Can the Western civilisation be secular? Can religion and God be replaced by manmade alternatives like humanism and socialism? This essay traces the recent polls on this matter and looks …

Orwell noted in 1944 that English intellectuals rejected Hitler at the cost of accepting Stalin. Hitler remains a symbol of evil and justly so. Stalin however, as a figure of …

How does the CCP treat its citizens and the neighbouring areas? Is the "economic miracle" really a miracle? These are some of the questions that this essay will seek to …

"[…] when two lines of martial law troops drove their tanks from either side into the square, they were going well over 60 miles an hour. Completely insane. At the …

The context in which he Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 must be viewed: China has over 100 years of history of pro-freedom protests…

Today I am launching a new page of this website, part of the Project 1989. As the title of this blog suggests, the page is dedicated to the events that …

The interesting birth of Japanese butoh dance, its link to Yukio Mishima's work and the important role of tradition in maintaining alive our unique identity in order to create the …

"Grimes might have made an innocent joke that attracted the attention of newspapers and the social media crowds, but the prank was an echo of something much deeper among some …

Nostalgia, or the aching to return home. This article explores this concept in-depth, starting with Tarkovsky's masterpiece, "Nostalghia"…

The quality par excellence of the last man is equality: all of the last men are equal in their miserable mediocrity and cowardness…

This is the best non-satirical political satire you’ll ever read: the story of Joseph Stalin the university professor, not the communist dictator…

Elisabeta Rizea was tortured and put in prison by the communists for her political views. “They hanged me by my hair from a hook in the ceiling and pushed the …

Roger Scruton FBA FRSL (1944-2020) was a writer and philosopher who published more than forty books in philosophy, aesthetics, and politics…

“Wild and free”, “wild nature”, “into the wild”, “wild spirit”, “wild animal”, wilderness […] a world of overwhelming beauty that deeply speaks to each one of us…

It may not seem like much but naming your child with a name that has a story that inspires, a name which fits their energy, words that carry history…

As long as democracy functions, we should look to preserve and use all the mechanisms it offers to change those in position of power…

Loneliness is wide spread in the modern world, affecting men and women of all ages. Despite having a lot more than any other civilisation, we have a lot less of …

"Beauty helps us transcend the human condition, opening the doors of an unlimited and universal world of here and now"…

Here are my five short lessons I took from 2020. I hope 2021 will be a better year for all of us.

Conspiracies are not new phenomena – they have existed for centuries and touch on every aspect of society, from sciences to religion…