History

Why Ordinary People Enable Totalitarians 4
- Culture, History, Politics
- December 12, 2023
Cicero said history “casts light on reality and is a guide to life.” The wisdom gained by understanding the past helps prevent the same errors from being repeated. Sebastian Haffner pursued answers to the questions of how the Nazis rose to power in Germany and why the German people did not stop them. In 1939, he wrote
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George Washington’s Thanksgiving Message: What A Different Era 8
- From the Editorial Board, History
- November 22, 2023
Thanksgiving is a quintessential American holiday. It is a holiday that in many ways requires some sense of the supernatural – whether we care to acknowledge it or not. Below you will find our first President’s proclamation of Thanksgiving in which his sense of the hand of Providence upon the American Republic is quite clear. Indeed,
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Gun Control Advocates Ignore What the Founding Fathers Really Thought 4
- Culture, History
- October 25, 2023
In all my years of existence, the Second Amendment of our Constitution has always been considered controversial. Opponents claim it is the cause of gun violence. Proponents assert that it helps guarantee freedom and safety. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep
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From Time Immemorial: Questions and Answers About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 6
- Breaking News, History, International
- October 13, 2023
Over the weekend, the world was shocked by news of the Hamas attack on Israel, with a massacre against partygoers, brutal house-to-house killings and kidnappings, and the deaths of at least 22 Americans. Now the world braces as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declares war against Hamas, vowing “mighty vengeance” for the over 1,300 Israelis
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Money Talks: The Agenda Behind the American Women Quarters Program 2
- Culture, History
- October 9, 2023
Nina Otero-Warren. Anna May Wong. Edith Kanaka‘ole. Jovita Idar. Zitkala-Ša. Dr. Pauli Murray. Celia Cruz. Ask any American to identify these women—Murray was “perceived” as a woman—and unless that person majored in women’s studies, odds are high that few will recognize these names. Yet these are seven of the 15 names featured now on the
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Publius Rutilius Rufus: Rome’s ‘Last Honest Man’2
- History
- October 6, 2023
Banished for debasing the currency from his home city in what is now north-central Turkey, Diogenes of Sinope chose to beg in the streets of Corinth and Athens, live in a clay jar, and eschew wealth of any kind. The story is often told that he walked the streets with a lantern, looking in vain for
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