Westerners, Including Americans, have come to believe that our ancestors and cultural forebears were effeminate, egalitarian, multiculturalist liberals. Instead of watching Oliver Stone’s Hollywood propaganda or reading glossy disinformation books, we should be reading the great, untainted history books our forefathers used to read when our nation was still strong, with men educated on the classics. Don’t allow Hollywood to tarnish our idols by portraying them as degenerates and...
Sprawling over more than 17 acres atop a rocky promontory overlooking the arid, sparsely populated landscape of southern Armenia is the very ancient site known as Karahunj. Hundreds of configured stones towering six to nine feet tall have been thrust into the flinty earth. Forming an immense, oval configuration, they average 10 tons apiece; but the largest of their number is five times heavier. All were excavated from basalt quarries several miles away. Curiously, 84 of the 223 monoliths at...
Mention the name “Ulysses S. Grant” to most Americans at least slightly aware of their country’s history, and they will tell you he was a whiskey-sodden “Civil War” general whose post bellum presidency was notable for its corruption. But there is a lot more to this man, once America’s most popular president, when he took office, than the establishment would have you think. A review of certain incidents in Grant’s career may explain why his memory is regularly sullied by the modern...
During the War for Southern Independence, that great conflagration that was waged from 1861 to 1865, there were in the Confederate Army a total of approximately 1,050,000 service members. Of these 1-million-plus individuals, there were roughly 3,000 who were commissioned officers. Of these officers, there was exactly one who was female. Her name was Sally Louisa Tompkins. Here is her remarkable story—and also the story of Ella King Newsom, another angel of the Confederacy. Sally Louisa...
Walt Disney was an American icon, who personified the best of America with his films, television shows and theme parks. He represented beauty, kindness and inspiration to an increasingly troubled world; and his avuncular presence brought comfort and joy to the lives of Americans and others around the world. If there can be any true measure of positive human achievement in the 20th century, then Disney, an entrepreneur of unparalleled creative genius, would surely go down as one of the greatest....
Shortly Aafter Josef Stalin—born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili—threatened to disrupt the world financial markets by undermining the dollar-based monetary system established at the Bretton-Woods Conference, he was dead at the hands of his own top military and party leaders. But were Western intelligence agencies also involved in his death, and in the death of Lavrenty Beria, one of Stalin’s closest associates? In an article entitled “Why Stalin Was Murdered,” former KGB...
