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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...

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...

On this, our great national holiday, let us rededicate “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor” to the greatness of America.

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.

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.

An excerpt from the afterword of the second edition of The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past.

For many of the politically correct today, it is enough to dismiss George Washington because he was a dead white male.

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.”

For the Founding Fathers, economic liberty was inseparable from the case for political freedom.

A genocide like the Holocaust will happen again unless the world learns the root cause of the Nazis’ evil — self-sacrifice.

With the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand’s position in history — both as novelist and philosopher — was established.

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.