The United States has, time after time, gotten involved in foreign affairs that did not initially involve the country. For example, we were not a prominent factor in either World War until the president and congress decided to make the country more involved and chose a side. This wasn’t ...
The USA did not want to renew the civil war, therefore send General George C. Marshall to bring the two sides together in December 1945. He managed to sing a truce between them but it broke down in early 1946. The Civil War started. Guomindang seemed stronger because their military power...
Why did Mao Zedong kill so many people?China Under Mao:Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was the first leader of China following the success of the Communist Revolution in 1949. Initially Mao modeled China's communist revolution on Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union; however, relations with the Soviet Union ...
She did not enjoy the experience: apparently, I hadn’t warned her that it would be three hours long, and none of it in English.) I thought a lot about the irrevocability of time, how the present moment sometimes stops spinning in wheels and opens up like a sinkhole beneath us, to ...
billionaire who did not live lavishly on his own but spent vast amounts of money on a wife whom he loved dearly till the day she died. He had it all, wealth, family, AND happiness. The average person meeting this man would never have an idea of the amount of wealth this man created...
See also: Evidence for Jesus, Did Jesus Exist? [2][3], Why I am not a Christian (a must read), the Christological Argument, Hitchens – Core of the Jesus myth and Christianity is Immoral (both must watch). “Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own fathe...
We love laying an egg.) But Trump invented this virus; he cooked it up in the strange secret lab inside his head. We just copy and pass it on. Infected. Transfixed. How did a country as conservative as the United States ever manage to elect a man as utterly weird as Donald Trump?
I had that 2020 conversation in early April when everyone thought the quarantine would last a few weeks to “flatten the curve.” I figured then we would miss a month or so of school. Little did anyone know… In spite of the longer break from school and the problems with the pandemic,...
If Republicanism isn’t about opposing the Federal Income Tax and the Federal Reserve System, just what did the party ever stand for to begin with? When it comes to foreign policy, the last century is one of “Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace”. Taft speaks directly to this point: ...
For all its well-deserved exceptionalism—and itiswell-deserved—America is also an exceptionally violent country with an exceptionally violent history. The Americas were violent before the Europeans arrived, and got even more so once they did. The settlers fought and conquered the native inhabitants...