America’s willingness to stand seems much weaker by comparison. The pursuit of instant gratification has transformed into a societal obsession with avoiding struggle and maximizing pleasure at all ...

Naturally, there are many zigzags ahead. For example, the western permanent members of the UN Security Council sent the junior diplomats to Sochi if any at all. But the senior ones in the Naturally, ...

Though the ancient city of Carthage is today a suburb of Tunis (capital of Tunisia), in Greek and Roman times Carthage was seen as the capital of a much larger empire called “Libya” (which signified ...

'Carthage must be destroyed'—the title of Richard Miles's book was the constant theme of the Roman statesman Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 B.C.). In the last years of his long life, Cato became ...

When a “purchasing group” won a ninety-five-million-dollar jackpot, the victory caused a scandal in a state where opposition to legal gambling remains widespread.