period of European history from the 5th to the late 15th-century
Victor Davis Hanson writes for American Greatness about an apparent historical regression. For most people, the story of the medieval world was one of cramped cities, constant violent crime, and…
Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon highlights one of the more unusual classes offered at one of America’s most prestigious private universities. Graduate students studying at America’s oldest university…
Peter Wood explains in a Federalist column how history seems to be repeating itself (my bad joke, not his) when it comes to the College Board’s treatment of European history.…
As Christmas approaches, the latest Newsweek asks in its cover story, “Who was Jesus?” UNC-Chapel Hill religious studies professor Bart Ehrman attempts to answer the question. As Christians around the…
Here are Hayek Cafe’s Quotations of the Day. I loved Cahill’s early books in his “hinges of history” series (How the Irish Saved Western Civilization and the Gifts of the…
Some years ago, it was said McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform wasn’t worth the effort to understand because the best of lawyers had differing interpretations thereof. Henry Waxman’s 2000+ page monstrosity,…
The Wall Street Journal reports that a Northern Michigan University professor has concluded that stock car racing has “a hidden past” as the paper puts it (emphasis is mine). “It’s…
Check out the Associated Press photograph of Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers, who wants to sue God for “ma[king] terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents, inspir[ing] fear and…
George, apropos of your new ankle-biter, no doubt you recall that we have witnessed effete, anti-intellectual assaults of the kind Vedder mentions, i.e., “simply attack them with ad hominem diatribes…
No matter the era, there are always inept users of a new technology.