Warsaw and Lodz: A Tale of Two Cities
One of the 19th century’s most famous poets, Lord Byron, compressed into two lines of immortal verse an essential truth about how self-respecting...
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Free Markets, Deregulation, and Blame
Free markets, in the full sense of the phrase, exist only in the minds and imaginations of free-market economists from the Austrian School,...
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Pope Pius XII: Hero in the Unmaking
The word “hero” so often conjures up images of the brash and the bold. We may think of Audie Murphy’s WWII exploits, the...
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1960: A Year That Changed America
The lives of most Americans in 1960 were markedly different from a decade earlier in at least one significant respect. A great many...
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Nullification in a Nutshell
The “Principles of 98,” as they came to be known, are rarely discussed in modern history lectures even though these are integral to...
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Valentine Tribute to Sir William Blackstone
Most people identify February 14 with Valentine's Day, a holiday confined mostly to the red end of the spectrum and filled with chocolate,...
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The Crusades: When Christendom Pushed Back
The year is 732 A.D., and Europe is under assault. Islam, born a mere 110 years earlier, is already in its adolescence, and...
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Martin Luther King: The Celebration of a Myth
NAACP chairman Julian Bond said last week that the Dr. Martin Luther King we celebrate is an “anesthetized” version of the man who...
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The Killing Field at Malmedy
Forty-five years ago, former SS troops gathered by the thousands. Old friends emerged from self-inflicted obscurity. Many, intent on still concealing their less-than-positive...
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Nixon Library Releases Cache of Presidential Papers
It wasn’t just Oval Office tape recordings that Richard Nixon wanted to get rid of. According to documents made public last week, the...
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John Colter: The First Mountain Man
The sinewy, bearded man raced up the brushy hillside, blood streaming from his nose from the terrific exertion. He did not consider himself...
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The King Still Works for Uncle Sam
Great legends are often built on the ashes of someone's destruction — whether figurative or literal. Competition is often a zero-sum game. One...
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Forgotten Influences of the Founders
Our own Founding Fathers were convinced, and history has proven them prescient, that they were building a new and everlasting republic that would...
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1914 and Christmas: What Might Have Been
As Americans come to dread the increasingly bromidic nature of the festive season (where, that is, they are still allowed to celebrate Christmas...
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George Washington’s First Final Farewell
A generation after George Washington’s Christmastime farewell to his troops and to the Congress who commissioned him in 1775, Clement Clarke Moore penned...
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