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talesoftimesforgotten.com | ||
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historyforatheists.com
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| | | | | If there is a story that forms the heart of New Atheist bad history, it's the tale of the Great Library of Alexandria and its destruction by a Christian mob. It's the central moral fable of the Draper-White Thesis, where wise and rational Greeks and Romans store up all the wisdom of the pre-Christian ancient world in a single library, treasuring science and reason and bringing western civilisation to the brink of a technological and industrial revolution. But then a... Read More Read More | |
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theimaginativeconservative.org
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| | | | | By and large the educated elites in the Western world today are without religious belief and often animated by a "culture of repudiation," keen to banish old ideas of the sacred from public life and to remake the institutions and structures of civil society so as to reflect their own liberated lifestyle. (essay by Sir Roger Scruton) | |
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martinifisher.com
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| | | | | Ancient Greek and Roman world gave us many individuals who were celebrities in their day and whose careers provide us with what we recognize today as different aspects of the modern celebrity culture such as endorsements, groupies and 15 minutes of fame - albeit without the terminology. The price of fame in the ancient world... | |
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dissidentvoice.org
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| | | On May 31st, Politico headlined "Biden secretly gave Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia with US weapons: It's a major reversal that will help Ukraine to better defend its second-largest city." It reported: The Biden administration has quietly given Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia - solely near the area of Kharkiv - using U.S.-provided | ||