The Social Pathologist

Blogging has been scarce since I've been a bit burned out but I thought I should make an effort for Christmas. Protestantism gets a bad ...

One of the unexpected consequences of revisiting the life of Charles de Gaulle was a deeper appreciation of man who I frequently ran into wh...

“I could be the Buddha of Europe: though admittedly an antipode to the Indian Buddha” ( Friedrich Nietzsche ) I've got to admit that I...

As the debacle of Afghanistan flashes across our TV screens it's important to reflect why a bunch of goat herders were able to successfu...

One of the things that struck me in reading about de Gaulle's life is how Catholic support for the Free French could be predicted by the...

“As the French and as Christians we oppose Hitler and fight the fight” Andre Malraux, de Gaulle's polymath Minister of Cultural affairs...

Buddhism is centripetal, but Christianity is centrifugal   (GK Chesterton)   Yet another interesting figure that pops up in relation to the...

One of the intellectual digressions that occupied me after reading Jackson's book on De Gaulle was the character of Jean Monnet .  I hav...

One of the reasons why I'm currently writing about Charles de Gaulle is because I feel that he has been unfairly maligned in the Anglosp...

 Back to regular programming. One of the reasons why I've been harping on about De Gaulle recently is because, after re-examining his li...

Most people might not be aware that the Catholic Church has just updated its code of Canon Law. In itself it's not really a big deal bu...

French-US relations took a dive after the Second World War and it needs to be understood as not a particularly "de Gaulle thing". ...