France was in the news because the country’s top tennis player, Gaël Monfils (world rank no. 21), reached the final at Adelaide in a run-up tournament for the Australian Open, a good start for one of the most talented and…
It’s true. America’s troubles are due to lack of religion. And it’s not true as well. The wokists have little use for Christianity or Judaism or any other traditional religion, at least in the terms of their institutions and comprehensive…
There will be other commemorations of Napoleon Bonaparte down the road, on the occasion of his 250th this or that, but it is worth remembering, as Americans, that it is not necessarily a sign of pathetic nostalgia for a people…
The cancel culture is the guillotine of today’s Left. History shows the Left always resort to repression. The only brakes on their innate impulse are the extent of their power and the technology at their disposal. The limit of the…
In 1804, Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Ursuline Sisters to reassure them that the U.S. government would not violate their religious freedom. Allaying fears they had conveyed in a letter to him, Jefferson wrote that the “principles of the constitution…
Not far from Germany’s border with the Netherlands, nestled between the meandering Lower Rhine Valley and the sodden marshland engirdling the city of Kleve, lies an avenue of stately chestnut trees straight out of a Barbizon School landscape, a thoroughfare…
When the revolution broke out in France, it was not guided by a sense of restoring liberties that had been ignored, as was the case in England in the 1600s and in America in the 1700s. France had exemplified royal…
We may never know why Pope Francis chose to channel Robespierre and the slogan of the French Revolution, Liberté, égalité, fraternité, in his new encyclical Fratelli Tutti, but there is no denying that the chilling motto headlines section 103 of…
The Hollywood Left and its acolytes having played the old-white-man card and laid an egg, they’re trying the Marie Antoinette card. They will only deepen their misery. They are attacking our Republic’s lovely and gracious First Lady for improving the…
