Can You Imagine?

by | Mar 8, 2026 | Uncategorized

So, President Trump wants to place a statue of Columbus on White House grounds.  It’s no secret that Trump wants to restore America’s traditional heroes and the Great Navigator not only opened the New World but propelled Western Civilization to global leadership....

Competing Legacies

by | Mar 1, 2026 | Uncategorized

The Jews are truly blessed.  Last September, the National Endowment for the Humanities, a government funded honeypot, awarded the Jewish nonprofit Tikvah $10.4 million to inform Americans how wonderful the People of the Book are.  It was the largest gift in...

WHEN IN ROME

by | Feb 28, 2026 | Uncategorized

I have long given up on American filmmakers ever doing justice to Italy on the screen. Granted, it’s hard for any filmmaker who didn’t grow up in a specific country to know all about its cultural or historical nuances, even routine things like the way...

What Ken Burns Left Out

by | Feb 24, 2026 | Uncategorized

Contrary to Ken Burns’ recent documentary on the American Revolution, it was a band of Italians, the ancient Romans—not the Iroquois—who served as the model for our fledgling republic. Those are Roman fasces mounted in the U.S. House of Representatives. Thomas...

Reflections on the Olympics

by | Feb 22, 2026 | Uncategorized

It was a Roman who penned the words everyone should live by: Mens Sana in Corpore Sano (“A sound mind in a healthy body”).  The Greeks invented the 4-year Olympics but the Romans made sports a daily competition.  When Italic settlers colonized...