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  • Words and Play: The Delights of Language
    Words and Play: The Delights of Language
    Like spices in our recipes, language can liven up our senses. In his blurb to Willard R. Espy’s “An Almanac of Words at Play,” writer and once longtime host of ...
    September 2, 2021BY Jeff Minick
  • NTD International Piano Competition: A Lifeline After the Chaos
    NTD International Piano Competition: A Lifeline After the Chaos
    The jurists of the New Tang Dynasty International Piano Competition are classical musicians as well. They are pianists ...
    August 19, 2021BY Catherine Yang
  • Beethoven: Immortal and Beloved
    Beethoven: Immortal and Beloved
    Ludwig von Beethoven is inarguably one of the greatest composers Western civilization has ever produced. The staying power ...
    August 16, 2021BY Meredith Carroll
  • The Spirit of Jade: Its Sacred and Noble Status in Chinese Culture
    The Spirit of Jade: Its Sacred and Noble Status in Chinese Culture
    Jade is a beautiful stone that suggests water-like fluidity and kindness. Beyond its delicate yet firm texture, it ...
    July 30, 2021BY Ann Lin
  • Valley of Death: The Civil War and the Shenandoah Valley
    Valley of Death: The Civil War and the Shenandoah Valley
    Travel down I-81 through the Shenandoah Valley, and you’ll find this corridor jam-packed with attractions: numerous caverns, a ...
    July 28, 2021BY Jeff Minick
  • Germany’s Oldest Porcelain Palace: Rastatt Favorite Palace
    Germany’s Oldest Porcelain Palace: Rastatt Favorite Palace
    Rastatt Favorite Palace, located near Baden-Baden, Germany—where Romans discovered healing hot springs—served as a pleasure palace for the ...
    July 18, 2021BY Phil Butler
  • As Politics Dominate Mainstream Culture, Country Music Fans Turn to Branson, Missouri for Traditional Songs
    As Politics Dominate Mainstream Culture, Country Music Fans Turn to Branson, Missouri for Traditional Songs
    As “wokeness” invades multiple facets of American life, from Hollywood stars bailing out rioters to pushes for critical race theory in public ...
    July 17, 2021BY Jessica Marie Baumgartner
  • The ‘Ladies’ Château’: Château de Chenonceau
    The ‘Ladies’ Château’: Château de Chenonceau
    If there was ever a monument of architecture dedicated to the feminine soul, Château de Chenonceau should be ...
    July 12, 2021BY Phil Butler
  • Still Under Siege: Armenians and the Churches of Nagorno-Karabakh
    Still Under Siege: Armenians and the Churches of Nagorno-Karabakh
    In 1965, I was an eighth grader at Virginia’s Staunton Military Academy, a school now long defunct. One ...
    July 7, 2021BY Jeff Minick
  • New York Met Museum’s European Masterpieces Visit Down Under
    New York Met Museum’s European Masterpieces Visit Down Under
    New York's finest treasures, including five centuries of European Masterpieces, are now on display in Queensland, Australia in ...
    July 6, 2021BY Jessie Zhang
  • Blooming Again: Marie Antoinette’s Private Garden Is Restored at the Palace of Versailles
    Blooming Again: Marie Antoinette’s Private Garden Is Restored at the Palace of Versailles
    At a certain time of year, American visitors ambling around the grounds of the Palace of Versailles can ...
    July 1, 2021BY Lorraine Ferrier
  • The Dangers of Imagination Without Borders
    The Dangers of Imagination Without Borders
    Use your imagination—compare the modern monsters Godzilla and King Kong to the ancient monsters Pegasus and the Chimera. ...
    May 24, 2021BY Sean Fitzpatrick
  • Recurrents: The Story of Faust Through History
    Recurrents: The Story of Faust Through History
    In the rich tapestry of Western civilization, certain themes and stories keep recurring. They mark our culture’s continuity ...
    May 22, 2021BY Stephen Oles
  • British Museum’s Ancient Greeks Treasures Coming to Australia and New Zealand
    British Museum’s Ancient Greeks Treasures Coming to Australia and New Zealand
    The British Museum's treasures of Ancient Greece are coming to the National Museum of Australia, the Western Australian ...
    May 21, 2021BY Victoria Kelly-Clark
  • The Many Meanings of Marriage: Centuries-Old Wisdom 
    The Many Meanings of Marriage: Centuries-Old Wisdom 
    So that they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not ...
    May 14, 2021BY Ann Lin
  • Principal Dancer Elsie Shi Communicates Truth Through Art
    Principal Dancer Elsie Shi Communicates Truth Through Art
    The first thing that captivated Elsie Shi about classical Chinese dance was the flips—the way dancers looked as ...
    April 23, 2021BY Catherine Yang
  • When Knighthood Was in Flower: A Brief History of Chivalry
    When Knighthood Was in Flower: A Brief History of Chivalry
    In my adolescence, my friends, my brother, and I often pretended to be knights. Our shields were metal ...
    April 21, 2021BY Jeff Minick
  • A Question of God, Part 2: The Subtle Intentions Behind Satan’s Questions
    A Question of God, Part 2: The Subtle Intentions Behind Satan’s Questions
    We saw in our previous article that the fact that God in the Bible asks questions does not ...
    April 14, 2021BY James Sale
  • Listening to History: Songs of the Civil War and What We Can Learn
    Listening to History: Songs of the Civil War and What We Can Learn
    Throughout American history, our wars have either popularized or produced songs that remain familiar to us today. The ...
    April 13, 2021BY Jeff Minick
  • A Window Into Thomas Becket’s Life, Death, and Miracles
    A Window Into Thomas Becket’s Life, Death, and Miracles
    It is Dec. 29, 1170, at Canterbury Cathedral in southeast England, one of the most important places of ...
    April 2, 2021BY Lorraine Ferrier
  • ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’: The Postmodern Struggle for the Mythic
    ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’: The Postmodern Struggle for the Mythic
    The legions of keyboard warriors and hardcore comic-book fanboys finally have their victory over the Hollywood horde of ...
    April 1, 2021BY Sean Fitzpatrick
  • The End of Education
    The End of Education
    The school should always have as its aim that the young man leave it as a harmonious personality, ...
    March 31, 2021BY Sean Fitzpatrick
  • A Question of God, Part 1: Why Does God Ask Questions?
    A Question of God, Part 1: Why Does God Ask Questions?
    St. Augustine observed long ago that “whatever appears in the divine Word that can be referred neither to ...
    March 27, 2021BY James Sale
  • Japanese Cherry Blossoms: Spring’s Glorious Fleeting Celebration
    Japanese Cherry Blossoms: Spring’s Glorious Fleeting Celebration
    Bright pink cherry blossoms against a brilliant blue sky is a sight unlike any other in the world. ...
    March 26, 2021BY Cora Wang
  • Japan’s 2nd Buddhist Temple: Horyuji
    Japan’s 2nd Buddhist Temple: Horyuji
    From 594 to 622, Prince Shotoku ruled Japan. He certainly lived up to his name, for "sho" means sacred ...
    March 21, 2021BY Epoch Times Staff
  • NTD International Piano Competition Opens 2021 Application Period
    NTD International Piano Competition Opens 2021 Application Period
    The New Tang Dynasty (NTD) International Piano Competition has announced the details for its sixth competition to be ...
    March 16, 2021BY Catherine Yang
  • Coming Home to Ireland’s Lost Harp Tradition
    Coming Home to Ireland’s Lost Harp Tradition
    One of the most enduring of sounds, synonymous with the Emerald Isle, is that of the dulcet Irish ...
    March 13, 2021BY Lorraine Ferrier
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    NY Governor Announces Federal Help Approved as Ida Leaves Trail of Damage
  • Rocket ‘Terminated’ in Fiery Explosion Over Pacific Ocean
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    Rocket ‘Terminated’ in Fiery Explosion Over Pacific Ocean
  • Biden Admin Releases $65 Billion Plan to Handle Future Pandemics
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    Biden Admin Releases $65 Billion Plan to Handle Future Pandemics
  • Chinese COVID-19 Vaccines Under Spotlight After Woman Censored for Posting About Death Following Sinopharm Shot
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    Chinese COVID-19 Vaccines Under Spotlight After Woman Censored for Posting About Death Following Sinopharm Shot
  • Apple Halts Plan to Scan Child Sex Abuse Images in iPhones
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    Apple Halts Plan to Scan Child Sex Abuse Images in iPhones
  • As Reports Come in of US Citizens Still in Afghanistan, GOP Reps Question Numbers Quoted by Biden Admin
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    As Reports Come in of US Citizens Still in Afghanistan, GOP Reps Question Numbers Quoted by Biden Admin
  • California School Board Faces Backlash Over ‘Far-Left’ Teacher
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    California School Board Faces Backlash Over ‘Far-Left’ Teacher
  • Biden Issues Executive Order Directing Release of Some 9/11 Documents
    12hr By Jack Phillips
    Biden Issues Executive Order Directing Release of Some 9/11 Documents
  • Former Patriots Wide Receiver David Patten Dies at 47
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    Former Patriots Wide Receiver David Patten Dies at 47
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