Blood & Rain

The most fantastical period of European history is rooted in the events surrounding one man, one Caesar of his age embodying both Julius and Augustus as a general and political operator respectively. He moulded Europe...

The return of the Tsar. The restoration of Constantinople. Orthodox America. The question is always “how?” There is a notion that is common amongst modern Christians that if the world is not to the perfect standard of...

The bid for an American Napoleon originating from the American South in a Louisiana that stopped looking after its people. A boy born in one of the poorest counties in America to an upper middle class family by that...

What is often defined as the golden age of television is centered around one common thread: the antihero. America’s obsession with the flawed protagonist not always operating in the interest of upholding the highest...

In part two of the Ius Publicum Europeaum Series, I am once again joined by our new political theory cohost, Merctores to discuss the fruits of Hugo Grotius’s labors that gave life to European public law and the rise of...

The Son of God and Son of man has not only given humanity the opportunity for salvation of the soul, but He has called upon us in the material to act in accordance with our prayers on the road to Salvation. God saw it...

For the first time on Blood & Rain, we have a co-host, a member of the Anti-Fragile Athletes and aspiring professor from the Netherlands, Adam who will go by the moniker, “Mercatores.” After two years of fascination...

The “Zillennials”and an intense Generation Z contingent displays the opposite behavior and sentiments of the Millennial and Generation Z majority. Within the context of America and Europe’s fracturing hold that has...

The DR’s resident geopolitical analyst, The Prudentialist joins me to discuss how he got into geopolitics, his view on the current American situation both domestically and internationally, his conversion to Orthodox...

In the midst of Orthodox Lent, I’m joined by the Instagram “DR Sphere” favorite, Principality of Spirit to discuss the importance of Orthodox laymen studying political theory and Orthodox political theory.

Knut Hamsun is a forgotten writer whose importance is second only to Shakespeare when discussing the world of fiction. This is the first of many episodes on the magnificent writer of Norway who pioneered stream of...

Blood & Rain defined as a mission and ethos. De-centralized micro cold wars ahead.

Rest In Peace Cormac McCarthy Rest In Peace John Steinbeck Rest In Peace Ernest Hemingway The American canon has its authors who are obvious, stable additions to its pantheon. Fitzgerald. Twain. Poe. Faulkner...

Fitzgerald dethroned Mark Twain as America’s most important writer, for he wrote of the affliction that struck America. The same affliction of a malicious sentient spirit that plagued The British and German empires all...

The Southern Gothic ethos is one bathed in blood, melancholy, and an immunity to modernity. It was born in the South’s defeat by their own blood brothers in a war that was both civil and not. This ethos gave America a...