Geoffrey Clarfield

In 2007 New York City-based professor and economist William Easterly published his intentionally provocative book, White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. In it, he argued that after…

Today we commemorate the birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore, born on Oct. 24, 1784, and who passed away peacefully in England on July 28, 1885. He was more than 100 years old at the time of his death. Montefiore is…

I have read about the Coliseum of Rome since I was a pre-teen interested in Roman history and civilization. I had never visited it until this evening, and it was an accident. All the pictures and photos that I have…

Scholars have regularly argued that the Founding Fathers of the United States were well versed in the history and thinking of the ancient Roman and Greek world, as well as the thought and history of the Jewish people as expressed…