Archive - Sean Berube

The Real Life Count of Monte Cristo

A look behind the man who inspired France's greatest novelist

Aug 20 •

The Bacchae: How Ignoring Your Dark Side Can Destroy You

What this Ancient Greek Tragedy Teaches About Curiosity, Madness, and the Human Psyche

Aug 16 •

A Tale of Two Cities: Guillotines and Grace

Finding Redemption in the Shadow of a Bloody Revolution

Aug 13 •

The Count of Monte Cristo's Hidden Genius

How Misfortune Becomes the Gateway to Joy

Aug 9 •

Demons: Dostoevsky's Censored Novel

The chapter deemed too disturbing to publish

Aug 6 •

Plato’s Ladder to True Love

How eros guides the soul to the True, the Good, and the Beautiful

Aug 2 •

July 2025

How to Grieve Without Losing God

Tolkien’s Forgotten Source of Hope in the Face of Death

Jul 30 •

The Hidden Hero of Homer’s Odyssey

What most readers miss about Homer’s masterpiece

Jul 26 •

CS Lewis’ Grave Warning: The Abolition of Man

Why moral relativism is the death of mankind

Jul 23 •

Dostoevsky: How Beauty will Save the World

His ancient solution to the modern problem of nihilism

Jul 18 •

Don Quixote and the Death of Wonder

The Mistake that Gutted the Soul of the West

Jul 16 •

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