Devin Foley is the co-founder of Intellectual Takeout and former CEO of Charlemagne Institute.
Today is Maundy Thursday of the Christian Holy Week in the West. Traditionally, the day remembers the Last Supper, Christ’s washing of the disciples’ feet, and the great mandate, which is where the name Maundy is derived. To begin, the name ‘Maundy’ is derived from the Latin word ‘mandatum’, which means ‘commandment’. From the
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As of this writing, over 30 people are dead and nearly 250 wounded after bombings at the Brussels airport and a major metro hub. ISIS has taken credit for the bombings, based on the report from their news agency, Amaq: “Islamic State fighters carried out a series of bombings with explosive belts and devices on
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Words are powerful. In the case of the word holocaust, we tend to think of it solely in reference to the Nazis’ attempt to eliminate all Jews in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s through mass shootings, concentration camps, and eventually gas extermination followed by mass graves and crematorium. But the word was actually in
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Question: How many historians does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: There is a great deal of debate on this issue. Up until the mid-20th century, the accepted answer was ‘one’: and this Whiggish narrative underpinned a number of works that celebrated electrification and the march of progress in light-bulb changing. Beginning in
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