This is the fourth and final article in this particular Dante series. We remember that we read Dante ...

In our last article, we saw how the issue of human free will played out in Dante’s Hell. ...

In Part 1 of this article, we spoke of the importance of young minds being exposed to great ...

Recently, a top American academic at a highly prestigious American university dropped me a line and said, “The ...

In Part 1, we investigated how progress is a false ideology intimately connected to a misuse of language ...

We get so used to some paradigms that we forget to ever question them. Perhaps the one I ...

Metaphor is a primary way through which we understand the world; we cannot really know what anything really ...

In my previous article on King Midas, we found that the Midas Touch proved to be a curse—the ...

Every so often something happens in human history that has massive repercussions, implications and effects out of all ...

From the beginning of human time, all peoples have known that there is a battle going on, and ...

As we know, there are seven deadly sins: anger, pride, envy, avarice, gluttony, lust, and sloth. But since ...

The title song for the 1960s film “Alfie,” starring Michael Caine, had the opening line: "What's it all ...

What are we going to say or think once this lockdown is over and this pandemic is subdued? ...

Oedipus is one of the greatest heroes of Greek mythology—immortalized in what is generally considered the greatest of ...

Does anyone now remember what was highly significant in England, circa 1592–94? Or how about 1603–04? No? What ...

When we look at the world today, we see a world of trouble, turmoil, and an increasing sense ...

One of the greatest stories in Greek mythology is that of the Judgment of Paris. It is in a ...

In our increasingly materially focused world, a world in which image is king over content, it is worth ...

It was King Solomon who wrote that there was nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9) and that all ...

We are fresh from Christmas, and if we have been listening to the regular type of services in ...

The Bhagavad Gita (or Gita) contains much profound wisdom. However, the key event leading to the victory of ...

William Blake, in his poem "Auguries of Innocence," wrote: Some are born to sweet delight And some are ...

In June, I had the pleasure of visiting New York and, courtesy of The Society of Classical Poets, ...

Perhaps no myth—if myth it be—is more relevant today than the myth of the Great Flood that nearly ...

In my last article for The Epoch Times, “What’s Wrong With the World,” I touched on the fact ...

In 1910, G.K. Chesterton’s book “What’s Wrong With the World” was published, and the title did not include ...

Ever since the Enlightenment of the 18th century, it has become increasingly difficult to talk of myths and ...