Archive - ncthompson

History, or Allegory?

Interpreting Signs of a "new Renaissance"

Dec 20, 2025 • Nick

September 2025

First Fragmentary on Kafka's The Trial

Arrest/Conversation with Frau Grubach/Then Fräulein Bürstner/Initial Inquiry

Sep 14, 2025 • Nick

Hatching Dragons: How Decades of Humanities Scholarship have Unwittingly Laid a Groundwork for Far Right Theory

I recently commented on a Substack post in which “Endeavour” argued that the reason the imagery of heroism disappeared from Western culture is that the…

Sep 4, 2025 • Nick

August 2025

Euthyphro, Eichmann, and the Rule of Law

There is a saying that what happens in the United States is ten years away from happening in Canada, and although not inscribed in the book of nature it…

Aug 27, 2025 • Nick

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