Patriotism has become a hot-button item on the political scene, today. Inciting fierce, personal, and emotional reaction from nearly anybody, patriotism has come to be symbiotic with debate and, unfortunately, anger. But why?

Is there a possibility for both good and bad counterfeits in Tolstoy’s schema?

Tolstoy finds that the emerging "modern" art of his time was marked by manic eroticism, pure amusement and/or general incomprehensibility. My opinion that things have not improved at all in the last century.

Tolstoy takes the large step of separating Art from either beauty or pleasure (as its primary purpose) and claims it is the symbolic reproduction of communal feelings instead. My thoughts on this distinction.

Who is the richest man in the world, who is the richest man on the planet Earth? Its not Bill Gates, its not Warren Buffet, well, I think its me.

Reflections on Leo Tolstoy’s Confessions, an exploration of life and its futility and the possible remedies to these insurmountable facts according to Leo Tolstoy, famous author and philosopher.