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4 Practical Reasons to Study Latin
- Culture, Education, Featured, Western Civilization
- October 8, 2026






After the Lindsay Clancy trial ended in a mistrial, one female juror who voted “not guilty” embarked on a press tour. Her objective apparently was to cast herself as a feminist hero and the lone holdout juror as a strange, stubborn man. According to Juror Paula Devlin, the women on the jury saw the case
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The depths of Abraham Lincoln’s misery following the death of fiancée Ann Rutledge is well known. (Lincoln’s close friend Josh Speed provided a detailed and captivating recollection of the Lincoln-Rutledge courtship, an unlikely romance that was nothing short of Shakespearean in both beauty and tragedy.) Lincoln was remarkably frank and open about his persistent “melancholy”, which
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People love to talk about the crisis facing America today, but few take a moment to consider all of the terrible challenges that the nation has faced. Millions of Americans can remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, stagflation, the crime waves of 1970s and 1980s, and any number of other disasters. So while
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In 1838, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered a Lyceum lecture, The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions. The Lyceum lectures were part of a voluntary adult education movement. Lincoln was a new lawyer and member of the Illinois House of Representatives. It had been just over 60 years since the start of the American Revolution. Yet, Lincoln
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is about as liberal as they come. As a major Broadway star, a rising Hollywood actor, and a frequent pop-up on all manner of late-night talk shows and channels, I guess that’s the natural path for the poor dude to follow. Despite his liberal tendencies, I personally think that Lin-Manuel’s twitter account
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With Inauguration Day behind us, ink spilled on politics is being diverted from Donald Trump and the transition of power to Joe Biden and the exercise of power. One such piece by Jeffrey D. Sachs over at CNN takes a rather disingenuous approach to this theme, calling a small government approach “reckless radicalism.” Rather than
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