Bicenntenial of Luddite Lawlessness
Is technology and industry good or bad? There is no moral answer to the question. Certainly there are happy men and women who...
History
Mitt brennender Sorge: 75th Anniversary of Encyclical Criticizing Nazism
Christianity has proven time and again to be the most resilient force against totalitarianism. This is as true in China today as it...
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The 150th Anniversary of American Ironclads Colliding
The American Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in our nation’s history, made all the more tragic by the fact that, with more...
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40 Years After the Infamous Shanghai Communiqué
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the infamous Shanghai Communiqué, the joint diplomatic agreement between the United States and the People's Republic of...
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Treason: Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, and the Constitution
Sunday, February 19, is the 205th anniversary of the arrest of the former hero of the American Revolution and Vice President of the...
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Dresden, Hiroshima, and Soviet Machinations
The anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden on February 13 and 14, 1945 has become an increasingly contentious memory for thousands of...
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Fifty Years After the Algerian War of Independence
Algeria — just west of Libya in northwest Africa — has been part of the civilized world since before Christ. In ancient times,...
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The 66th Anniversary of Tito’s Yugoslavia
The nation of Yugoslavia was a creature of the Versailles Treaty, first cobbled together out of the remnants of the old Austro-Hungarian empire...
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Recalling the Moscow Show Trials
Seventy-five years ago, on January 25, 1937, the terror known generally as the Moscow Show Trials entered its second phase. The first phase...
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Alger Hiss Conviction Highlighted Communist Subversion of U.S. Gov’t
The Soviet Union since its earliest days described the United States as the “main enemy.” The penetration of American government and society was...
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1982’s “Cold Sunday” and Global Warming
Thirty years ago, on January 17, 1982, America experienced the famous “Cold Sunday,” when temperatures in various parts of the nation plummeted to...
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Crazy Horse Memorial: A Tale of Two Stories Told in Stone
The Black Hills of South Dakota have long been associated with the four U.S. Presidents who adorn Mount Rushmore. The granite faces of...
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Recalling the Failure of Wilson’s “Fourteen Points”
On January 8, 1918, less than one year after the United States had declared war on Germany and its allies in the First...
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A Century of “Bolshevism”
Communism, for a long time, was simply “Bolshevism” in the western world. The Russian term means “majority” and it originated during the Second...
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Mainland China’s Last 100 Years: Free Republic to Communist Tyranny
There is little doubt that the nation of China has enormous potential and that Chinese civilization has had a profound influence upon the...
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