The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in…
Karl Marx once famously commented that Hegel wrote that history repeats itself. Marx then supplemented this by noting that this happens the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. And it is perhaps ironic that this is nowhere more…
The Hill reports that China’s leaders have warned of a “impending crackdown” on massive protests against the communist regime’s rigidly enforced zero-COVID policy in several Chinese cities. A spokesperson for the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission pledged to “resolutely…
The news came on Tuesday. French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard, who with François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, and Éric Rohmer was a key figure of the New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) movement and a tremendous influence on such later directors…
At last week’s State of the Union address (SOTU), Representatives Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) disrupted. At one point, Joe Biden made a reference to potentially carcinogenic burn pits in military zones, and Boebert yelled that Biden caused…
Sophie Halberstadt was 26 years old and pregnant with her third child when she fell ill with the Spanish influenza. The tell-tale symptoms appeared on January 20, 1920, and worsened steadily over the next five days, just as the rain…
As we tear another sheet from our calendar, it’s time for us college students to head back to school. And for many members of the virtual-graduation generation, it will be our first time experiencing the real deal — unless the…
Go to Amazon and type in “Mark Levin American Marxism,” and you’ll find the No. 1 bestselling book in the country, with hundreds of reviews in mere weeks. Even more impressive, it’s rated 4.9 out of 5 stars. Clearly, something…
Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors has been in the news a lot lately because of controversy over her income and financial dealings, including recent purchases of several new homes. Cullors lashed out at these criticisms by protesting, “The fact…
