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As America faces unique modern challenges, divisions have heightened to a level not seen since the Civil War. The founders of the country and heroic figures — from Christopher Columbus to Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and even George…

The following is an excerpt from Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America. The New Left of the early 1970s knew they could not mount a violent revolution against the government. Not if they wanted to be successful. They could no…

Oct. 23 is the 40th anniversary of the Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, which killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors, 58 French paratroopers, and several civilians. The attack — conducted in the name of Islamic Jihad and perpetrated…

A controversial Oct. 5 article in Science Magazine claims to confirm a 2021 study of human footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico that suggested humans were in North America about 23,000 to 21,000 years ago, and thus several…

I was first exposed to an alternative history of Christopher Columbus, who we celebrate this Monday, reading Marxist historian Howard Zinn’s epochal A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present. “When we read the…

Few today know much about the real Christopher Columbus, an exemplary figure worthy of celebrating for many reasons. He was born in 1451 in the port city of Genoa, now part of Italy, named Cristofor Colombo. It has been said he chose to…

Oct. 9 will mark 56 years since the death of Cuban guerrilla Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Apparently, it does not matter that he helped the Castros create an authoritarian regime that now supports the oppression of hundreds of millions of people…

The late conservative cultural critic Roger Scruton once remarked, “Not everything Marx said was wrong.” Such a statement from Sir Roger, a man who dedicated his life to combatting Marxism — both in its totalitarian Soviet form and in its…

Whatever happened to the literal children of the figurative father of our nation? For all of George Washington’s renown, his descendants have become all but forgotten. Our first president had no biological children, but he and Martha raised…

The Washington Post on Aug. 15, 2023, in a story by Mariana Alfaro, writes about Bill Kristol’s launch of “Republicans for Ukraine,” which is using a $2 million ad campaign “to get congressional Republicans to commit to…