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  • The Last Great Pandemic

    The Last Great Pandemic0

    Hardly anything that happens in this world is truly unprecedented. As Americans respond to the coronavirus pandemic, which began in China, with canceled events, business closures, and aggressive social distancing, many are taking an interest in another great pandemic that took place a hundred years ago. “We have an invisible enemy. We have a problem that a

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  • The New York Times Begins Correcting the Historical Record on ‘1619 Project’

    The New York Times Begins Correcting the Historical Record on ‘1619 Project’0

    “I have been thinking about this and reading obsessively for 25 years about all the inequalities in American life that can be traced back to slavery,” Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times told an audience at Harvard in December.  Now the Times admits: Her obsession bested her reason.  On March 11, the Times issued a correction to

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  • Do New Inventions Kill Old Liberties?

    Do New Inventions Kill Old Liberties?0

    There is one aspect of modern science and machinery that nobody has noticed. It is quite new, and it is enormously important. It is this; that the very fact of using new methods makes it easier to fall back on old morals, especially if they are very immoral morals. These prescient words came from the

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  • Fighting Fear in Uncertain Times

    Fighting Fear in Uncertain Times0

    Recently a friend asked me, “What’s it like over there?” “Pretty quiet,” I replied. “Rainy. Normal. Looking out the window, life seems fine.” It’s when one looks away from the peaceful window scene and begins looking at headlines that the sky seems to be falling. Whether it’s the threat of viruses, the implosion of the stock

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  • Historic Iwo Jima Footage Shows Individual Marines Amid the Larger Battle

    Historic Iwo Jima Footage Shows Individual Marines Amid the Larger Battle0

    When most Americans think of the World War II battle for Iwo Jima – if they think of it at all, 75 years later – they think of one image: Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, the island’s highest point. That moment, captured in black and white by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal

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  • The Attraction of Modern Paganism

    The Attraction of Modern Paganism0

    Our ancestors worshipped an array of nature spirits and deities before the advent of Christianity. The shaman (to use a generic term) was the intermediary between spirit beings and people. Fictitious beings such as fairies, pixies and elves were also part of this picture. The more advanced ancient civilizations developed complex belief systems involving pantheons

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