Culture is an essential but often overlooked element in the resistance to tyranny. History provides plentiful examples; Charlemagne had great trouble with both Saxons and Basques; culture was the driving force in Jewish resistance to the Romans; and likewise for the Scots against the English. But we, today, seem to be missing that clarity. We've been conquered without noticing, and the old cultures of our ancestors are mostly gone - often given up willingly for the promise of something better,… Continue