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December 5 In History 63 BCE: Cicero read the last of his Catiline Orations which exposed Cataline’s conspiracy to overthrow the government of Rome. There is no record of how Cataline felt about Jews, but Cicero said that Judaism was a barbarous superstition...

On June 22nd 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II, Hitler struck east to invade the Soviet Union. It was a big affair; over three million German soldiers and three thousand tanks. In December of that year, four days after the...

1. Lessons from Brexit (Breitbart) – In Part One of this series, we chronicled a tale of two cities: the populist-nationalist Republicans in Cleveland, and the establishment—some would say elitist—Democrats in Philadelphia. Yes, it’s obvious that there...

In relationships, whether between persons or between countries, falling in love is a sure path to tragedy. To fall in love is to enter an intimate relationship casually, blindly. Falling into a relationship means failing to take the time to evaluate...

This is the conclusion to an All Things Considered series that imagines a counterfactual history of World War I. This year marks the centennial of the outbreak of World War I. What started as a beef between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Serbia unleashed...