Soviet President Brezhnev, one of the last of the Soviet Communist dictators, hated the Catholic Church, according to conversations reported in The Wall Street Journal. Back during the Cold War Brezhnev is quoted as saying, "Sooner or later [the Church] would gag in...
History
Remember Flight 93
Flight 93 should be remembered for many reasons. Foremost is that it was the first victory in the War on Terrorism, though it came at a high price. The terrorists' plan depended on the passenger's common assumption that their temporary cooperation with hijackers would...
Independence Day and American History
On this, our great national holiday, let us rededicate “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor” to the greatness of America.
The Reagan Legacy
Ronald Reagan was one of our most successful Presidents in part because he fervently believed in, and acted on, a small number of important principles. To be sure, he knew how to compromise to advance his legislative agenda. But in the process he always kept sight of his essential principles.
Black History Month: Celebrating Race-Based Achievement is Racism
The unchosen physical characteristics that make us automatic members of one race or another must always come secondary to those characteristics that we do choose.
The State of the Discipline of History
An excerpt from the afterword of the second edition of The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past.
George Washington’s Birthday
For many of the politically correct today, it is enough to dismiss George Washington because he was a dead white male.
What We Should Remember on Martin Luther King Day
What should we remember on Martin Luther King Day? In his “I Have a Dream” speech Dr. King said: “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Australia’s “Original Sin”: Why Prime Minister Howard Should Not Apologize to the Aborigines
The 2000 Olympics opened last Friday (15.Sept.00) in a "splendidly diverse and inclusive" (New York Times, editorial, 17.Sept.00) portrayal of Australia. The symbol of the aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman carrying the Olympic flame in its final stage "shined a...
America’s Heritage of Economic Liberty
For the Founding Fathers, economic liberty was inseparable from the case for political freedom.
Self-Sacrifice Not Selfishness Caused the Holocaust
A genocide like the Holocaust will happen again unless the world learns the root cause of the Nazis’ evil — self-sacrifice.
Happy Birthday Ayn Rand!
With the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand’s position in history — both as novelist and philosopher — was established.
The Christopher Columbus Controversy: Western Civilization vs. Primitivism
We must recognize that everyone is a sovereign entity, with the power of choice and independent judgment. That is the ultimate value of Western civilization, and it should be proudly proclaimed.
The Big Lie in Hollywood: The Hollywood Ten Were Not Victims But Villains
Selling “The Big Lies” helps Hollywood to keep alive the fantasy that the Left is the victim rather than the perpetrator of injustice.
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