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…
Let’s play a game of make-believe. Suppose that tomorrow the Philippines were to band together, send delegates to Davao, and draft a document detailing all the reasons they resented being a de facto outpost of the American empire. (READ MORE:…
The Constitution was designed to give government only a limited range of powers. Yet, government, today, wields a seemingly endless measure of power over the people. It’s time to ask: How limited was limited government meant to be? The framers of the Constitution…
With the election of a self-declared “lesbian Marxist” to be its new president, the American Library Association (ALA) gave away the game. Now, only the naïve can think of the ALA’s upcoming “Banned Books Week” as a celebration of free…
Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters, an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church-USA (PC-USA), recently treated a Unitarian Universalist congregation to a fiery sermon. Was it about heaven, hell, salvation, and the need to repent and believe the Gospel — messages…
It’s the Fourth of July. Time for another celebration of America’s truly iconic holiday celebrating the Declaration of Independence. But it should also be a day to remember the very first Fourth, a full 247 years ago — which decidedly…
A small internet kerfuffle kicked up several days back when conservative talker Jesse Kelly tweeted out something of an eye-opener, saying we’re destined for dictatorship and that it’s what we deserve. Let me tell you all an uncomfortable truth:…
Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother By Craig Shirley (Harper, 368 pages, $30) “My great age, and the disease which is fast approaching my vitals, warn me that I shall not be long in this world….
There is very little left in this country’s current events that is surprising. The news is a waterfall of effects the causes of which are well-known — from countries departing from the U.S. dollar as their medium of exchange, to…
