A community in so many ways defined by reinvention butting up against land prized for its preservation...
Month: January 2019
The humble sea turtle became the pinnacle of haute cuisine in the eighteenth century. From calipash to calipee, the green...
Political extremism seems to have spread to both sides of the Atlantic. By Dr. Jon X. Eguia...
The GOP has absorbed selected aspects of her rhetoric and larger aims of the libertarian purists. Ayn...
This was a stunning new phenomenon that shocked most of the older leaders of the Revolutionary Era....
Ruins of ancient Thebes A team of four men could produce 3,000 mudbricks per day. By Dr. Steven Snape...
Who were the Sumerians? Where did they originate? Who were the Sumerians? Where did they originate? For...
Russians have been charged with interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. If true, it’s not an...
When the German parliamentary building went up in flames, Hitler harnessed the incident to seize power. By...
High culture played an important political role in Hitler’s Germany. References to music, history, philosophy, and art...
Privilege was the beating heart of that society of orders known as Bourbon France. Privilege was the...
The politicization of the French peasantry before and during the Revolutionary period has been the topic of...
Archaeologists and historians suggest that humans were living in Afghanistan at least 50,000 years ago, and that...
Long before the arrival of Alexander the Great on India’s north-western border, there are references in early...
Edmund Randolph was the seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United...
Setting Precedent: The First Senate and President Washington Struggle to Define “Advice and Consent”
Setting Precedent: The First Senate and President Washington Struggle to Define “Advice and Consent”
Our Constitution and the governmental structure that it created have weathered crises, adapted to change, and stood...
Despite their common interests, relations between the foreigners and the Chinese community grew more tense during the...
Canton’s foreign quarter, sited between the city wall and the river, fit comfortably into the classic design...
Machiavelli’s earlier book, Discourses on Livy, displayed strong support for free speech, a republican form of government, and compromise....
Comparing the different approaches towards artistic activity of Plato and Aristotle. By David OrozcoProfessor of PhilosophyPontificia Universidad...
Fictional characters, unlike laudanum-addicted impostors, never really die. A handsome youth with shoulder-length golden hair sits in...
In ‘Peasant and Nestrobber’, Bruegel was engaged with the troubles of his time. Abstract Pieter Bruegel the...
The Drug War is responsible for a cycle that creates more violence and higher profits for drug...
This 15th-century mystic turned her hand to brewing the bubbly, and she wasn’t very successful. By Karl...
By looking at drug addiction from an evolutionary perspective, we may understand its underlying significance and evaluate...
Thousands of years before their collapse, severely soggy conditions lasting for many centuries likely inhibited the civilization’s...
Extensive trade networks connected the Maya to the rest of Mesoamerica, producing the dynamic landscapes and bustling...
Christian Zionism is an often-overlooked example of the powerful role Christians and Christian institutions play in US...
Looking at some of the direct results of the Christian belief in God-sanctioned dominion. By Paul KivelEducator...
In 1811 a former slave named Henry Christophe anointed himself ‘First Monarch’ of the ‘New World.’ For...