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Science breakthrough as Dead Sea Scrolls code ‘cracked’ to reveal biblical writings | History | News
A scientist believes he has cracked the writing system on the Dead Sea Scrolls after more than 70 years of mystery. The ancient 'Cryptic B' manuscript was made of heavily damaged fragments, covered in scripture of…
Laurence Cooper: A Christian nation?
Laurence Cooper is professor of political science at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. He is the author, most recently, of Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom: Rousseau’s Philosophic Life (2023, University of…
The real reason golden ages collapse—and how the U.S. can avoid it
While campaigning, President Donald Trump said, "We're a nation in decline." Now that he's president, the left agrees. "We are witnessing the collapse and implosion of the American empire," says…
Harvard Discounts Western Civ, While Embracing Discrimination
At Harvard University today, professors who teach Western history are history. James Hankins, a specialist in Renaissance thought, was one of the last holdouts. Now Hankins, who has just published a hefty book that teaches…
Why the progressive call to curb the judiciary could backfire
Writing recently in The Guardian, left-wing law professors Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn argue that progressives should stop trying to save the judiciary from being overrun by conservatives and instead make…
California Bureaucrats Threaten to Deny Water to 600K
In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss how California bureaucrats and environmental lawyers are threatening to blow up dams and deny water to 600,000 residents,…
This 1,300-page anticapitalist history gets a few things wrong
Capitalism: A Global History, by Sven Beckert, Penguin Press, 1,344 pages, $49 Adam Smith, widely considered the first major theorist of capitalism, abhorred the institution of slavery. "Whatever work does…can be…
The ‘Swamp Fox’ Who Changed War for a Century
A quarter of a millennium ago, a “Swamp Fox” and his rag-tag group of compatriots put the lion of the British Empire on the run—and changed how wars were fought on the North American continent for a century. This Swamp Fox…
Deep are the Hebraic roots
Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal published Rick Richman’s review of Jewish Roots of American Liberty: The Impact of Hebraic Ideas on the American Story, edited by Wilfred McClay and Stuart Halpern and published by…
Spider-Man’s co-creator was an Ayn Rand Objectivist
Of all the popular storytelling artists striving to emulate Ayn Rand, the most significant was Steve Ditko. Ditko, a comic book artist, is most famous for co-creating Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. Rand, in addition to writing…
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