John E Marks·4d agoThe speech of angels“Without music, life would be a mistake” ― Friedrich NietzscheA response icon3
InScritturabyJohn E Marks·Nov 3THE CONQUEST of the WEST 1453From its inception, Islam was not merely a religion, but also a political community, the nation of Islam (ummat al-Islam).A response icon1
John E Marks·Jul 28The last ByzantineBetween 1915–1922 more than 3.5 million Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrian Christians were murdered by the Turks so that now 99.8% of the…
Ha·Jul 6The Walls That Couldn’t Stop an Idea: What Constantinople Taught Me About Breaking ThroughHistory books often describe Constantinople as the “City of the World’s Desire.” For over a thousand years, it stood as the ultimate…
Keanu Dasha Harison·Jul 1Book Review — Roger Crowley’s “1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the…I often say that 1453 was the West’s greatest defeat — and its most revealing. Roger Crowley’s 1453 lays it bare, the fall of…
