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In part two of the Ius Publicum Europeaum Series, I am once again joined by our new political theory cohost, Merctores to discuss the fruits of Hugo Grotius’s labors that gave life to European public law and the rise of the nation state: the Peace of Westphalia. It is in this peace that the European consensus was cemented for 300 years, with empires being outsourced to possession

The Son of God and Son of man has not only given humanity the opportunity for salvation of the soul, but He has called upon us in the material to act in accordance with our prayers on the road to Salvation. God saw it necessary to make material our Salvation by becoming flesh, and it is in a material world where the fruits of our Faith are visible through our demeanor reflecting th

For the first time on Blood & Rain, we have a co-host, a member of the Anti-Fragile Athletes and aspiring professor from the Netherlands, Adam who will go by the moniker, “Mercatores.” After two years of fascination with political theory, Mercatores will be my bi-weekly partner in crime on Blood & Rain when discussing various topics of political theory we both find a fa

The “Zillennials”and an intense Generation Z contingent displays the opposite behavior and sentiments of the Millennial and Generation Z majority. Within the context of America and Europe’s fracturing hold that has lasted since Nuremberg, the vacuum to come will likely be filled by the aforementioned faction with the backing of their fringe Generation X counterparts. The ques

The DR’s resident geopolitical analyst, The Prudentialist joins me to discuss how he got into geopolitics, his view on the current American situation both domestically and internationally, his conversion to Orthodox Christianity, his views on the necessary steps for Orthodox expansion in America, and his recent article on “re-enchantment” of the West.

In the midst of Orthodox Lent, I’m joined by the Instagram “DR Sphere” favorite, Principality of Spirit to discuss the importance of Orthodox laymen studying political theory and Orthodox political theory.

Knut Hamsun is a forgotten writer whose importance is second only to Shakespeare when discussing the world of fiction. This is the first of many episodes on the magnificent writer of Norway who pioneered stream of consciousness literature and inspired Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Sartre, as I look to become an amateur scholar on the man himself and his illustrious work.

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Rest In Peace Cormac McCarthyRest In Peace John SteinbeckRest In Peace Ernest HemingwayThe American canon has its authors who are obvious, stable additions to its pantheon.Fitzgerald.Twain.Poe.Faulkner.Steinbeck.But then there are those who forge their own path who use America as the occasional backdrop, giving life to a new form of writing that can't be integrated into its canon d

Fitzgerald dethroned Mark Twain as America’s most important writer, for he wrote of the affliction that struck America. The same affliction of a malicious sentient spirit that plagued The British and German empires all the same. It’s intoxicating.It’s alluring. It was personified in Gatsby. The illusion of a higher ideal than God as proposed by Nietzsche under the influence o