conquests

The West’s Cultural Continuity: Aristotle at Mont Saint-Michel

 Sylvain Gouguenheim’s Aristote au Mont Saint-Michel: Les racines grecques de l’Europe Chrétienne reviewed by Thomas F. Bertonneau Long before the late Eduard Said invented “Orientalism” to...

On Human Sacrifice and Political Correctness

This text is somewhat related to one of my older essays, about the history of cacao and chocolate. When I was younger, I was once told that regularly practiced cannibalism didn't exist in any society...

Chicken, Fennel & Lemon Fettuccine

Pasta has been around for centuries and it's been a romantic myth that Marco Polo brought pasta back from China (it was already there in Polo's time). Marco Polo returned in 1295 after twenty years...

Top 50 Sexpert Blogs

Whether you're a seasoned veteran of sexual conquests, a newbie looking to explore your sexuality, the internet is full of experts and advice site. Here are a few blogs you can check out for...

Just Like old Times

Well, it looks as if Russia has dusted off some of the old hacks from TASS, and put them to work explaining the situation in Georgia.RUSSIANS were told over breakfast yesterday what really happened...

France: Can a Wounded Nation Heal Itself?

Here is a quote by Nicolas Sarkozy from 2006, before he became French President: [S]ecurity is the responsibility of the State, I am against militias, I am against the private ownership of firearms,...

[Emmy the Great]

"All of the stupid things you've done, I know and I'm telling everyone 'cause you're not my best friend anymore."Alexander the Great, Charles the Great - The Greats of history have come to be known...

Refuting God's Crucible

This text is written in response to God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis, an American historian and two-time winner of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. In...

The Early Word: New Non-Fiction For the Week of June 9, 2008

Doris Day, Kathryn Harrison, Pete Sampras, Grandmaster Flash, Karl Rove, Douglas J. Preston, Oscar de la Hoya, Glenn Gould, Meredith Norton, and Peter M. Senge. Bios and downward spirals... Fame,...

Europe’s Fate and Turkey’s Progress

The Swiss journalist Alain Jean-Mairet responds to an article by Daniel Pipes entitled “Europe or Eurabia.” Pipes lists three possible outcomes to the current crisis in which millions of Muslims are...