On November 22, 1963, three icons of the 20th century died: John F. Kennedy, Aldous Huxley, and C. S. Lewis. People of my generation remember where they were when the news came of Kennedy’s assassination. (I was in 7th grade study hall.) Other traumatic public
Donald Trump announced a series of executive actions that he will put in place on his very first day in office. From Trump announces executive actions for Day One – POLITICO: President-elect Donald Trump released a recorded video message to the nation Monday evening, in which he
A researcher has found ancient inscriptions in Egypt that he claims are Hebrew transliterations of Egyptian hieroglyphics. These would constitute the world’s oldest alphabet–representations of sounds, not ideas or words as in Egyptian writing–and the predecessor of later Hebrew letters. Moreover, this finding, if true,
Hispanic martyrs put before the firing squads by socialist dictators would call out as their last words “Viva el Cristo rey!” Long live Christ the King! Or, Christ the King lives! That’s a good phrase to keep in mind. Yesterday was the last Sunday of the
There was more to the purge of Chris Christie and his allies from the Trump transition team than was apparent on the surface. And it wasn’t just because Christie put the father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in jail. There were actually sound, presidential reasons
We keep hearing that we will soon become a “majority-minority” country in which whites will no longer make up most of the population. But that does not mean what most people think it means. Historian and social scientist Philip Jenkins, who did much to popularize
The “progressive” worldview assumes that society is getting better and better. That is to say, history is on an inexorable march towards “progress.” Thus, those on the left are fond of saying some one they oppose is “on the wrong side of history.” This leads to
The Wikileaks e-mails of Democrats’ correspondence show that the Hillary Clinton campaign feared running against the more mainstream Republican candidates such as Marco Rubio. So they launched an effort to legitimize the candidacy of Donald Trump, the assumption being that he would be perhaps the
Donald Trump, rich guy that he is, has said that he will not take the $400,000 salary that comes with the presidency. Instead, he will just take $1. George Washington made the same pledge to serve without a salary, but the new Congress insisted that
It’s common to associate Augustine’s Two Cities with Luther’s Two Kingdoms. But they are really quite different. In The City of God, Augustine defines the two in terms of two different loves: The City of God has to do with the love of God; the
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