Dispatch: A Question of Loyalty A return to the rough-and-tumble 1790s “I have, for sometime past, viewed the political concerns of the United States with an anxious, and painful eye. They appear to me, to be moving by hasty strides to some awful crisis; but in what they will result—that Being, who sees, foresees,
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Dispatch: Lamp of Experience I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past “I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.” —Patrick Henry Lamp of
Hope and Tragedy in the Wilderness Prologue to Greatness Battle of the Monongahela During the French and Indian War, a British expeditionary force under the command of General Edward Braddock was en route to capture Fort Duquesne near present-day Pittsburgh but clashed with a mixed detachment of French irregulars and Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi warriors along
Authoring Caesar: Part Two The imposition of mob rule, the ultimate and end result of democracy, damages individual autonomy. It threatens and often eliminates your natural rights: life, limb, and property. We are at whatever mercy the mob grants us, if any. Every time a legislative body meets, all people are on the butcher’
THE DOOMED HISTORY OF BRITISH REVOLUTION Britons, and the English in particular – are not a revolutionary bunch, it’s not in our nature. Whenever the topic comes up, this vague point seems to be raised. It’s something in our culture, or simply in the water perhaps. We just get on with it and make things
Dharma and Adharma “Do the needful.”
Interregnum There is a space of time that between two definitive points, called the indefinite. It is the difference between “the” and “a/an”. A nation could be any nation, while the nation is an identifiable entity. No one cares about a king, a president, a Prime Minister, a pope, or
Through The Upper Country Pierre d’Iberville And The Hudson Bay Expedition Editors Note: Canada, it’s early history and it’s people, was shaped by the twofold struggles between it’s people and the hostile environment, and between it’s peoples for dominance. The story of Pierre d’Iberville is a great window
Dr. John Rae Fur Trader, Explorer, & Canadian The Canadian psyche is deeply informed by a primal awareness of the harsh land in which we live. As an early exploration of this, Today, The Red Ensign presents the story of Dr. John Rae, a Scottish-Canadian Explorer & business man who thrived in the vast Canadian
Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal Pioneer, Aristocrat, Canadian free, text The Red Ensign is a publication dedicated to Anglo-Canadian people, their history, and to all that they could be again. For both of these purposes we frequently publish pieces reviewing the lives of the great men of Canada’s history, highlighting the elements of their
CYCLICAL HISTORY – A BRIEF INTRO TO GLUBB, TAINTER, AND TURCHIN Among the thinkers who work within the broad school of cyclical history, many fall into one of two major camps: those who intuit or infer patterns in existing histories or narratives, and those who model the ebbing and flowing from a statistical viewpoint. The latter can more robustly verify the
Authoring Caesar: Part Four “Where there’s a will, there’s a way:” all can be overcome through the power of will; but one must first possess it. It’s been a long period of growth towards higher Civilization in the West. We have been seated high for so long that the notion of
Authoring Caesar: Part Three The greatest failure of Democracy is in empowering the incapable and immoral. This brings the wretches into an unfair conflict with moral and just people over power. Armed with this evil, the immoral wretches slash at righteous good, before good knows what hit it. Democracy breeds naïveté towards the human
Authoring Caesar: Part One Western man stands on a precipice before a path ridden with obstacles; behind us lay our progenitors: “old”, “obsolete”, and “incapable”. Whiffs of their essence lay within us, hopefully enough to make a difference. Ahead lies our future, our progeny, and all we will, our canvas. We cannot correct the
Book Review: “The Populist Delusion” by Neema Parvini “Power permits no rival.”
A PASSING THOUGHT ON SPENGLER’S CYCLE The Spenglerian cycle, at least in part, has been accepted as the God-given truth by most on the side of it. I argue elsewhere that this is due to Spengler being a prophet and not a philosopher. Yet even prophets have trouble predicting the entire future, and every theory has
TYRANT ON THE CORRIENTES Dr. Francia is a name little-known among those of our community. A tragedy considering he fulfilled Carlyle’s vision of a Great Man and Bronze Age Pervert’s (BAP) vision of a Man of Power. Carlyle has spoken of Dr. Francia at length in an essay of the same name