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They witnessed the defeat of the Ottoman Turks at the siege of Vienna, ending a thousand years of implacable Islamic expansion.
It is important to follow the lead of both Applebaum and Fitzpatrick in standing firm in pursuit of the truth, whatever it might be.
For Aristides, Rome was the ultimate polis: the dispenser of just government, and through its unique constitution the embodiment of principled republicanism.
Many Russian people lived through the Soviet experience. Not so for the Confederacy.
Donald Trump’s first major speech in Europe reminds me of the old Jewish joke in which two men ask a rabbi to resolve a dispute.
Trump’s speech highlighted these key aspirations, and struck the right notes, for his intended audience—the socially conservative.
Most of the praise comes only from Classics teachers, or others easily impressed by a thin veneer of learning.
The Culture Wars and Beyond is an exemplary study: thorough, balanced, judicious, elegantly written, and all the better for its notably even tone and scrupulous sense of fairness.
All the European powers combined didn’t manage to kill that many people throughout all Asia during their entire colonial histories.
Those already familiar with the deformations that these terms represent may take note of the supercilious attitude that permeates the turgid passages in which they appear.
As time went on, once-unquestioned assumptions about free speech and due process were attacked into oblivion.
From an evolutionary perspective the current domestic political crisis can thus be understood as an aftershock of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The term propaganda has its origins in the 17th century efforts of the Catholic Church to propagate its views and stem the rise of Protestantism.