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Some souls shine like stars in life--and blaze even more brightly in death, defying the darkness that abhors their light and seeks to extinguish it. And yet the stars, steadfast in their courses,

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 ...

Donald Trump is the first mythic hero of the twenty-first century. That many recoil at this statement does not deny its obvious truth. Heroism isn't about winning a popularity contest. The moder ...

Earlier this month, the hashtag #trumpisdead went viral on X, and the term "TRUMP DIED" earned millions of likes and views online. Anonymous left-wing social media accounts likely planted ...

The ancient Romans expanded their power and influence by treaties, alliances, and wars, eventually controlling the Italian peninsula, assimilating the neighboring Etruscan culture to the northea ...

As night followed night during 1940-1941, civilians and civil defence teams across Britain were confronted by shocking sights and sounds. The spine-tingling, stomach-churning wail of air raid sirens.

As the Supreme Court wraps up its annual flurry of blockbuster rulings, it's easy to focus on the winners--the parties who prevailed, the doctrines that triumphed, the justices whose views ...

September 2025 marks 85 years since the start of the Blitz, the systematic attempt by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany to bomb Britain into submission from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941. 'The Blitz ...

August 8th marks 80 years since the dawn of the atomic age. This is a story about two cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and two remarkable men: Jacob Beser and Tsutomu Yamaguchi. Beser, a First Lieutena ...