Vol. II · No. 207
Established 2025

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Sunday, July 26, 2026
168 writers in the library
Lessons and narratives from the past
Department

History.

Lessons and narratives from the past.

Lately on the shelf

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After Prophecy

Preserving Value and Order Under Divine Concealment, a Religious Phenomenology of Modern Life and Politics

Interpreting the Odyssey

(Spoiler Warning)

East meets West

The first encounter between Japan and Europeans

The Lachrymose Self-Conception of Liberal Society

Homicidal Empathy and the Dreams of Innocence

Saudi Arabia’s Challenge to the Abraham Accords

A New Regional Vision Without Israel

The Will to Manage

Rahm Emanuel Tries to Save a Coalition That No Longer Exists

The Great Moral Accounting Fraud

On the Moral Credit Economy of the Post-Christian World

The Black Death is far older than we thought (again)

New findings have changed the story once again

Narratives of Redemption

Lincoln, Wagner, and the Fate of Redemption after God

The Invention of Civilizational Islam

Ismail al-Faruqi and the Post-Christian Origins of Islamism

Photographs of Old China II

The Doomed Republic

Still More Flying Notes From Egypt

The Confessions of a Very Communicative Man

Western Civilization and Its Despisers

Kultur, the German Counter-Tradition, and the Counter-Canon

CHINA: ETERNAL RECURRENCE

Understanding China: Part III

CHINA: THE THREE MINDS

Understanding China: Part II

Negative Covenant

Objections to the Metacritique of Palestine

Broken Mirror

On Jewish Self-Presentation and Its Failures

CHINA: BIRTH OF THE DRAGON

Understanding China: Part I

A Metacritique of Palestine

On the Political Economy of a Word-Symbol

Written in the stars

A Short History of Mesopotamian Astrology

Photographs of Old China

Twilight of the Qing Dynasty

Western Civilization And Its Defense

Civilization, Historicism, and the Liberal Invention of Tradition

Where should we map next?

Choose our next civilisation to explore

The War On the Abraham Accords

How a Coordinated International Campaign is Targeting the UAE

THE COMING TECTONIC COMPETITION

How tectonics will shape the geopolitics of the next century

Everything Has Changed

The World and Times of Naguib Mahfouz 3

THE TECTONIC ORIGINS OF CIVILISATION

How tectonics creates different types of landscape, which in turn create different types of civilisation

ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS EMERGED ON TECTONIC PLATE FAULTLINES

Cartographia

Why Is There No Redemption in the Arabic Novel?

On Third-Worldist Literature, Mimetic Economy of Despair, and the Singularity of the Person

THE STEPPE HAS ALWAYS SHAPED HOW HUMANS MAKE WAR

A brief history of the steppe's influence on military technology, from the chariot to the drone