The Republic was dead long before Augustus rose to power. This essay pushes back against modern comparisons, showing how Augustus buried a broken system and built something that endured for centuries.

The beginning of the end of the Roman Republic started with the best of intentions. A fiery young aristocrat named Tiberius Gracchus set out to reform a corrupt system dominated by the wealthy. During one turbulent year as tribune, he challenged the Senate’s authority, bent the rules, and paid with his life. What followed was nearly a century of escalating violence that tore the Republic apart.

Huxley’s Brave New World warned of a dystopia where comfort and distraction erase depth, struggle, and meaning, echoing our world today.

D.H. Lawrence's thoughts (and mine) on Revelation and the Apocalyptic mindset and how those remain with us today.

A personal update on the blog

A poem by Paul Wilke

A poem by Paul D. Wilke

For Mencken, the common man was more Homer Simpson or Peter Griffith than anything resembling the idea of a thoughtful and engaged citizen.

A look at Allan Savory's Holistic Planned Grazing. Can it really solve climate change as he claimed in his TED Talk? Nope. Here's why.

A poem by Paul Wilke