1. Icebound: The Story of Shackleton's Antarctic Voyage
(Archive/Features)

Frank Worsley, his muscles tensed and his face etched in grim determination, tossed uncomfortably in his sleep. In his mind surreal images tormented him. Giant blocks of ice tinged with a primordial ...

2. The Constitution and the Fate of the Nation
(News/Blog)

... his socialist policies. Concerning these, as Gingrich correctly notes, we have a profusion of "czar positions to micromanage industry," fundamentally disrupting basic property rights. We have nationalized ...

3. Immigration Policy Run Amok
(News/Blog)

The Empire strikes back — at common sense. A man in Derby Line, Vermont has been arrested for crossing the street. The town is perched precariously on the border with Canada. On one side of the street, ...

4. Trust Me, I'm a Conservative
(News/Blog)

“Trust me, I’m a conservative.” That, apparently, was the message from Atlantic online blogger and columnist Andrew Sullivan during his appearance on the Colbert Report on Comedy Central on Nov. 3. Sullivan ...

5. Obesity Meme
(News/Blog)

Last night O'Reilly had on his show some bubble head blonde named MeMe who, masquerading as an NGO, is fighting what she would like you to believe is a moral crusade of some sort against obesity. She has ...

6. Gore Vidal and the Decline of America
(News/Blog)

... is everything. In that, Americans blinded by political affiliation have progressed no farther than the Roman and Byzantine citizens who rabidly supported either the Blues or the Greens. Or, to put it in ...

7. In Defense of Conservatism in the Obama Era
(News/Blog)

Over across the pond today, in the now irrelevant dried and hollowed out husk of what remains of the British Empire, blogger Michael Tomasky, in the virtual pages of the Guardian newspaper's online edition, says ...

8. Sparta and the Battle of Thermopylae
(Archive/Features)

Frank Miller’s graphic novel, 300, which appeared in theaters on March 9, 2007, put the climactic battle between the ancient Persians and the Spartans on the big screen with startling special effects. ...

9. The Lessons of Ancient Rome
(Archive/Reviews)

In The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic, author Steve Bonta examines the lessons of the growth and decline of the Roman state in the centuries before the Empire. THE RISE AND ...

10. The Fall of the Roman Empire
(Archive/Reviews)

Oxford historian Peter Heather has reexamined the fall of Rome. His 2006 book, The Fall of the Roman Empire, holds many lessons for today. THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: A NEW HISTORY ...

11. The Fall of Rome
(Archive/Features)

... and afterwards, as their Bishop, he brought them Christianity, albeit of the Arian variety. All had been well, it seemed, until recently. The Roman town in which he now resided with a small band of Goth ...

12. Religion and Civilization
(Archive/Features)

... of Western civilization, this was thought to have been accomplished by the gods, or, by God.      The most ancient laws of Rome, for instance, were said to have been given to the Roman king through divine ...

13. Duranty’s Lethal Lies
(Archive/Features)

... the elaborate Satanic rituals Crowley dubbed “the Paris workings.” These rituals were designed to evoke the Roman gods Mercury and Jupiter, whose analogues in the Greek Pantheon are Hermes and Zeus. The ...

14. How A Ruler Ought to Govern His State
(Archive/Opinion)

... then pointed out that the renowned Roman orator had said much the same thing in his On the Laws. “[I]t is not so mischievous that men of high position do evil — though this evil is bad enough in itself ...