From the Heights

Upon reading Spengler's magnum opus The Decline of the West for the third time (in three days this time, because I have no life), and f...

As Lars von Trier is one of my favourite directors, and as he covers themes closest to my heart and to my sphere of knowledge, it surprises ...

PROLOGUE The hard, malevolent rain slammed into the river like so many stones freed from their mountainous moorings. Illuminated only b...

Where the Hellenic weltanschauung found its greatness and its vitality in the dynamic of man vs. gods, the finality of fate, and the triumph...