When Allied troops landed on the beaches in Normandy, France in 1944, the objective was simple: Shut down the German threat so the U.S. could focus on the Pacific one. To most of us, Paris sounds like it would have…
Aug. 10 is Herbert Hoover Day, marked annually on Hoover’s birthday to remember the legacy of America’s 31st president. This year the day is especially notable as it also marks the controversial president’s 150th birthday. To most Americans, Hoover’s presidency…
We don’t often think about the way the internet works. We may have some vague idea that satellites handle it, or that somewhere there are lots of tiny cables involved, but how exactly information gets from London to New York…
The HBO series Rome is a drama that depicts the transformation of the Roman Republic into a Roman Empire. The show offers a glimpse into an ancient history that holds key lessons for the present. In today’s episode of The…
Today’s college aged Americans are probably the first generation in American history that knows less about important consequential things than their parents or grandparents. This was reconfirmed recently in a new study commissioned by the American Council of Trustees and…
Let’s talk about the word “revolution.” According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it has two meanings: one is “the action by a celestial body of going round in an orbit or elliptical course,” and the other is “a sudden, radical, or…
Okay, I know, maybe “perfect” is too strong a word. It’s certainly not a word that one writer uses lightly to describe another writer’s work, even that of a respected colleague on the pages of The American Spectator. But I…
Most Americans like to think of the Revolutionary War in terms of taxes — after all, the refrain everyone is taught in school is “no taxation without representation.” However, like many things in history, that’s a bit of an oversimplification….
June 6, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of “D-Day,” the Allied landings on the Normandy coast of France. We tend to make a great deal of decennial anniversaries, and this one, in particular, deserves a special salute. Given that the…
