<img alt="El Greco, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons" captext="Public domain" src="https://images.americanthinker.com/au/auvpb0lbzgxrjalju3yb_640.jpg">Image: Public domain. The myth of Laocoön is tragic. In vain, he…
<img alt="Peter Paul Rubens, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons" captext="Rubens" src="https://images.americanthinker.com/wp/wphxg69vtyltvudgr4jl_640.jpg">Image: Public domain. The Thirty Years’ War was hard on…
<img alt="Annibale Carracci, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons" captext="Public domain" src="https://images.americanthinker.com/zp/zpmfzf20ttucyogew0cj_640.jpg">Image: Public domain. History is linear, of course,…
<img alt="Peter Paul Rubens, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons" captext="public domain" src="https://images.americanthinker.com/3g/3gmhadlypvi6vbfbzzpa_640.jpg">Saturn devouring one of his sons, by Flemish artist…
<img alt="Public domain" captext="Public domain" src="https://images.americanthinker.com/rm/rmxar52ezszrpjqgieo6_640.jpg">Image: Public domain. In the spring of 1989, while Eastern Europe prepared for liberation,…
<img alt="Théodore Chassériau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons" captext="Théodore Chassériau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons" src="https://images.americanthinker.com/tu/tujmlph9lfnesrs9u3px_640.jpg">Since the…
A long time ago, Charles Martel, uncrowned ruler of the Franks, led his Christian army to victory over the forces of Arab commander Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi at the Battle of Tours (October 10, 732 C.E.).The defeat of the Muslim invaders,…
Attention to the actions and stated or inferred motives of others has survival value in a group setting. If it is wildly exaggerated, however, fueled by an unfounded mistrust of others, paranoia is present. To be (severely) paranoid is to…
How rich and wonderful Christendom could have been. A miracle of aesthetic sublimity and principled ethics. As a matter of fact, a world much like this did once exist: A world in bloom.Around the time, when Theodosius I issued the Edict of…
Long ago, they were dystopian fantasies. To imagine a world with the night sky lit up by burning cathedrals. A world of Christians fleeing for their lives in plundered, smoking landscapes. A broken Europe suffering the same fate as…