This year marks the 25th anniversary of “Life is Beautiful,” an endearing movie that “offers the possibility of hope in the face of unflinching horror” – in this case, the Holocaust. It won three Oscars, including Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor. The internet movie site IMDB includes the Italian film in the comedy, romance,...
Below are a few of the stories that caught my attention this week. The left’s fascination with canceling American figures — including the author of our Declaration of Independence — continues. The inability to contextualize history is a scary ideology and reminds me a little of the Khmer Rouge and their utopian quest for year...
The rewriting of history is reaching new and absurd levels if World War II can be blamed on the Allies and not the Axis powers.
I’d like to address the “woke” movement, or whatever people are calling it. I’m not speaking of racism, or sexism, or gender inequality. Those are significant issues that should — and must — be addressed, though separately, critically, and exclusively. I’m speaking, rather, of this oncoming crazy train, its boxcars and tenders overfilled with ideas...
The story of a 12th-century English king offers valuable lessons in today's anti-historical climate.
It doesn't make sense to pretend that now-tainted events never took place.
News organizations need to exercise consistency when pointing to past actions that public actors would rather forget.
Who better to help fool the first-class troops of a dangerous enemy than a first-class storyteller?
Far too many people today view the Civil War as if it were a morality play, an action movie, or a series of cartoons.
Editorial page writers need to understand it's not enough to get their news just from the mainstream media echo chamber.
What, pray tell, does my scintillating nighttime reading about the olive-oil markets of Gaul and bathroom graffiti in Pompeii have to do with public policy in North Carolina?
