They are one of the greatest enemies Rome ever faced, and are still remembered today for their shocking child sacrifices. But how much do you know about Carthage and the Carthaginian people? Tune in and learn more!

You're probably familiar with the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. But how much history lies behind those legends? Tune in and discover how a few small battles can become one of Europe's defining myth cycles.

According to the Bible, Abraham's nephew Lot moved to Sodom and was later captured by raiders led by four kings. How much of this story is true? Tune in and find out!

A recent article in the Skeptical Inquirer raised questions about a dig on the purported site of Sodom. If you want to hear my thoughts on some of those issues, keep watching -- and don't forget to like and subscribe!

The Greek alphabet (and, by extension, the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, were inspired by the Phoenician abjad. But in what other ways did the Phoenicians influence classical Greek culture?

She's the face that launched a thousand ships, the beautiful woman who started one of the ancient world's ugliest wars. But how much fact lies behind this famous legend? Tune in and find out!

You've probably heard the story of David & Goliath. But how much do you really know about Goliath and the Philistines?

Despite tribulations, famines and wars the tales of King Arthur have survived and remain a potent portrait of the European oversoul. This episode examines the deep foundations upon which Camelot was built and points the way towards our own quest for the Grail.

Once there was a place called Camelot. Once there was a place called America. Both those places belong to the past now. Yet in Camelot's foundation there still can be found the seeds of renewal. In those stones there lies a sword which will save us and a grail which will renew our poisoned land.

The term "Cultural Marxism" is often bandied about as the Right's version of "Fascism" -- a slur that means little save "I don't like it." This episode compares and contrasts three of the largest influences on our current culture war -- Antonio Gramsci, Karl Popper and the Frankfurt School.

In 1917 Tsar Nicholas II abdicated: a few months later the Romanovs were dead and Russia's Christians faced a campaign of persecution that would last for over seven decades and claim millions of lives. Today the Church is more powerful within the former Iron Curtain than it has been in centuries. Why did the Communists launch a war against God -- and why did they lose?

After dethroning their King, the French revolutionaries set their sights on God. Hundreds of clergy and thousands of innocent believers perished during a "dechristianization" program intended to create a secular France. That program remains in progress today. What can we learn from how it triumphed in France -- and how France defeated it?

Tom Kawczynski's "Free Atlantic Radio" program was shut down before I could post this podcast. This one talks about Chabad, a shadowy religious group with friends in the highest places at both the White House and the Kremlin.

It's a crazy story: a man was born of a Virgin and rose from the dead. Yet that crazy story has been told and retold for over 2,000 years. And is the absurdity of Christ greater than the absurdity of our world and our human condition?

Across times and cultures we find the idea of an afterlife where the just are rewarded after hard trials. Today we mock those ideas as "pie in the sky." But do those stories passed down through centuries point to a shared delusion -- or to a reality more glorious than we can imagine?

Hellfire. Damnation. Eternal separation from God. These are scary topics which are today generally treated as fairy tales good only for frightening children and credulous rubes. But what if there is a great and terrible Truth behind those unsettling legends?

According to most secular Americans religious morality is anti-sex, anti-pleasure and anti-fun. C.S. Lewis's views were considerably more nuanced. Our modern culture has built its towers on sand and now they are crumbling. Can we rebuild something better on the bedrock Lewis has laid bare for us?

There are many Christian denominations; they have serious differences on important points of doctrine and are in some cases openly hostile to each other. But what common ground do they share? In his 1952 book *Mere Christianity* C.S. Lewis sought to discover a "mere Christianity" which was the true heart of the Faith. Can his wisdom inspire us to put aside our differences and work together to protect the Good and conquer Evil?

Every day the edifice of the American Empire crumbles a little more. Soon the Tower will fall. Can a document written by Pope John XXIII in 1963 help us build something better out of the wreckage?

In a world where “rebel” and “heretic” are terms of endearment, what use can there be in stale old dogmas and outworn creeds? G.K. Chesterson’s *Orthodoxy* offered a defense of Christianity’s continuing relevance amidst the science, progress and prosperity of Victorian England. Can the timeless truths he offered then help us find a way to clean up the 21st century’s post-Christian mess?

G.K. Chesterton, *Orthodoxy* (1908)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16769/16769-h/16769-h.htm

Welcome to the seventh episode of Notes From The End of Time: The Quotients of Intelligence

Today children around the world are ranked and measured by standardized intelligence tests: their data is weighed, sifted and measured by innumerable algorithms and parceled out into neat charts and reports. Yet over and over the computers keep repeating blasphemy: some groups score lower than others? How do we address this problem? How do we solve this problem? And what preconceptions and misconceptions lead us to conclude this is a problem?

Kenaz Filan, “The Quotients of Intelligence”
https://europaschildren.com/2020/08/22/the-quotients-of-intelligence/

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As our government teeters and our populace becomes increasingly polarized, many fear war is on the horizon. Some of us have realized it is already here. How can we wage a just war? How can we work for a just peace? And how can we fight monsters without becoming monsters ourselves?

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (Prima Secundae Partis)
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2.htm

Kenaz Filan, "Toward the Unknown Shore"
https://europaschildren.com/2020/08/09/toward-the-unknown-shore/

"What We Know of the Ring"
https://europaschildren.com/2020/08/10/what-we-know-of-the-ring/

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Just War Theory”
https://iep.utm.edu/justwar/

Eric Patterson, "Just War Theory and Terrorism" in Providence Magazine (Summer 2016)
https://providencemag.com/2016/11/just-war-theory-terrorism/

"St. Joan of Arc" at Catholic Online
http://catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=295

Gene Wolfe, "The Best Introduction to the Mountains"
http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20040113063643/http%3A//home.clara.net/andywrobertson/wolfemountains.html

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H.P. Lovecraft''s writings have become famous for their "cosmic horror." He showed us our place in the Universe: dust-specks living atop a bigger dust-speck for what barely counts as an Elder God's eye-blink. But were the vast empty demon-haunted vistas he created fiction -- or was he drawing from life?

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In September 1931 C.S. Lewis accepted Christ after a lengthy conversation with his friend and fellow Oxford don J.R.R. Tolkien. Both would go on to become two of the greatest Fantasy writers of the 20th century. Today their work is seen by many as quaint, outmoded, even reactionary. But can their halting voyage toward Truth help us set our course in a world drugged on lies?

Kenaz Filan, "The Golden Sceptre and the Iron Crown"
https://europaschildren.com/2020/07/31/the-golden-sceptre-and-the-iron-crown/

Mykal Gilmore, "George R.R. Martin: The Rolling Stone Interview"
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/george-r-r-martin-the-rolling-stone-interview-242487/

C.S. Lewis, *That Hideous Strength*
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/lewiscs-thathideousstrength/lewiscs-thathideousstrength-00-h.html

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Today many scientists are wondering if we are living inside a computer simulation: Elon Musk famously claimed that the odds we are living in "base reality" are a billion to one. But what does it mean to live in a simulation -- and where do we find that base reality?

(Note: I know, I know: Laurence Fishburne played Morpheus, not Samuel L. Jackson. My bad).

References:

Nick Bostrom, "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?"
https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

G.K. Chesterton, *Heresies*
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/470/470-h/470-h.htm

Kenaz Filan, "Infinity in the Palm of your Hand"
https://europaschildren.com/2020/07/25/infinity-in-the-palm-of-your-hand/

Martin Heidegger, "Only a God Can Save Us"
http://www.ditext.com/heidegger/interview.html

Martin Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology"
https://simondon.ocular-witness.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/question_concerning_technology.pdf

Joshua Rothman, "What are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation?"
New Yorker, June 9, 2016
https://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/what-are-the-odds-we-are-living-in-a-computer-simulation

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