
The Shadow’s Feast: Exploring the Pagan Heart of Halloween We wear its guise once a year. We cloak ourselves in velvet darkness and carved grins, embracing a night that feels both foreign and intimately familiar. But beneath the cheap polyester and sugar-rush frenzy lies a deeper, more somber truth. Halloween is not a manufactured American holiday.…

A Mind Sharpened by Chaos Born in Florence in 1469, Niccolò Machiavelli came of age in a world that devoured idealists. Italy wasn’t a country yet,it was a battlefield of city-states, shifting alliances, and backstabbing elites. From this fractured crucible emerged a man who didn’t romanticize power. He studied it like a butcher studies bone.…