At Gutenberg this week, I'm formatting a biography of Alfred the Great by Charles Plummer (1902).  In the war-torn and squalid late 9th...

Gutierrez says evaluations of math skills can perpetuate discrimination against minorities, especially if they do worse than their white co...

Remember Paul Krugman after Trump's election? Something similar is shaking out of Brexit, which failed to result in the Brexodus of ...

Is this a peaceful path out of Venezuela's failed experiment?  Or will Maduro start massacres to prevent the humiliation? Never under...

He is also known of St. Thomas of Kent, where he died, as memorialized in Ivanhoe . “By my troth,” said the knight, “thou hast sung well ...

On December 18th, the WaPo published an article challenging the historical evidence for the existence of Jesus by Raphael Lataster, a histor...

In 1836, Rowland Hill was tasked by a Member of Parliament to propose a reform of England's cumbersome and expensive postal system.  He...

Newsweek establishes a winning formula: Trump’s rhetoric differs from that of Nazi Germany’s, most notably because he has never advocated...

No, really . When he drops the act, he proves to be a man of great intellect and education. No wonder he covers that up! It must make peo...

Today we are reaching back to 2014 for my favorite memorial post , with an Arthurian connection.

How we kept this feast last year seems worthy to me still.

It was less merry with my father gone and my mother moved away to be with my niece and my sister, but we did our best. I can tell that my...

G. K. Chesterton : “Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeate...

Headline: "Santa Claus Converts to Calvinism, Puts Everyone on Naughty List."

If the election is that momentous, the government is too powerful.  Jeffrey Tucker laments the early 20th-century triumph of Progressivism ...

But, as Rebeccah L. Heinrichs explains , it's not really a surprising one if you followed the Iran Deal closely. I've met Ms. Hei...

The Reverend Horton Heat did a whole Christmas album . If you have Amazon Prime, you can stream it for free; also on Spotify .