• Solzhenitsyn’s address to Harvard

    A world split apart

  • The suppressed history

    If I were a young man and again had unlimited energy and time (for so it seems to the young, and it isn’t all that untrue, relatively speaking), I think one of my projects would be to write what might be called the suppressed history of the west. In such a history I would incorporate…

  • Welcome to the (evolving) Situation

    A Michael Ventura column on where we are and where we’re going

  • the ending of an age

    Does this begin to sound familiar? This, from The Age of Arthur: a History of the British Isles from 350 to 650, by John Morris. [As the Roman occupation of Briton ended] “Old men mourned; but younger men were capable of looking to the future with confidence, even welcoming escape from a dead past. One…

  • The power of co-operation

    “It’s amazing to think that this object has been sitting in the archives for decades and that amateur volunteers can help by spotting things like this online.”

  • Different ages

    Want to know why the coming age will be different from the one that is dying around us? It is because no person and no civilization is large enough to encompass everything; for every truth we accept there is an equally important truth that we reject, and so some things that are true must seem…

  • Merton on ambition

    Thomas Merton was an extraordinary man, a Protestant who became a Catholic, a secular hedonist who became a monk, an ambitious writer who cloistered himself away from the world. His autobiography, The Seven Story Mountain, though heavily censored by the religious authorities he had subordinated himself to, remains a fascinating window into another man’s soul.…

  • Mumford on ourselves and the world

    I was reading Mumford back in 1974 while ostensibly engaged in running in the Democratic congressional primary. What a misfit between my inner and outer lives! Yet what I was reading did apply, it’s just that I couldn’t figure out how to apply it. I knew more than I could express, and I could express…

  • Solzhenitsyn’s message

    It can’t be put any plainer than this.

  • Okay, we’re pretty much functioning now

    If you’ve been following our progress here, you know that we have been working step by step. First we moved the blog to this site, then came the process of constructing what we call the HologramBooks store. Most of that work has been behind the scenes, of course, a combination of technical stuff (at which…