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While we may assume that we are currently in the most profoundly and rapidly changing era of humankind, the century spanning from 1450 to 1550 A.D. stands out as a period of such deep and interconnect ...

In Noah Hawley's Fargo, a fictional tale of pervasive crime and tested loyalty, Kansas City mafia hitman Mike Milligan ponders the following:

Donald Trump put things at the center of conservative politics. Since the 1950s, conservative intellectuals have championed individual liberty, limited government, and free markets as integr ...

This is not a dream. It isn't some nightmare from which we can awaken to find our friend alive and well. No. This is a hero's tale - one of a brave knight on a perilous journey who e ...

Stock markets around the world are surging because of two things: an expected interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve and an AI investment boom. But neither of these things necessarily signal actual ...

On December 7, 1941, Americans awoke to a quiet Sunday that would end in war. Sixty years later, on another unremarkable morning, I walked into my unit to sign in. By the time the second tower fell, t ...

Americans love to be outraged. Our identity is endowed with a consistent distrust, if not vitriolic animosity, towards both government and the conditions detrimental to everyday life which the governm ...

As President Donald J. Trump sends National Guard troops to help reduce crime in the nation's cities, lessons from Edmund Burke, a prominent conservative politician in Britain during the 18th-ce ...

822 years ago, on August 1st of 1203, crusaders looked on as an elderly blind man and his irresponsible son were crowned Roman Emperors in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, the capital of the Christ ...

Theodore Roosevelt felt antsy amid the 1904 campaign season. He was up for reelection, but the inexhaustible TR couldn't hit the trail. Custom dictated that a sitting president not activel ...