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  • Setting the Record Straight on the Crusades

    Setting the Record Straight on the Crusades0

    The Crusader Strategy: Defending the Holy Land, by Steve Tibble (Yale University Press; 376 pp., $35.00). If one gets his Crusades history from Karen Armstrong or the History Channel, one is likely to think that nasty and brutish Franks went off half-cocked to the Holy Land to rape, pillage, and enslave peaceful Muslims. This is an ignorant

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  • Setting the Record Straight on Liberal Fascism

    Setting the Record Straight on Liberal Fascism0

    The right is often accused of fascist tendencies in many of today’s political diatribes. A typical response is for the right to return the same accusation toward the left, a fact Edward Ring explores in a recent article for American Greatness, citing Jonah Goldberg’s famous book Liberal Fascism. Ring provides an intellectual service by bringing up the relationship

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  • Serious Students of History Should Watch Out for These 5 Prejudices

    Serious Students of History Should Watch Out for These 5 Prejudices0

    No one can completely avoid bringing prejudices to his or her study of history. Nevertheless, some prejudices are more insidious than others, and can be an obstacle to a fruitful use of historical learning. Drawing from the work of Giambattista Vico, philosopher of history R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) names and describes the following 5 prejudices that

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  • Serious Debate Isn’t Possible on Television

    Serious Debate Isn’t Possible on Television0

    I’ll be honest. I didn’t watch the debate last night. And I didn’t watch any of the primary debates earlier this year. And I don’t think I watched any of the debates during the last presidential election. It’s not that I’m uninterested in serious discourse about serious issues. It’s simply that I don’t believe it

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  • Serious Concerns about America’s Education System… in 1840

    Serious Concerns about America’s Education System… in 18401

    • August 10, 2015

    Many assume that America’s public education system developed organically in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War. In truth, however, its origins lie in the Common School Movement led by Horace Mann in Massachusetts beginning in the 1830s. Drawing inspiration from Prussia and France, Mann envisioned and campaigned for a more uniform, centralized, and government-controlled education

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  • Serf or Slave? The Tax Man Cometh

    Serf or Slave? The Tax Man Cometh1

    On April 13th I sent a whopping check to the federal government and a lesser one to the government of Virginia. The total of these two checks equaled about 25 percent of my income. Throw in sales tax on food and goods, the tax on gasoline and heating fuel, the property tax I pay through

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