Thomas Christian Williams, novelist & screenwriter
@ruinsofempires.bsky.social
My expertise: Thomas Jefferson’s anonymous translation of Volney’s Ruins of Empires
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Like my work? Check out my Volney inspired novels:
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Join me on YouTube & Substack: @ruinsofempires
Like my work? Check out my Volney inspired novels:
https://www.amazon.com/author/thomaschristianwilliams
Good to see others writing about Volney!
Currently reading Volney (1757-1820) philosophynow.org/issues/165/V... @philosophynow.bsky.social
Currently reading Volney (1757-1820) philosophynow.org/issues/165/V... @philosophynow.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Good to see others writing about Volney!
Currently reading Volney (1757-1820) philosophynow.org/issues/165/V... @philosophynow.bsky.social
Currently reading Volney (1757-1820) philosophynow.org/issues/165/V... @philosophynow.bsky.social
Anyone in the U.S. government thinking about the demand-side of the drug equation? Why are so many Americans hooked on drugs? Are they bored with their lives? Too much TV? Too much junk food? Too much of everything?
December 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Anyone in the U.S. government thinking about the demand-side of the drug equation? Why are so many Americans hooked on drugs? Are they bored with their lives? Too much TV? Too much junk food? Too much of everything?
Anyone in the U.S. government thinking about the demand-side of the drug equation? Why are so many Americans hooked on drugs? Are they bored with their lives? Too much TV? Too much junk food? Too much of everything?
December 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Anyone in the U.S. government thinking about the demand-side of the drug equation? Why are so many Americans hooked on drugs? Are they bored with their lives? Too much TV? Too much junk food? Too much of everything?
In the desert southwest about a thousand years ago, two brothers fight for control of an ancient holy city wracked by drought, famine and disbelief...Kash Kachu (White House)...a fictionalized account of the collapse of the civilization at Chaco Canyon NM #xmasgift
www.amazon.com/author/thoma...
www.amazon.com/author/thoma...
December 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
In the desert southwest about a thousand years ago, two brothers fight for control of an ancient holy city wracked by drought, famine and disbelief...Kash Kachu (White House)...a fictionalized account of the collapse of the civilization at Chaco Canyon NM #xmasgift
www.amazon.com/author/thoma...
www.amazon.com/author/thoma...
05 December 2025: Major Lunar Standstill alignment with rue Lorraine, Saint Germain en Laye, France
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
05 December 2025: Major Lunar Standstill alignment with rue Lorraine, Saint Germain en Laye, France
Hier soir, nous avons assisté au dernier grand arrêt lunaire avant 2043. Aujourd'hui, nous comprenons pourquoi ce phénomène se produit. Mais il y a 1000 ans, à Chaco Canyon (Nouveau-Mexique), un groupe de seigneurs rapaces utilisait sa connaissance de la lune pour maintenir son peuple enchaîné...
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Hier soir, nous avons assisté au dernier grand arrêt lunaire avant 2043. Aujourd'hui, nous comprenons pourquoi ce phénomène se produit. Mais il y a 1000 ans, à Chaco Canyon (Nouveau-Mexique), un groupe de seigneurs rapaces utilisait sa connaissance de la lune pour maintenir son peuple enchaîné...
Last night we experienced the last major lunar standstill until 2043. Today we understand why this phenomenon occurs. But 1000 years ago, in Chaco Canyon (New Mexico), a group of rapacious lords used their knowledge of the moon to keep their people in chains…#chaco
www.amazon.com/author/thoma...
www.amazon.com/author/thoma...
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Last night we experienced the last major lunar standstill until 2043. Today we understand why this phenomenon occurs. But 1000 years ago, in Chaco Canyon (New Mexico), a group of rapacious lords used their knowledge of the moon to keep their people in chains…#chaco
www.amazon.com/author/thoma...
www.amazon.com/author/thoma...
Fun Fact: “Ideology” was, originally, nothing but the study of ideas. How do we conceive, test, accept or reject ideas. The ideologues were post-Enlightenment philosophers. They all corresponded with Thomas Jefferson. Napoleon didn’t like them so he started using the word as a pejorative….1/2
September 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Fun Fact: “Ideology” was, originally, nothing but the study of ideas. How do we conceive, test, accept or reject ideas. The ideologues were post-Enlightenment philosophers. They all corresponded with Thomas Jefferson. Napoleon didn’t like them so he started using the word as a pejorative….1/2
Yes it looks pretty bad: the U.S. now has a king, a queen, a national religion and a thought police. Those forces never really disappeared in other countries. They’ve just been laying low, hibernating like a bear, waiting for the right moment to reawaken. That moment is now…
September 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Yes it looks pretty bad: the U.S. now has a king, a queen, a national religion and a thought police. Those forces never really disappeared in other countries. They’ve just been laying low, hibernating like a bear, waiting for the right moment to reawaken. That moment is now…
Yes it looks pretty bad: the U.S. now has a king, a queen, a national religion and a thought police. Those forces never really disappeared in other countries. They’ve just been laying low, hibernating like a bear, waiting for the right moment to reawaken. That moment is now…
September 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Yes it looks pretty bad: the U.S. now has a king, a queen, a national religion and a thought police. Those forces never really disappeared in other countries. They’ve just been laying low, hibernating like a bear, waiting for the right moment to reawaken. That moment is now…
Chapter 10, Volney’s Ruins of Empires, translated by Thomas Jefferson: “Thus ancient states prospered because their citizens, enjoying liberty and security for their persons and their property, might enjoy the use of all their faculties, all the energies of their enlightened self-interest.”
September 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Chapter 10, Volney’s Ruins of Empires, translated by Thomas Jefferson: “Thus ancient states prospered because their citizens, enjoying liberty and security for their persons and their property, might enjoy the use of all their faculties, all the energies of their enlightened self-interest.”
September 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Just what Americans need: more “pot belly”…
September 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Just what Americans need: more “pot belly”…
Such behavior by elites in the 21st century makes it easier to understand reactions by the underprivileged in prior centuries…
(This is a metaphor)
(This is a metaphor)
September 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Such behavior by elites in the 21st century makes it easier to understand reactions by the underprivileged in prior centuries…
(This is a metaphor)
(This is a metaphor)
Such behavior by elites in the 21st century makes it easier to understand reactions by the underprivileged in prior centuries…
(This is a metaphor)
(This is a metaphor)
September 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Such behavior by elites in the 21st century makes it easier to understand reactions by the underprivileged in prior centuries…
(This is a metaphor)
(This is a metaphor)
Other “Portrait of a Lady” Stolen by Republican Nazis Not Recovered…
September 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Other “Portrait of a Lady” Stolen by Republican Nazis Not Recovered…
Other “Portrait of a Lady” Art Stolen by Republican Nazis Not Recovered…
September 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Other “Portrait of a Lady” Art Stolen by Republican Nazis Not Recovered…
“Je vous l'avais bien dit, mes amis”
September 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
“Je vous l'avais bien dit, mes amis”
Pourquoi Thomas Jefferson a-t-il traduit Ruines of Empires de Volney ? Il voulait que le public américain prenne connaissance des principes des Lumières sur lesquels les États-Unis ont été fondés. Et aujourd'hui, nous voyons les résultats lorsque les Américains ne prêtent pas attention…
September 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Pourquoi Thomas Jefferson a-t-il traduit Ruines of Empires de Volney ? Il voulait que le public américain prenne connaissance des principes des Lumières sur lesquels les États-Unis ont été fondés. Et aujourd'hui, nous voyons les résultats lorsque les Américains ne prêtent pas attention…
L'échelle politique gauche-droite est morte : La gauche n'aime pas Les Ruines de Volney (1791) parce qu'il réfute à la fois Rousseau et Marx. La droite n'aime pas Volney parce qu'il prouve que la morale peut exister sans livres saints.
Les Ruines offrent une troisième voie pour la 6ème république.
Les Ruines offrent une troisième voie pour la 6ème république.
September 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
L'échelle politique gauche-droite est morte : La gauche n'aime pas Les Ruines de Volney (1791) parce qu'il réfute à la fois Rousseau et Marx. La droite n'aime pas Volney parce qu'il prouve que la morale peut exister sans livres saints.
Les Ruines offrent une troisième voie pour la 6ème république.
Les Ruines offrent une troisième voie pour la 6ème république.
The left-right political scale is dead:
The left doesn’t like Volney’s Ruins of Empires because it refutes both Rousseau & Marx.
The right doesn’t like Volney because he proves morality can exist without holy books.
Volney’s Ruins provides a Third Way.
That’s why Thomas Jefferson translated it…
The left doesn’t like Volney’s Ruins of Empires because it refutes both Rousseau & Marx.
The right doesn’t like Volney because he proves morality can exist without holy books.
Volney’s Ruins provides a Third Way.
That’s why Thomas Jefferson translated it…
September 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The left-right political scale is dead:
The left doesn’t like Volney’s Ruins of Empires because it refutes both Rousseau & Marx.
The right doesn’t like Volney because he proves morality can exist without holy books.
Volney’s Ruins provides a Third Way.
That’s why Thomas Jefferson translated it…
The left doesn’t like Volney’s Ruins of Empires because it refutes both Rousseau & Marx.
The right doesn’t like Volney because he proves morality can exist without holy books.
Volney’s Ruins provides a Third Way.
That’s why Thomas Jefferson translated it…
Rather than building bolt-hole fortresses on remote tropical islands, oligarchs would do better to just read history…
September 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Rather than building bolt-hole fortresses on remote tropical islands, oligarchs would do better to just read history…
Rather than building bolt-hole fortresses on remote tropical islands, oligarchs would do better to just read history…
September 3, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Rather than building bolt-hole fortresses on remote tropical islands, oligarchs would do better to just read history…
Frederic Douglass BTW was a big fan of Volney’s Ruins. But like everyone else in that era, he never knew he was reading a translation by Thomas Jefferson…
September 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Frederic Douglass BTW was a big fan of Volney’s Ruins. But like everyone else in that era, he never knew he was reading a translation by Thomas Jefferson…
Pourquoi personne en France ne lit-il Les Ruines (1791) de Volney ? Après tout, Volney était membre de la première Assemblée nationale. Alors pourquoi les Français ne lisent-ils pas Volney ? Parce que Les Ruines a été écrit pour réfuter Le Contrat social de Rousseau. Voilà pourquoi.
September 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Pourquoi personne en France ne lit-il Les Ruines (1791) de Volney ? Après tout, Volney était membre de la première Assemblée nationale. Alors pourquoi les Français ne lisent-ils pas Volney ? Parce que Les Ruines a été écrit pour réfuter Le Contrat social de Rousseau. Voilà pourquoi.