As every school child knows, the Pilgrims arrived in the New World in the winter of 1620. After a difficult…
On Monday, the House of Representatives surprised its leaders, the administration, and, most of all, the financial community by rejecting…
It’s St. Patrick’s Day, and instead of focusing on all things Irish, like drinking beer or wearing green, let’s ask…
One hundred million people: that’s how many died under the oppression of Communism. Those victims have too often been ignored…
A colleague of mine owns at least eight complete recordings of Handel’s Messiah. His collection includes “historically accurate” performances and more…
Since its publication in 1859, tens, if not hundreds, of millions of people have been killed in the name of…
More than forty years ago, on August 28, 1963, a quarter million people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial.…
Christmas Eve, 1941: Sergeant Sidney Stewart was preparing American troops to leave Manila to fight the Japanese in Bataan. Working…
Last week, President Bush took part in ceremonies commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 uprising against its Soviet occupiers.…
A century ago, the German sociologist Max Weber wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. In it, he argued…
