While the weathly and powerful are coddled with public largesse, the rest of us are thrown into...
Year: 2019
America’s elected leaders haven’t ignored equality since 2000. They’ve made it spectacularly worse. By Sam Pizzgati The...
As Leonardo da Vinci found centuries ago, scholars of art, design, engineering and science can work together...
Dead five centuries, Leonardo retains a rock star’s fame, well known around the world by just one...
It was a frequently stated virtue of Roman emperors, and was personified as a deity—Virtus. Virtus was...
In philosophy, the notion of virtue played a central role in ethical theory up until the Enlightenment....
In the 17th century, early modern European medical theory had an impact upon Islamic medicine through the...
The Mongol invasion of Iran began in 1219, after two diplomatic missions to Khwarezm sent by Genghis...
Private contractors are particularly well-suited to slip between jurisdictions, because they don’t typically have a fixed employee...
The armies could have involved over 100,000 men on either side who came from all over Europe....
To reach this elevated status became more and more challenging as the Middle Ages wore on. By...
After freeing the Zealots from the Temple, the Edomites and Zealots massacred the common people. Introduction The...
A literary alternative to the murderous, supersessionist versions of the story that animates the site. Given the...
On the dead end of prohibition. We live in a time of change, when people are questioning...
Before marijuana was legalized, people argued over how it would affect taxes, crime and teens. But only...
She used her skills as a teacher to become not only the first American female physician but...
The Migration Period is typically regarded as beginning with the invasion of Europe by the Huns from...
The empire of course had many great strengths, but one of the most important keys to its...
Astonishing new research shows that fossil teeth, like trees, contain detailed records of the environments in which...
What does the discovery of Homo luzonensis mean for our understanding of humanity’s history? This week, anthropologists...
Nearly eight-in-ten Americans (77%) say being a member of NATO is good for the United States. As...
Is it time to follow a new approach not constrained by historic precedent? John Bolton, President Donald...
Artists suddenly became soldiers on the front to win the hearts and minds of the American public....
President Wilson’s support for a new international system offered the first practical opportunity to create a universal...
The idea of using morality to target specific migrant groups first appeared in formal immigration policy in...
Spanish Presidios and Mexican Leather-Jackets in 1772. Spaniards responded to the unfolding story of the American Revolution...
Eventually, the entire Western Hemisphere would come under the domination of European nations, leading to profound changes...
In the 16th century, most maps were published in Latin and cartographers were just starting to record...
Johannes Gutenberg printed his first Bible in 1455, and the first published sailing directions appeared thirty-five years...
Military alliances are apt to dissolve when the circumstances that gave rise to them cease to pertain....