Cross-posted to Public Orthodoxy : The nomination of Gina Haspel to the position of CIA director is deeply troubling to me, should be dee...

Aleksandr Pushkin Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, the greatest Russian poet in history bar none (and whom I know in the original Russian, ...

Saint Metrophanes the First Patriarch of Constantinople During the early 200s, Dometius , the son of a Roman patrician named Dalmatius, co...

Lin Zexu 林則徐 It’s not any kind of particular secret that Commissioner Lin Zexu 林則徐 is a hero of mine. The Hokkien gentleman-official of...

In one of my previous posts I alluded to a certain ‘Jennifer complex’ I have. It’s a little difficult to describe, and even more difficul...

Salâma Mûsâ As with Dr al-Pachachi’s Living to Some Purpose , and rather in parallel with it, I am fascinated by these memoirs, these auto...

Orestes Brownson Jack Quirk – the editor of Christian Democracy blog at Patheos, who has graciously run a handful of my articles there wh...