A lot turns on words. In Hebrew, today and millennia ago when the Bible was written, the word mostly used for slavery is ‘avdut. From that same root come words used to mean work, such as people do through their…
China’s constitution contains a list of conventional rights as impressive as anything in the West. Freedom of speech and freedom of religion are there, as they typically are in Communist constitutions after Stalin’s. It also has a clause that follows…
Erick Erickson, a popular conservative writer and talk show host, made a brief splash within right-wing circles Monday with a National Review op-ed and follow-up monologue about the Right’s alleged departure from limited-government, free-market principles. I don’t know Erickson personally,…
The U.S. Supreme Court will allow an Idaho pro-life law to stand following challenges from the Biden administration. The blocked Biden administration lawsuit would have required emergency room doctors to perform abortions on the grounds of the Emergency Medical Treatment…
Most people hate to speak ill of the dead. They look for something nice to say about even the not-so-dear departed. People’s natural imperfections usually seem to shrink when they leave this earth. Not so with Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, as…
Over four months ago, a group of senators sent a letter to the United States Department of Justice raising concerns about the reported “humanitarian crisis” continuously unfolding in jails in New York City, Miami, and Los Angeles. When the senators’…
Before the advent of Islam, Somalia was a land of demons and giants. There were no mosques back then, no minarets, no Sufi shrines, just scattered limestone cairns, called taallos, and mysterious caves filled with otherworldly depictions of giraffes and…
In the previous installments of this look back on the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, I have identified specific policy areas of failure that historians and FDR partisans ignore, downplay, or explain away in their infatuation with the nation’s 32nd president….
The classics are called classic because of their enduring value. A case in point: Plato’s several dialogues in which he records Socrates’ battle against the Sophists. The Sophists, you might say, were the swamp creatures of their day. They observed…
