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Category: Essay

How Columbus’s Winter in Iceland Helped Him Get to America

It is a well-known oral tradition around the Olafsvik-Rif-Hellissandur maritime region that Columbus visited Iceland and stayed at the farm at Ingjaldsholl during the winter of 1477 to 1478, likely arriving sometime in the early autumn and leaving in late spring.

Kirk Johnson March 22, 2022

Epicureanism and the Missing Soul of Modernity

This world, as it figures in Lucretius’ magnum opus, is of Epicurean make. It is a world denuded of divine influence, reduced to a drab and tranquil steadiness. Its substantial uniformity also foreshadows, to an uncanny degree, the empirical emptiness of modernity.

Michael W. Weyns March 22, 2022

Gigantomachy—On Slaying Giants and Surviving Ghosts

Tradition tells us that giants are born from fallen angels joining themselves to willing humans, and that even after these are slain, their specters may yet demand sacrifice. We are still facing giants today, as well as the ghosts they leave behind, and may learn something from those ancient tales.

Carlos Perona Calvete March 20, 2022

Faith and Patriotism in a Besieged Kyiv

Animated by faith and patriotism and buoyed by an unkillable sense of humor, Ukrainians are thus far shocking the world by their steadfastness in the face of Russian aggression.

Jonathon Van Maren March 17, 2022

Notes on the War

As I am writing these words, I can hear a battle raging on the other side of the Kyiv Sea. The worst thing about living close to the front line is not knowing where the next missile will land, but we are determined to carry on with our lives for as long as possible.

Daria Fedotova March 17, 2022

The Return of a Different Double Eagle

The same experience with Soviet hegemony that has rendered Central European states immune, at some level, to the kind of decadence Western leadership favors, also led them to suspect Russia’s intentions.

Charles A. Coulombe March 16, 2022

Democracy-Building: A Moral Commodity

Conservatives, of course, are aware of the urgent need to reduce the bureaucratic machine to a minimum. But in the quest to devolve governance to the local level, we must not forget the existential dignity of the penniless castaways generated by the oligarchic system.

José Luís Andrade March 15, 2022

Leadership in a World of Uncertainty

Consider what Europe will look like if Russia wins, or loses, the war in Ukraine. Obtaining reliable information, in this case, is nearly impossible. To navigate these uncertain times, the best guidance may be found in the old-school academic discipline of political economy.

Sven R. Larson March 14, 2022

An Apologia for Emotion

By understanding our emotions as a more primary part of ourselves, we can begin to respond to them as meaningful, and also as something we need not be dominated by. At the same time, we have a chance at last to put an end to the stupidity that has been unleashed by ideologies that function on an emotional level but masquerade as rational.

George Carter March 14, 2022

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