Grantian Florilegium

Throughout all of human history this is a truth that men have taken into account as they have dealt with one another, as they ha...

In his brilliant dystopian novel, 1984 , George Orwell perfectly and presciently described the kind of doublethink and doublespeak we hav...

Exactly one month before he was assassinated, on this day in 1981, Anwar Sadat attempted to appease the Islamic fundament...

After having failed to sail from England on three earlier occasions and leaving behind her sister ship Speedwell , the Mayflower...

When the esteemed Senate Majority Leader, Henry Cabot Lodge, addressed his colleagues on this day in 1919, the nation was alre...

"Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through a station: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet ne...

"Tradition  means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refus...

This summer  I'm running 500 miles, biking 1500 miles, and swimming 13 miles--along the way, I'll be joined by some of my friends...

“The study of everything that stands connected with the death of Christ, whether it be in the types of the ceremonial law, the...

On June 9, 1776, the Continental Congress accepted a resolution of Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee to appoint a committee to draft a d...