History

Fighting for Liberty in the Age of COVID-19 0
- History
- April 20, 2020
It’s about 11 o’clock in the morning on April 19, 1775. Imagine yourself standing in a motley band of 400 people at the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. You and your neighbors are armed with a variety of firearms, many of you are apprehensive or frightened, and all of you firmly believe that a tyrant
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Good Bureaucrats of Good Friday 0
- History
- April 9, 2020
Thus spoke Nietzsche: “Must I add that, in the whole New Testament, there appears but a solitary figure worthy of honor? Pilate, the Roman viceroy. To regard a Jewish imbroglio seriously—that was quite beyond him.… The noble scorn of a Roman, before whom the word truth was shamelessly mishandled, enriched the New Testament with the
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Bernie Sanders’ Long Game Is Just Beginning 0
- History
- April 9, 2020
The withdrawal of Sen. Bernie Sanders from the Democratic primary left former Vice President Joe Biden as the only major candidate left in the race. As such, he is the presumptive 2020 Democrat presidential nominee for 2020. “I wish I could give you better news, but I think you know the truth,” Sanders said in his
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Christ and the Nazi Officer 0
- History
- April 8, 2020
Christians, we often hear, are “so heavenly minded that they’re no earthly good.” To be sure, there is some validity to this criticism. Plenty of Christians allow their faith in divine providence to override their responsibility to care for the world and for their neighbor. The way in which many Christians automatically dismiss all ecological concerns as
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The Old Left Wasn’t Very Leftist 2
- History
- April 8, 2020
While researching a book on antifascism, it became clear to me that the contemporary left has strange ideas about what earlier leftists believed. This is especially true in the ascription of a certain timelessness to intersectional politics, which today’s antifascists are all about. In How Fascism Works by Yale Philosophy Professor Jason Stanley, and in
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COVID-19 in the Light of History 0
- History
- March 27, 2020
Serious epidemics can have far-reaching social, cultural, and geopolitical consequences. The plague which devastated Athens in 430 BC – in the second year of the Peloponnesian War, when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach – claimed a quarter of the population, some 75,000 people including Pericles. His successors were weak and incompetent, and Athens
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