I have read about the Coliseum of Rome since I was a pre-teen interested in Roman history and civilization. I…
Older and more mature now, in matters of the heart I have come to the same conclusion as Dave Barry,…
You’ve almost surely seen the famous photograph taken from space of the Koreas at night. North Korea is almost totally…
Dictators rarely have happy, quiet deaths surrounded by family and friends after a long, happy life. Instead, death tends to…
You might be forgiven for assuming that Italy, the cradle of Catholicism and Western Christianity more broadly, is a Christian…
When we think of Rome in the ancient world, we tend to think of the massive military empire that eventually…
Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World By Richard Cockett (Yale University Press, 464 pages, $35) A…
For someone who campaigned and was largely elected on the basis of putting an end to the illegal arrival of migrant…
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