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Free thinking is a risk.

By Gerardine Hoogland
December 14, 2025

Few are prepared to take it.

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A Letter to Antiquity.

By Gerardine Hoogland
December 14, 2025

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

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The erosion of democracy depends upon the will and actions of the people.

By Gerardine Hoogland
December 14, 2025

What remains of those ancient customs on which the state of Rome stood firm?

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Wisdom of the Ancients

By Gerardine Hoogland
December 14, 2025

Through the recording of historical affairs does the flame grow in the breasts of exceptional men and women.

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Who is this? and What is here?

By Gerardine Hoogland
December 14, 2025

An interruption to the wonders of antiquity while whimsey takes the stage.

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Lucretia’s Rome

By Gerardine Hoogland
December 14, 2025

No one person is a mere private citizen when it comes to preserving the people’s freedom - Cicero.

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🏛️ A Shakespearean Lament - or Warning to the Future

By Gerardine Hoogland
December 14, 2025

One of the most poignant lines from Shakespeare’s, The Tempest, is without a doubt the most apt to describe the state of our post-modern world.

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Myths, Labyrinths and the Tyrant-Monster

By Gerardine Hoogland
December 14, 2025

Follow the thread of the hero-path.

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