Dalrymple’s magnificent The Last Mughal: the Fall of…
America’s Hispanic Past and its Hispanic Future Proves it is not Exceptional
“even well-educated, amiable, open-minded people in the United States do not realize that their country has…
culture / history / literature
The Coming Renaissance of the Second Culture
Terrible events occur in history that devastate the cities that our minds build. The Barbarians sack…
The Time of Troubles to come in America
“There always is this fallacious belief: ‘It would not be thesame here; here such things are…
Waiting for the crisis to unveil
Events threaten to overwhelm my mind. The world stands on the brink of a crisis, and…
America’s Coming Century of Humiliation
Could it be that the current unrest in America and the disintegration of its political, social…
What on earth is going on? Reflections on the current unrest
In today’s world the falcon cannot hear the falconer. In the widening gyre of overlapping world…
A very modern Charge of the Light Brigade
The Crimean War of 1853 to 1856 is now a forgotten and neglected conflict of the…