If we look at the history of pandemics and fighting diseases, there may be one or two lessons we can learn. Some of the responses to threats like the Black Death just didn’t work, but they may be just the… Read More
Venezuela, the nation located at the northern tip of South America, has a long history of military takeovers and economic and political restarts. Long before it turned into a humanitarian crisis, Venezuela was a reasonably wealthy country due to its… Read More
Another tale of sacrifice that forces us to ask ourselves if we truly understand its meaning is a lot more recent than the story of William Mompesson. It took place during the WWII siege of Leningrad, which lasted 900 days…. Read More
The word sacrifice is loaded with power – but does everyone fully understand what it means? A recent NBC/WSJ poll asked participants if they thought the COVID-19 crisis was the most significant public tragedy faced by Americans. The survey listed… Read More
There are few countries more mysterious today than North Korea. This secluded dictatorship has isolated itself from the rest of the world, suffering from famine and poverty while it’s neighbor, South Korea, is wealthy and modern. Preferring to exert its… Read More
Like every other socialist experiment throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, price controls, production quotas, central planning, and totalitarian government were present in the Soviet Union. And, like all the other examples, widespread misery and suffering soon followed. The Soviets… Read More
February 14 has long been celebrated as a day of love. It is that special day when people exchange gifts, chocolates, cards filled with loving wishes. To most of the modern Western culture, it is a harmless holiday. However, in… Read More
Ten years ago, Zimbabwe stopped printing its own money because the currency had lost its value. The situation was so bad that people carried wheelbarrows of Zimbabwe dollars to buy a loaf of bread. Now, for the first time since… Read More
Technology has come a long way, but sometimes new inventions can tell us even more about the past than the future. Modern satellites have picked up images of one of the world’s oldest cities: Tell Brak. Although the area has… Read More
Former President George W. Bush recently opened a debate on the difference between non-interventionism and isolationism. He took a shot at President Donald Trump in a speech, saying, “an isolationist United States is destabilizing around the world,” and “we are… Read More
In September 2019, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia started a new visa program that will allow visitors from 49 countries to enter. Until then, most of the visas, which grant people from other countries the privilege to visit, were given… Read More