Traditional Culture

Here I am writing about the new year two weeks in advance of the holiday, and as is the case with everyone else, each day brings a barrage of news ...

“I hear America singing,” the poet Walt Whitman once wrote. Given the pandemic shutdowns, a summer of riots ...

Most of us know some sort of barebones history about the origins of Thanksgiving, that three-day feast in ...

The year 2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims in the New World. It’s also ...

It is July 1620 in Southampton, England. Arriving into port is the Speedwell, a ship carrying a small ...

Nov. 11, 2020, marks 100 years since Britain’s Unknown Warrior was buried at Westminster Abbey in London, to ...

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War came ...

Sunlight filters through the branches of billowing trees. A cloudless cerulean sky and a warm breeze make it ...

Recently, the students at Gregory the Great Academy in Pennsylvania held their annual Robin Hood Days in a ...

Mexican company “Someone Somewhere” helps artisans literally make their way out of poverty, using their age-old traditional handicrafts. ...

Recently, a top American academic at a highly prestigious American university dropped me a line and said, “The ...

As the chill of autumn sets in, trees begin to  lose their vibrancy, and plants begin to wilt. ...

More than at any other time in our history, we live in an age of fraud and mendacity. ...

When I was a boy living in Boonville, North Carolina, population then about 600, I loved reading histories ...

JAMESTOWN, Virginia—“Jamestown,” says Dave Givens, director of archaeology at this historic site, “is the alpha of American history, ...

In Part 1, we investigated how progress is a false ideology intimately connected to a misuse of language ...

The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has now expanded its censorship from the internet, video, TV, and publications ...

Growing up, history was one of my favorite school subjects. This might come as a surprise to some. ...

In “Orthodoxy,” G.K. Chesterton wrote: “Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of ...

We get so used to some paradigms that we forget to ever question them. Perhaps the one I ...

Maybe you’re interested in teaching your children more about their country’s past. Maybe you’re a history buff looking ...

A sculptor told me recently that Sir Roger Scruton’s documentary “Why Beauty Matters” had a profound effect on ...

For many years, history as taught in our public schools has served as a political and ideological punching ...

Cathedrals and chapels have played vital roles in the development of Christian culture. As a scholar of the Bible, ...

Metaphor is a primary way through which we understand the world; we cannot really know what anything really ...

August 1945. My father-to-be, an Army sergeant and a combat infantryman in Italy, was on his way back ...

While visiting my daughter and her family in Elmhurst, Pennsylvania, I was standing in a line waiting to ...