By a strange coincidence Jefferson and his old rival John Adams both died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—July 4, 1826. On the evening of July 3, Jefferson was in bed, his life ebbing rapidly. "This is the Fourth?" he whispered
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Shortly before he left the White House, Roosevelt, planning a big-game hunting trip to Africa, heard that a famous white hunter was visiting Washington. He invited the man to come along and give him some advice. After a two-hour tête-à-tête the hunter cam
Continue reading >>As the world's big central banks are due to make announcements over the next couple of days, you're likely to hear a lot of chatter about what they're up to, and why. And a lot of that chatter will be nonsense.
Continue reading >>The sixtieth anniversary of the "end" of the Korean war saw President Obama attempt to rescue that classic example of interventionist failure from history’s dustbin.
Continue reading >>Myth: Most of the Founding Fathers were Deists who believed in keeping religion completely out of the government. The United States was not founded as a Christian nation, but as a secular nation where any and every religion was to be tolerated. Truth: Co
Continue reading >>Here is a simple but fundamental question, which was at the heart of the Iraq war controversy: how is the global village to run and be governed? It’s the hidden basis of the political conflicts in the UN over Iraq and similar issues.
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