More than forty years ago, on August 28, 1963, a quarter million people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial.…
Christmas Eve, 1941: Sergeant Sidney Stewart was preparing American troops to leave Manila to fight the Japanese in Bataan. Working…
Last week, President Bush took part in ceremonies commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 uprising against its Soviet occupiers.…
A century ago, the German sociologist Max Weber wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. In it, he argued…
Earlier this year, Britain’s Channel Four aired a two-part special entitled “The Root of All Evil.” No, it wasn’t about…
If I were to tell you about an ancient document that sheds fresh light on Christianity, your first reaction might…
Despite “bombing with most critics,” The Da Vinci Code is doing well at the box office. In its first weekend in theaters it…
It was February of 1945—three months before the end of World War II in Europe. Eighteen-year-old Sergeant Joseph George of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, was…
A recent cover of Newsweek magazine jarred me. In bold type across the face of the magazine cover were these words: “Freud…
During the Cold War, there was a great clash of civilizations—communism vs. Western liberal democracy. And it threatened to destroy…
