The term "elitist" has been bandied about so promiscuously in this election cycle that it's become virtually content-free.

Aren't righting wrongs and remedying injustices just what the anger of the anger candidates' supporters want? 

Cardinal Robert Sarah is one of the adornments of the Catholic Church, although it's very unlikely that this man of faith, humor, intelligence, and profound humility would appreciate my putting it that way.

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was proclaimed by Chairman Mao Tse-tung (as he was then spelt) on the 16th of May, 1966.

History was made Friday February 12, 2016 in Havana. 

The West was caught unprepared by the rise of Islamic State, as it was a decade and a half ago by the attacks of al Qaeda and as the Soviet Union was by the determination of the mujahedeen of Afghanistan in the 1980s.

Henry Ford is often quoted as saying, "History is bunk."

Don't believe the headlines. The battle continues.

When I was a junior in high school, I read Shirley Jackson's great short story "The Lottery," and I will confess that her narrative still haunts me.