Traditional Culture

Metaphor is a primary way through which we understand the world; we cannot really know what anything really is except by way of comparing it with something else. Aristotle observed: ...

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 ...

In my later elementary school years, my family spent a week every summer in New Castle, Pennsylvania, visiting ...

NANTES, France—A major fire broke out in the cathedral in the western French city of Nantes on Saturday, ...

In my previous article on King Midas, we found that the Midas Touch proved to be a curse—the ...

In my kitchen is a coffee mug given to me by some students and inscribed with words once ...

PARIS—Notre Dame Cathedral will be rebuilt just the way it stood before last year’s devastating fire. No swimming ...

Every so often something happens in human history that has massive repercussions, implications and effects out of all ...

In the 2003 television pilot for “Joan of Arcadia,” a young man claiming to be God approaches teenager ...

From the beginning of human time, all peoples have known that there is a battle going on, and ...

Sometimes looking backward can show us the way forward. Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) was born into slavery in ...

As we know, there are seven deadly sins: anger, pride, envy, avarice, gluttony, lust, and sloth. But since ...

Wrapped in bamboo leaves, the pyramid-shaped sticky rice dumpling, or the so-called Zongzi in Chinese, opens people’s imagination ...

The title song for the 1960s film “Alfie,” starring Michael Caine, had the opening line: "What's it all ...

In ancient China, there was a cook for the royal court who went back to his hometown with ...

In May of 1940, 80 years ago this month, German tanks and troops were racing through France, defeating ...

What are we going to say or think once this lockdown is over and this pandemic is subdued? ...

The rhinoceros horn was an imperial treasure, yet it might just be exactly the ingredient needed to cure ...

When Xin Gongyi took up his new post as governor of Minzhou, he was deeply troubled by a ...

In her online article “Nation’s Report Card: Only 15% of Eighth Graders Know Much About U.S. History,” Susan ...

Amid a deadly epidemic in his hometown, when people were either abandoning their afflicted homes or desperately fleeing ...

It is a fairly safe guess that our forebears, blessed with less information but more fantasy, wisdom, and ...

Back in January, before COVID-19 bolted the doors to my public library, I entered the vestibule and saw that ...

Into this season of pandemic, quarantine, and hardship comes Passover. The Jewish celebration of Passover derives from Exodus ...

When we look at the world today, we see a world of trouble, turmoil, and an increasing sense ...

Abigail Adams was one of only two first ladies who were both wife and mother to a president. ...