What a little-known work of Tolkien can teach us.

A few months into the killing fields of World War I, soldiers reclaimed their shared humanity. Those who found hope amid chaos offer a lesson for us today.

Ancient wisdom to save our republic.

Look to Venice, once the publishing center of the world, for an early example of vigorous open discourse now being pushed aside in Europe and elsewhere.

To Benjamin Rush, if liberty and equality were the birthright of every human soul, then slavery must be the enemy of the American Revolution. 


Biden’s frailty harkens back to the 1945 Yalta Conference, where the sick and feeble Roosevelt was no match for Stalin.

Lessons from one observer of campus chaos decades ago ring even truer today.

Following the Boston Massacre in March 1770, the Massachusetts lawyer and patriot Josiah Quincy, Jr., joined John Adams in defending the British soldiers involved.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, passed 75 years ago today, issued a bold challenge to the Soviet Union and all tyrannies. That challenge stands.

On Sept. 15, 1939, two weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to his publisher to explain why he didn’t expect to make much progress on his new story about hobbits.