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  • A History Lesson on the Shifting Political Stances on Illegal Immigration

    A History Lesson on the Shifting Political Stances on Illegal Immigration0

    Here are a couple of easy immigration questions—answerable with a simple “yes” or “no”—we might ask any American of any political stripe: Does everyone in the world have a right to live in the U.S.? Do the American people have a right, through their elected representatives, to decide who has the right to immigrate to

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  • A History Joke

    A History Joke0

    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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  • A Historic Presidency

    A Historic Presidency0

    In the first two decades of the century, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of state supported U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. He was an ever-reliable liberal interventionist. This same Antony Blinken could spend the first years of a Biden presidency helping extricate our country from the misbegotten wars he championed.

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  • A Historian’s Disturbing Take on Why a Civilization Breaks Down

    A Historian’s Disturbing Take on Why a Civilization Breaks Down0

    In his famous work A Study of History, Arnold Toynbee examines why some civilizations break down. Interestingly, he concludes that the reason for civilizations breaking down is contained within the very reason for their growth: “[T]he very process by which growth is sustained is inherently risky: the creative leadership of a society has to resort

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  • A Historian Explains Why America Will Probably Fail

    A Historian Explains Why America Will Probably Fail0

    The English author Paul Johnson opens his book A History of the American People (1997) by calling the United States “the greatest of all human adventures.” While clearly a fan of America’s grand experiment, Johnson nonetheless expressed some doubt about whether the nation could succeed beyond the 20th century because of its dark past, which included

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  • A Haunting Line About How Civilizations Fall

    A Haunting Line About How Civilizations Fall0

    • July 29, 2015

      Below is the oft-quoted line from Will Durant, which appears in the Epilogue to volume 3 of his Story of Civilization. You may remember it from the beginning of Mel Gibson’s film Apocalypto.   Here’s the context of the passage: Save this article to favorites

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