Our present period,at least in the Western world, is in difficulties about its heroes. Heroism, understood as courage in action, we can still recognize and applaud; but the individual hero, defined as the personification of what the age tends to be, has become a wraith. Heroes will not thrive in … Continue reading →

Hannah Arendt was certainly not the first person to mediate on the problem and ramifications of thoughtless evil. As opposed to the cunning, conscious and coherent variety. Her reflections of course, were not entirely understood, or else appropriated to serve diverse ends that Arendt could not have foreseen, a sort of … Continue reading →

Death of Henry VIII… Age had dug deep trenches upon a face once as pink and delicate as a young bride’s; the soft beard of red and gold had given way to coarse white; the sturdy muscular belly was now a sagging deformity of fifty-four inches; and youth,s proud livery … Continue reading →