Engineering Oblivion: Eugenics, the Remaking of Man and Unmaking of Morality
The year is 1941, and the Nazis are in the midst of their Lebensborn program. Men of pure Aryan stock — especially members...
History
This Day in the Constitutional Convention of 1787
Thursday, August 16, 1787. The State House in Philadelphia was hot, hot, hot. The...
Real or Imagined? A Critical Review of the SPLC’s List of Conspiracies
The indefatigable Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), whose professed aim is "fighting hate and...
The Ancien Régime and Obama — The More Things Change …
The Telegraph’s Nile Gardner, a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst for the British newspaper, has...
Sir Thomas More: God’s Servant First
There is, if you will, an arresting scene in A Man for All Seasons,...
University of Virginia Digitizes Papers of James Madison
The Rotunda at the University of Virginia announced last week that the university’s collection...
James Madison and Limited Government
Famed Roman orator, the silver-tongued Cicero, once noted, "It is valuable to look to...
Railroads, Robber Barons, and Unbridled Capitalism
When Matthew Josephson wrote The Robber Barons in 1934, he tipped his hand as...
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Deporting Illegal Immigrants
Pardon me, but if I hear one more time that we can’t deport 12...
Glenn Beck: History Vindicated Joe McCarthy
Fox News host Glenn Beck aired an extraordinary program June 24 explaining how the...
Kent State and the Perfect Coup
In May 1970, news was made at Ohio's Kent State University when campus police...
Where Else But Armenia? World’s Oldest Leather Shoe Found
In the country of Mt. Ararat, where the Bible says Noah’s Ark rested when...
Mithraic Mysteries and the Cult of Empire
The proud Roman general stood with his commanders and retinue as the wild hillsmen,...
Amtrak and the Railroads
Amtrak and its lobbyists at the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) recently invited...
Fear & Fatal Power During the Time of Pompey
Since the days when Mark Antony’s grandfather patrolled the coasts of the Mediterranean searching...
All for Naught: The Battle of Peleliu
Studs Terkel called World War II the “good war.” If any war could be...
Intergenerational Welfare, a.k.a. Social Security
Item: The New York Times for March 22 reported: “Now that landmark legislation overhauling...
John Barry: True Father of the American Navy
Who was the “brilliant child of the wind and waves” who fired the inaugural...
Warsaw and Lodz: A Tale of Two Cities
One of the 19th century’s most famous poets, Lord Byron, compressed into two lines...
Free Markets, Deregulation, and Blame
Free markets, in the full sense of the phrase, exist only in the minds...
