Tag: history

Homer in an Age of Revisionism

Homer’s epics are foundational to Western civilization. Their reinterpretation should enrich our understanding of the classical tradition, not distort its historical and cultural legacy.

The Vanishing Anglo-Saxon

There is a peculiar rule in modern Anglophone public life: Every people can have a past, except the one that built the country.

Stop Queerwashing the Past

Lord Nelson is the latest victim of activist historians who think every historical figure was gay or trans.

Notre Dame Is Still Burning

Though the French retain a fair bit of cultural conservatism, the acknowledgement of its roots in Christian anthropology and transcendent moral objectivity is largely absent.