The Third Reconstruction: A Strategic and Spiritual Diagnosis Preface (Introduction). The term “Third Reconstruction” has recently appeared in some circles to describe vast social and cultural shifts affecting the rural, working-class American South. This analysis explores the claim that an unwritten campaign is unfolding – a “Third Reconstruction” of American life – targeting traditional Southern…
From Federal Republic to Unitary Empire: Post-Civil War Transformation and the Myth of Constitutional Continuity
From Federal Republic to Unitary Empire: Post-Civil War Transformation and the Myth of Constitutional Continuity Abstract This thesis examines the transformation of the United States from a federated republic into a de facto centralized empire in the aftermath of the Civil War, and the consequent epistemological dissonance between America’s constitutional mythology and its evolved governance.…
From Realism to Inversion: Why the Rational Actor Paradigm No Longer Explains World Events
Prologue: The Eclipse of Reason “This book exists not to comfort, but to consecrate… The enemy hears when this book is opened.” (Preface to the War Psalms of the Order) Brethren, We stand in an age where reason itself has been eclipsed. Once, statesmen and generals at least pretended to share a common reality, a…
Intelligence Profile: ANTIFA
Intelligence Profile: ANTIFA 0. Document Metadata Version/Date/Author: Version 1.0 – 09 October 2025 – Prepared by [REDACTED Analyst], Reviewed by OBS Intelligence Board. Classification & Handling: INTERNAL USE ONLY – Sensitive analytical product for OBS personnel. Not for public release. Handle per OBS intelligence guidelines. Sources (INTs & Reliability): Predominantly Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) – news…
Order of the Black Shield Silent Wing Intelligence Report- US Strike on Iran
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Public Orthodoxy — Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center Forum
I. Executive Illumination Public Orthodoxy (PO) is a public-facing editorial platform hosted by the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University. It serves as a bridge between ecclesial tradition, academic scholarship, and public discourse . Launched in fall 2015, it has since published op-eds from “hundreds of international scholars on a wide variety of topics”,…
Interdictum Contra Materialismum: The Judgment Against Emergentist Myth and Evolutionary Epistemology
Introduction: In an age enamored with material explanations and secular myths, we stand to issue a comprehensive interdictum – a stern judgment – against the reigning assumptions of materialism. Modern thought often claims that morality, mind, meaning, and even the cosmos itself can be fully explained by blind evolutionary processes or impersonal scientific laws. Yet,…