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“I feel sorry for McKinley,” noted a contemporary observer. “He has a man of destiny behind him.” This phrase gave…
By the time he became President of the United States at the age of 42, Theodore Roosevelt had already been…
Valentine’s Day, 1884 was supposed to be a triumph for Theodore Roosevelt. Only in his 20’s, he had already been…
Men are struggling today. Pound-for-pound, they’re worse off than their female counterparts (who have their own problems, too). These struggles…
Once upon a time, Roman Reigns was a struggling hero. Clearly inhibited, he was condemned to play a character he…
After reading Quintus Curtius’ Digest, I was inspired. After seeing the complete failure of our “leadership” in response to the…
Despite its aspirational pretensions, science is an enterprise just as subject to orthodoxy, hierarchy, social desirability bias, and ass-covering as…
In the early books of the Iliad, when Achilles withdraws from the Greek army in rage, Diomedes emerged as the…