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…
It’s the middle of the summer, and once more our thoughts turn to that special place in our consciousness we reserve for July 4. We will again celebrate what we have and how we got it. We may even argue…
If you believe that the weaponization of the justice system is a new phenomenon in American politics, you might need to reconsider. The American Left has been challenging the Founding Fathers’ vision of the American polity for centuries. On today’s…
A new cathedral spire has finally emerged from scaffolding nearly four years after flames engulfed Paris’s storied Notre Dame Cathedral in April 2019. Intense reconstruction efforts began immediately following the accidental blaze, which investigators attributed to either an electrical short-circuit…
If you’re at all familiar with the story of independence in South America, you likely know the name Simón Bolívar. The liberator-turned-dictator was almost single-handedly responsible for liberating the northwestern quarter of the South American continent. But Bolívar wasn’t the…
Anyone curious about what a “diversity-is-our-strength” infusion looks like has only to glance across the Atlantic at the rioting unfolding in France. Evidently, the widespread looting and destruction of property, the assault of a mayor and his family, and the…
Crowds have been flocking to the Metropolitan Opera to take in a heart-wrenching tale of religious persecution that continues into the next two weekends. Dialogues des Carmélites is one of the most well-respected operas of the 20th century. By opera…
Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age By Daisy Hay (Princeton University Press, 516 pages, $32) From 1760 to 1809, British bookseller and publisher Joseph Johnson (1738–1809) hosted a weekly dinner at his London home and…
Democracy emerged in the West as a consequence of secularization. Religion lost its privileged position in human life, we embraced material science and secular philosophy, and democracy began to take hold. Religion is imperious, intolerant of answers other than its…
