They say that learning a foreign language alters the brain or, to use the term favored by soulless materialists, rewires it. In fact, contemporary scientific opinion has it that multilingualism boosts gray matter, increasing the number of neurons in the brain, and heightens the vitality of white matter, increasing the speed at which their impulses travel.
At the very turning of the Millennium, the most powerful ruler of Europe was obsessed with ancient Rome.
So, just in case there are any curmudgeons out there, please tell us ONE thing that is wrong with the American people. By concentrating on one issue, no matter how small, we might be able to get to the bottom
Four years before his victory at the Lech, Otto decided to involve himself in Italian affairs. It would be a mistake to regard Otto’s invasion of Italy as a completely cynical move.
One night when I was young, foolish, and poor – some qualities that are yet mine own – I was on a Metro-North train from Grand Central Station in New York to New Haven, Connecticut, where I lived after university.
This is the first part of a revised and expanded essay on the politicization of Christian Holy Days.
This is a first draft of a haphazard list of books used over the years. It will be corrected and amplified as time goes on, and new sections will be added.
Still in the early stages of planning a Fall Program in Italy, we are seeking advice, opinions, and preferences from readers who are interested in attending.
We have received news from Jerry Brock of the death of our friend and colleague James Patrick.
You are 30 minutes from a Russian nuclear bomb detonating over your head and atomizing you and your family. And the risk of that rising sharply the past two years is why Biden is by far the worst president in U.S. history.
