The Turning Point: 1851 — A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Knopf, 368 pages,…

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This article was previously published at Founders Ministries, the Aquila Report, and the author’s blog. There are two gravesites I…

I don’t follow British politics closely. But it’s clear enough that the Conservative Party in the UK isn’t very conservative….

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When Ralph Waldo Emerson lost a useful amount of his income in the banking panic of 1837, he wrote a…

London There is the musty smell of a police state here in old London, or should I say an inchoate…

Shockingly, New York and London, two world-famous cities of similar population sizes, currently have equivalent murder rates. The glaring differences…