Germans invented the fairy tale, which is always about a world and a time that no longer exist. The disruption that begat the fairy tale was Napoleon's conquest of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. Since then, German history has been an exercise in nostalgia for times before: before Christianity; before Napoleon; before the industrial revolution; before World War I; before the saturation bombing of World War II; and so on.
Join E. Michael Jones as he rows a romantic stretch of the Danube (the river that once formed the northern boundary of the Roman Empire and remains the main artery of commerce in southeastern Europe), past the baroque palace at Melk and past the Benedictine monasteries that brought civilization and Christianity to barbarians, and also as he bicycles from Pittsburgh, PA to Washington, D.C.
Along the way, Jones reflects on American and European land-use policy, civilization's relationship to nature and wilderness, Christian culture, popular culture, ethnic culture, globalism, and much more.
Escape From Globalism is itself an exercise in nostalgia: Jones rowed the Danube before the Euro, when local currencies existed; before September 11; and before the neoconservative takeover of American foreign policy. Jones saw globalism coming; he mourns the past.
Join E. Michael Jones as he rows a romantic stretch of the Danube (the river that once formed the northern boundary of the Roman Empire and remains the main artery of commerce in southeastern Europe), past the baroque palace at Melk and past the Benedictine monasteries that brought civilization and Christianity to barbarians, and also as he bicycles from Pittsburgh, PA to Washington, D.C.
Along the way, Jones reflects on American and European land-use policy, civilization's relationship to nature and wilderness, Christian culture, popular culture, ethnic culture, globalism, and much more.
Escape From Globalism is itself an exercise in nostalgia: Jones rowed the Danube before the Euro, when local currencies existed; before September 11; and before the neoconservative takeover of American foreign policy. Jones saw globalism coming; he mourns the past.
Renowned culture critic E. Michael Jones is the editor of Culture Wars magazine.
