While the Berlin Wall fell and Poland held its first free elections, 1989’s hunger for liberty did not stay confined to Eastern Europe. On the contrary, this desire for freedom bled into the borders across Eurasia and Latin America. In… Read More
In 1776, the global climate was defined by the Little Ice Age, a prolonged cooling period thatresulted in significantly lower average temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere. This eraof “climate instability” caused severe winters and advancing glaciers, creating a harshenvironmental backdrop… Read More
Freedom is the right to follow your conscience and to speak your mind, guiding your actions in a way that benefits society without infringing on the rights of others. All freedom comes from God because if we were a random… Read More
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”1 These famous words spoken by Martin Luther King Jr. have rung true since America’s founding. The birth of America was a fight to be independent from the rule of an unjust king, and the revolution unfolded before a watching world…. Read More
The U.S. Declaration of Independence is a key founding document of our country and has proven itself to be influential for nations around the world. It has helped shape U.S. leaders over the decades and has appeared as a reference in international freedom movements. The Declaration of Independence has inspired… Read More
In August 1980 in Gdansk, Poland, a young man jumped over a fence. His friends werecalling for him because the shipyard workers were organizing a protest against the communistregime, and they needed someone to lead their strike. Under his leadership… Read More
America was very powerful in the late eighteenth century and influential enough forpeople, worldwide to incorporate notions of the Declaration of Independence into their owncountries. Finalized on July 4th, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was and is an importantdocument. It… Read More
Since the Declaration of Independence was written 250 years ago, it has inspired nationalist movements and those working to extend the rights of man to all. From Simon Bolivar in Latin America to Gandhi in India, many have taken inspiration… Read More
Even a most perfunctory look at the history of warfare will tell you that throughout the course of civilization, from primitive man in the Bronze Age to the end of the twentieth century, and now in our twenty-first century, armed… Read More
In 1776, a group of American colonists declared that all men are created equal with inalienable rights and that governments are just only when they are by the consent of the governed. This declaration would be heard again in an… Read More
