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By Beatrice Sturmdrang INTRODUCTION: When considering any number of potentially viable ways to mitigate, mollify, or lessen the harmful effects of anthropogenic climate change, one is immediately stuck by the obviousness of several possibilities. Some of them are already more or less being adopted, to varying degrees of consistency and efficacy. The transition to electric
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Ismail Kadare’s novel, the Siege, is a plaintive, raw work of subdued historical realism. Starting with a slow burn at first, the reader is able to remain grounded to the historical setting by Kadare’s inclusion of plentiful detail of the day-to-day minutiae of maintaining a siege. Outside of the clear historical framework that the narrative
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In the coming months, I will be publishing a series of pieces on what I perceive to be decades of acute cultural decline across nearly all mediums and forms. This first article tries to look at the relationship between art and commercialism, using film as an analytical lens. The series is informally called, the Jeremiad.
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With The Birth of the Hospital In the Byzantine Empire, Dr. Timothy Miller has produced a work of assiduous scholarship. Miller provides a thorough, comprehensive account of the birth of the hospital in the East Roman Empire of the 4th century, its evolution through the 13th century, and its decline and ultimate destruction at the
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The Byzantine Empire, when Constantinople fell to the marauding Ottomans under Mehmet II, had already been reduced to a mere shadow of its former splendor. After centuries of decline following the death of Emperor Andronikos I, and tensions with the West leading to Byzantium’s diplomatic isolation from the rest of Christendom, the Empire was in
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Stephen Kotkin is not sympathetic to the promises of socialism, a fact that is made abundantly clear throughout the 220 pages of Armageddon Averted, a historical autopsy of the decline and fall of the U.S.S.R. However, he is surpiringly even-handed and measured in his treatment of the principle actors in the collossal drama that unfolded
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Isabel De Madariaga’s Catherine the Great: A Short History provides the reader with an account of the crucial narrative contours of the rise and reign of Empress Catherine II of Russia. The work is a survey of a period of Russian history that is critically important yet largely overlooked. While not a detailed study or examination, De Madariaga’s
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by Tommie Worrall Less than one month remains until the 2024 primary election and the progressive political scene in this country is, to put it mildly, an utter disgrace. Would-be Marxists are being swayed by the vague and hollow promises for reform made by the status quo duo of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, while
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