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  • Everything You Know About the Gospel of Paul is Probably Wrong

    Everything You Know About the Gospel of Paul is Probably Wrong0

    This past year, I burdened the English-speaking world with my very own translation of the New Testament – a project that I undertook at the behest of my editor at Yale University Press, but that I agreed to almost in the instant that it was proposed. I had long contemplated attempting a ‘subversively literal’ rendering

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  • An Overlooked Cause of Rome’s Decline

    An Overlooked Cause of Rome’s Decline0

    There’s a general feeling out there that America is in decline. This feeling has been accompanied by numerous comparisons between modern America and what has become the famous prototype of all societal decline: Ancient Rome. When we hear about the causes of Rome’s decline, we’re usually treated to a list of human causes: moral vice,

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  • What the ‘Jesus Never Existed’ Folks Often Overlook

    What the ‘Jesus Never Existed’ Folks Often Overlook0

    Every Christmas, we get a spate of articles from major newspapers and magazines with titles such as “Who was the real Jesus?” or “Who was the Historical Jesus,” or, “The Virgin Birth of Jesus: Fact or Fable?” Surely they have run out of novel titles by now. This year’s entry was from the Washington Post:

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  • Why Cicero Merits Renewed Attention

    Why Cicero Merits Renewed Attention0

    John Adams said of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) that “All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.” Anthony Everitt called him an “architect of constitutions that still govern our lives.” Thomas Jefferson said the Declaration of Independence was based on “the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle,

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  • A Holiday in Siberia: A Child’s Story of Survival in a Soviet Concentration Camp

    A Holiday in Siberia: A Child’s Story of Survival in a Soviet Concentration Camp0

    By the time Marysa Dac was seven years old she had spent Christmas in at least four different countries. This happened not because her father was a businessman (though he had been) or a diplomat (he was not) but because her family had the misfortune to be living in eastern Poland when it was annexed

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  • Why People Fall for Fake History

    Why People Fall for Fake History1

    Students of the modern education system usually receive some version of the following historical tale of the West, aptly summarized by scholar David Bentley Hart: “Once upon a time… Western humanity was the cosseted and incurious ward of Mother Church; during this, the age of faith, culture stagnated, science languished, wars of religion were routinely

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