Cedant Arma Togae

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Is the Pen mightier than the Sword? We all must decide for ourselves. I know I did. Perhaps we need both. The French Ancien Regime believed that. They retained both the noblesse d'épée as well as the noblesse de lettres, de robe.

Who can save Ukraine?

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They say that the only people who see the end of the war are the dead. I wonder if that is the only certainty in this solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short Life of ours.

Putin’s Gambit – How the Superpowers are gambling World Peace away – Chapter III: The Players

World peace is at stake. America and Russia are willing to destroy the world for the sake of world domination. And we the denizens of the only inhabited world sit idly by while the whole house if about to crumble. But before acting we must understand what is going on.

Putin’s Gambit – How the Superpowers are gambling World Peace away – Chapter I: The Shadow of War

World peace is unravelling at an unprecedented pace. War devastates Ukraine brought about by superpowers unwilling to understand the stakes. Our lives hang in the balance while world leaders continue their bellicose rhetoric. People die in a power struggle that threatens to undo our civilization.

Winston Churchill and The Denial of Death

Winston Churchill was the greatest English man who ever lived. Let me explain. "Churchill mobilized the English language and sent it into battle," as Lord Viscount Halifax noted after his famous June 4, 1940 speech in the Commons. Mr. Churchill achieved that which was thought impossible by his enemies, his friends, and those fence-sitters who … Continue reading Winston Churchill and The Denial of Death