Dr. Robert Hickson 2 February 2022 Feast of Candlemas The Presentation of Jesus and the Purification of Mary Anthony S. Fraser (b. Candlemas1949 – d. 28 August 2014) Epigraphs *** “To my dear friend, Bob, in our common loyalty to the Holy Faith. Gratefully, Bro. Francis, M.I.C.M.” (This inscription was to Dr. Maluf’s own very…
Dr. Robert Hickson God and the Knowledge of Reality (1973) by Dr. Thomas Molnar: An Inchoate Young Scholar’s Brief 1975 Review of the Book’s Trenchant Substance Author’s Note on 3 June 2021: After unexpectedly recently discovering my June 1975, 4-page book review of Dr. Molnar’s profound little study—my review being written while I was still…
Dr. Robert Hickson 5 April 2021 Saint Vincent Ferrer, O.P. (d. 1419) Blessed Juliana of Mount Cornillon (d. 1258) Epigraphs “The enormous evils from which we are suffering, the degradation of our fellow-citizens, the accursed domination of our plutocracy is in the act of [a complacent? or temporarily acquiescent?] settlement. But after that? Will there…
Author’s Note, 11 November 2020: After this 22-page-text from November 1997 was somehow discovered and read in early 1998 by General Peter Schoomaker himself, and by some of his General Staff at the Special Operations Command, I received a personal invitation to speak more thoroughly about these matters, especially about the strategic culture and capacities…
Author’s Note: This 8 July 1998 text (7 pages) is part of my response to the personal invitation I received from the Commanding General of the U.S. Special Operations Command, General Peter Schoomaker. The contributory text focused on the desirably strategic education of the Special Operation Forces (SOF). The 2 October 1998 Annex (3 pages)…
Author’s Note: This essay is the third essay in a sequence of strategic studies on biological and psychological warfare (see footnote 1 below). The earlier articles were written on 15 November 1997 and 8 July 1998, this third one being dated 22 August 1998. We plan to re-publish these studies in light of the current…
Dr. Robert Hickson 12 October 2020 Our Lady of the Pillar (36 A.D.) Epigraphs “Lest my title should mislead I will restrict it by definition.” (Hilaire Belloc, Who Own America? (1936, 1999), page 431.) *** “That this new worship is vigorous and real may be proved by the test of sacrifice: that which a man…
Dr. Robert Hickson 29 September 2020 Saint Michael the Archangel Epigraphs “The censor’s sway is felt most acutely in the social sciences, especially in the sphere of history. Soviet censorship begins in the head of the historian.” (Alexander Nekrich, “Rewriting History” (1980)—my emphasis added) *** “For the conscientious researcher, work loses all point if the…
Dr. Robert Hickson 2 August 2020 Our Lady…
Dr. Robert Hickson 11 July 2020 Saint…