History

America Needs Elites … But Not the Kind That We Think 0
- Culture, Education, Featured, History, Politics, Western Civilization
- April 15, 2026
“I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University,” William F. Buckley Jr. once quipped. It was likely a fair judgment when he said it, and if
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Is There Archeological Evidence for the Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus?0
- Culture, Featured, History, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- April 2, 2026
For Christians around the world, this is the most important week of the year, leading toward Good Friday when Jesus Christ was crucified, and culminating in Easter Sunday, when Christ achieved victory over death through His resurrection. But what about for the non-Christian – or even for the Christian who greets the event as nothing
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Owning a Piece of History: Why Artifacts Matter 0
- Culture, Education, Featured, History, Western Civilization
- April 1, 2026
Do historical objects matter? Are ancient artifacts anything more than old scraps of paper, moth-eaten fragments of fabric, or rusty hunks of metal? In frenetic modern life, with its emphasis on the now and the brand new, most people are more concerned with owning the latest iPhone than owning some relic of the past. But that’s a mistake.
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Hospitality, a Cornerstone of Culture 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, Literature, Western Civilization
- March 18, 2026
I recently read Sigrid Undset’s beautiful novel “Kristan Lavransdatter,” a tale of desire and regret set in medieval Norway. Undset has been rightly praised for the meticulous historical scholarship that informed the novel, offering us an authentic glimpse into the life of 14th-century Scandinavian culture. One feature of that culture that stood out to me
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Embracing Heroes of the Past, Warts and All 0
- Culture, Featured, History, Religion, Western Civilization
- March 10, 2026
Saints are heroes, but heroes are rarely saints. When nuance was still a word in the American vocabulary, we understood that a hero came with warts. Take Robert E. Lee, for instance. Dwight Eisenhower pronounced Lee “one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation” and kept his portrait in the White House. Franklin Roosevelt described Lee as
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4 Tips for Families From Shackleton’s Voyage 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History
- February 23, 2026
One of my sons gave me some belated Christmas gifts just as cold and snow clamped down on my little town. Among these was a copy of Alfred Lansing’s “Endurance,” a narrative account of explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew of 27 who fought for nearly two years to survive the gales, sub-zero temperatures, and
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