History

Why Cicero Merits Renewed Attention 0
- History
- December 28, 2017
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 0
- History
- December 21, 2017
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 1
- History
- December 20, 2017
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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Was John Wayne’s Masculine Image a Lie?0
- History
- December 15, 2017
There is perhaps no manlier icon in Hollywood history than John Wayne. More than 40 years after his last film, he remains the cinematic apotheosis of the rugged, principled, red-blooded, tough-as-nails, frontier-conquering, patriotic American male. Not even Steve McQueen or Clint Eastwood can measure up to The Duke. But was Wayne’s masculine image a sham,
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What the Founders Understood About Religious Freedom That We Must Recover 0
- History
- December 15, 2017
Friday, Dec. 15, marks the anniversary of the day our young nation ratified the Bill of Rights in 1791. Given the national discussion in recent days over whether the government may compel speech from an ordinary baker, now is an especially good time to consider the very first words of our charter document: “Congress shall
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J.R.R. Tolkien on Sex and Love 1
- History
- December 4, 2017
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century. Best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945. He left this position in 1945 to take
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