I really don’t know what it is about the northern Rhineland, but for some reason the greatest power metal bands seem to come either from ...

Bo Xilai showing his ‘red spirit’ Bo Xilai’s loss of his post in Chongqing two weeks ago is an event to be sorely lamented, particularly fo...

Left to right: Immanuel Wallerstein, Gu Yanwu 顧炎武 and Tang Zhen 唐甄 World-systems theory, like most revisions of Marxism away from its Mani...

A happy Iranian New Year 1391, Nauryz and vernal equinox to all; particularly to my Iranian, Kazakhstani and Kyrgyzstani friends! Today, ...

A bit of local flavour for a change of pace; I use that term somewhat loosely, given that, being Bostonian, Revocation are to be conside...

I recently finished David Lindsay’s new book, Confessions of an Old Labour High Tory . It is an insightful and incisive read on modern Brit...

Daniel Nichols over at Caelum et Terra has the following thought : The thoughts of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran, were ...