Matt Ehret: History as a Battle for the Mind: Edgar Poe as a Cultural Warrior

History as a Battle for the Mind: Edgar Poe as a Cultural Warrior While he is most known as a “master of the macabre” due to the dark and disturbing topics that emerge in many of his works, the fact is that Poe is operating on a higher level of artistic composition than most realize …

Matt Ehret: Why Canada Failed the ‘Ben Franklin Challenge’ in 1776

Why Canada Failed the ‘Ben Franklin Challenge’ in 1776 It may be a bit of a bitter pill to swallow for some, but as I outlined in my Missed Chance of 1867, and the True Story of the Alaska Purchase, the original founding of Canada on July 1st, 1867 was designed by British Geopoliticians for the explicit purpose …

Matt Ehret: H.G. Wells’ Dystopic Vision Comes Alive With the Great Reset Agenda

H.G. Wells’ Dystopic Vision Comes Alive With the Great Reset Agenda In the Time Machine, society one million years in the future has evolved into two separate species called Morlocks and Eloi. The Morlocks represent the ugly dirty producers who by this future age, all live under ground and run the world’s manufacturing. The Eloi are …

Matt Ehret: Breaking out of Polarities: How a Generation was Brainwashed

Breaking out of Polarities: How a Generation was Brainwashed Why is it that so few Americans alive seem to have any real understanding of their own anti-imperial traditions or even the system of political economy that emerged out of the revolution as the first in history to put humanity, and the powers of mind above …

Matt Ehret: Counter-gang von Hayek Revives Mandeville’s Hellfire Club in the 20th Century Part 3 of a Trilogy

Counter-gang von Hayek Revives Mandeville’s Hellfire Club in the 20th Century Part 3 of a Trilogy In Book 8 of The Republic, Plato’s protagonist Socrates observes astutely that “the ruin of oligarchy is the ruin of democracy. The same disease magnified and intensified by liberty overmasters democracy- the truth being that the excessive increase of anything often …