Thomas Paine was a plain talking, big thinking common man - self educated in matters of science, philosophy, activism and political theory.His pamphlets and books inspired ordinary people througho...
William Shakespeare's play Henry V is one of his inspirational history plays, with much that can boost flagging morale when the chips are down. Kenneth Brannagh does a phenomenal job of rousing his tr...
William Shakespeare was arguably the greatest writer in history. His works have been translated into every living language. He’s been credited with literally inventing a tenth of the entire English la...
Economic uncertainty, rising geopolitical tension, social unrest and the loss of trust in government, institutions and leaders. All of this heightened anxiety only contributes to the ongoing sense of ...
The Grimm brothers fairy tale Iron John (or Der Eisenhans in German) was the subject of study by prize winning American poet and author Robert Bly, who was a prominent figure in the mythopoetic men's ...
Albert Facey, born at the desperate tail end of the Australian gold rush, suffered incredible hardship, poverty and even child slavery, only to escape and survive like so many other Huckleberry Finns ...
The hero’s journey is the mythological representation of the challenges we all face in life and the path that must be travelled to overcome them. But more than that, it represents what famous mytholog...
On April 23, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt gave what would become one of the most widely quoted speeches of his career. At the University of the Sorbonne in Paris, Roosevelt delivered a speech called “Citi...
"Invictus" is a short poem by the Victorian era British poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). It was written in 1875 and published in 1888 in his first volume of poems, Book of Verses, in the sectio...
