by The New Romanticist | Jan 1, 2018 | Poetry
By Badger Clark My fathers sleep on the sunrise plains, And each one sleeps alone. Their trails may dim to the grass and rains, For I choose to make my own. I lay proud claim to their blood and name, But I lean on no dead kin; My name is mine for the praise or scorn,...
by Andrew Bernstein | Dec 30, 2017 | LITERATURE
Kalin Baronov was about to die. Georgi Leonidov had saved Kalin’s life more times than could be remembered. Now he would cause his death. On this black Belasitsa night, elite agents of the Durjavna Sigurnost advanced on him from three sides. Only the sheer cliff face...
by The New Romanticist | Aug 2, 2017 | LITERATURE
What trials unite Katniss Everdeen, Harry Potter, Frodo Baggins and many of literature’s most interesting heroes — and you? Matthew Winkler takes you through the crucial events that make or break a hero as based on the works of Joseph Campbell’s A...
by The New Romanticist | Jul 23, 2017 | Poetry
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried...
by Scott Holleran | Jun 11, 2017 | LITERATURE
Robert Mayhew, a philosophy professor at Seton Hall University, is the author of Aristotles Criticism of Platos Republic, The Female in Aristotles Biology, and Ayn Rand and Song of Russia, and the editor of Ayn Rands Marginalia, Ayn Rands The Art of Nonfiction, Essays...
by The New Romanticist | Jun 1, 2017 | Poetry
Philosopher Ayn Rand said that she wanted no eulogies at her funeral, but only asked that her favorite poem, “If” by Rudyard Kipling, be read. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself...
