Who knew?  Who knew that the Gothic Cathedrals of Europe, so deeply associated with christianity, were in fact inspired by Islamic...

It was the beginning of new era in the history of mankind. An otherwise ordinary man in ancient Egypt named Moses, had a meeting with...

Before presenting my review, I would like to report some good news that sheds light on our world of darkness.  In the wake of the...

Can the world know lasting peace without equality between men and women? “Sex and World Peace,” by four acclaimed scholars (Valerie M....

When I was in college as in the early-1970s, the the heroes of the Journalism Department were Vietnam reporters Neil Sheehan, Malcolm...

In the second century A.D., Roman emperor Hadrian commissioned the building of a temple to commemorate the gods of all the planets. Mind...

The Pantheon is brilliant in its simplicity, a combining of the circle and square, with man as part of the equation. “The Pantheon:...

It was some contest, and it was some prize. The contest was finding a way to stand an egg on its end. The prize was designing what...

In some ways this book is as fantastical as “The Travels of Marco Polo.” It’s a disturbing account of the Chinese Communist Party’s...

Too much salt can kill you. Not enough can kill you, too. Until recent times, when modern geology literally unearthed the earth’s...

Perhaps the most iconic photos marking the end of the Soviet empire feature the dramatic images of protestors breaking down the Berlin...

It’s the stuff of fantasy, not unlike the world of Alice in Wonderland, or of Dorothy in the Land of Oz, or of the time traveler in The...

When “Inside the Third Reich” by Albert Speer, arrived in bookstores in 1970, the Vietnam war was raging unabated. In an interview with...

It was a glittering array of talent. Vice president Lyndon Johnson was deeply impressed. After attending his first Cabinet meeting he...

"England is a nation of shopkeepers." Thus spake Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte wasn't being complimentary. It was a put-down, his way of...

Book Review: The Infidel and the Professor, by Dennis C. Rasmussen The “infidel” is David Hume and “the professor” is Adam Smith, two...

It took a year-and-a-half of waiting in anterooms, of personal humiliations, of lobbying the government for official recognition, and of...

Who was Vaclav Havel? He was a leading figure in the "Velvet Revolution", that propelled Czechoslovakia to Independence from the Soviet...

Reading the book of Isaiah is particularly apropos during the Christmas Holidays, since it has so much to say about the coming of the...

Normally, I read books about constitutional law, history, and biographies of historical people. However, I was in the mood for something...