T. S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land, published in 1922, four years after the end of World War One, is probably the most influential and controversial poem of the past century.

I’ve heard it said that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. I’ve also heard that people these days are pretty stressed out, and I have to wonder if that’s because we’re all being so damned vigilant.

A list of Presidents with Congressional, Military or Law experience and a breakdown of who had family ties to the White House, and more.

Given that 2025 marks the 160th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War, it seems appropriate to consider one of America’s statesmen, Ulysses S. Grant and his highly regarded Personal Memoirs, written neck break speed, as he was rapidly dying from tongue and throat cancer.

Armed conflicts around the world generate large numbers of refugees.

The most dangerous people in the world are those with no sense of humor.

Longevity is no particular virtue, although healthy habits enhance its prospect.

Given her painful loss to Donald Trump, surely the most unfortunate of Kamala Harris’ verbal tics was her frequent celebration of “what can be, unburdened by what has been.”

The root story of our United States is not inscribed by the ink of institutions but by the bold strokes of individuals who dared to dream of a better tomorrow.

College students today – even students at elite colleges such as the Ivy Leagues – are not equipped to read full books, as Rose Horowitch’s recent Atlantic essay “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books” revealed.

Legend has it that a crowd had gathered outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia as the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention were concluding in 1787.

For better or worse, education can shape who we are, and Thomas Jefferson knew that.

America and the world have changed enormously since the first thanksgiving 353 years ago. From a tiny coastal enclave on an untamed continent, we have grown into the mightiest, freest nation in human history.

Most histories are written about events that have actually transpired, unless they are fanciful “alternative histories.”

It seems that we sometimes forget the long struggle and the hard-won gains of the social rights movement.

Of all the subjects at the forefront of this year’s presidential campaign, we do not hear much about foreign policy.

Nellie Bowles, author of Morning After the Revolution (2024), loves San Francisco.

A few years ago now, Sheryl Sandburg of Facebook wrote a book called Lean In, which I certainly did not read, since I am a respectable academic and people like me do not read best-selling self-help books by business gurus, especially when the business is social media.

If you want to understand our contemporary politics and culture, you must have a working knowledge of the major revolutions of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Since the populist surge that gave us Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump, politics in the Western world has polarized into a distinctive stalemate