There are few books that I have read that have made huge impact on me, but I think Dr. Herbert Butterfield’s, “The Whig Interpretation of History” will be one of …
Category: 2016
I have always found the person of Napoleon fascinating. When I was in Paris last year, I went to a place called Les Invalides. There is a chapel there that …
Being a secret service agent means you have two primary missions: to protect the President of the United States and… to investigate financial crimes. What. Yes: the secret service was …
July 14th is not just the day this post was written. It marks a momentous event in the history of France: the storming of the Bastille. Known as “Bastille Day” …
Well my Roman history obsession continues. After starting the year reading SPRQ and Dynasty, I moved to acclaimed historian Adrian Goldworthy’s account of a unique part of Roman history: namely …
It is actually fortune that I write this post today, because July 3rd 2016 marks the 40th anniversary of Operation Thunderbolt. In late June 1976, a group of terrorists that …
Dr. Douglas Groothuis wrote this book as an introduction to philosophy, as the title suggests. He does this by examining, in detail, seven sentences that changed the way people think. …
If last year my historical obsession was with World War I, I think this year it is definitely ancient Rome. Already reviewing SPRQ this year, I have Holland’s “Rubicon” on …
Russian history has always been a preoccupation of mine, for some reason. I remember learning in high school about the rise of Napoleon and Hitler and how they both made …
“Sola Scriptura” was one of the central tenants of the Protestant Reformation. Literally, it means “Scripture Alone,” not ironically the title of this book. James White has written a unique …