Oh, I’m a communist,” said the 18-year-old, a little sheepishly. This young man was wearing a button with a symbol I didn’t ...

Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s masterpiece captures the folly of humanity’s desire to reach heaven on its own terms.

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Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...