In 1802, Louis Delgrès led a doomed revolt in Guadeloupe against Napoleon’s bid to restore slavery, choosing death over chains and defiance over surrender.

The Haitian Revolution’s final two years were a spiral of atrocity, betrayal, and disease that destroyed Napoleon’s army and gave birth to the first independent nation founded by former slaves.

Byung-Chul Han sees Anomalisa as a dystopia of sameness. I argue it’s really about depression—and why choosing embodied life still matters.

A poem by Paul Wilke

A reflection on poetry, imagination, and the cultural cost of living online.

A poem by Paul Wilke

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.