Archive for June 2023
The United Nations: How Roosevelt’s Original Vision for the World Changed
TweetShareShareThe United Nations has been keeping international peace and protecting human rights for nearly eight decades. But was this its sole original vision? And what is the forgotten back story to the United Nations? The initial vision for an international governing body emerged in the mind of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In his day, the threats…
Read MoreAlexis De Tocqueville: The French Man Who Saw America’s Past, Present and Future
TweetShareShare “[It’s] the most comprehensive and penetrating analysis of the relationship between character and society in America that has ever been written.”[1] That’s how one historian described Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America; a work many consider among the most influential literary works of the 19th century. Published in two volumes between 1835 and 1840,…
Read MoreAmerica the Secular? Flipping the Script on the Founding of a Nation
TweetShareShareSince the 1980s, it’s been a popular refrain to refer to America’s founding as secular in nature. Proponents of secularism often use selective quotes to promote their nonreligious agendas (1). Many Founding Fathers are now considered “Deist” (read: agnostic, atheist). These include heavyweights like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine and George Washington. Perhaps we…
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