Our Saintly Competition

This week the Irish celebrate an Italic saint while we celebrate a Jewish one.  Modern Romanophiles still celebrate Matronalia, motherhood & feminism The Roman St. Patrick not only led the conversion of heathen Celts but taught them to read and write in...

Can You Imagine?

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

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

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

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...