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3 weeks ago | 
intellectualtakeout.org | Jeff Minick
Despite differences in customs and circumstances, the rhythms of home and family life have remained remarkably unchanged in much of Western history. The Roman paterfamilias joined his family for their daily meal, told stories he’d heard on the street or from Rome’s history to his children, and worshipped the lares, or household gods, at the tiny altar in his home.
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3 weeks ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Jeff Minick
In this installment of ‘When Character Counted,’ we meet a warrior for a lost cause; a man whose courage and dignity won even his enemies’ respect. 6/6/2025Updated: 6/6/2025Throughout the summer of 1877, a band of the Nez Perce tribe engaged in a 1,170 mile-long flight and running battle with forces of the U.S. Army. Driven from their homeland in the Wallowa Valley of northeastern Oregon Territory, and led by several chiefs, they fled across the Idaho Territory.
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3 weeks ago | 
1819news.com | Jeff Minick
Despite differences in customs and circumstances, the rhythms of home and family life have remained remarkably unchanged in much of Western history. The Roman paterfamilias joined his family for their daily meal, told stories he’d heard on the street or from Rome’s history to his children, and worshipped the lares, or household gods, at the tiny altar in his home.
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3 weeks ago | 
intellectualtakeout.org | Jeff Minick
When it comes to children, we’re more than ready to acknowledge that screens have had a negative impact on their well-being. Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” is proof. As of April, that book had spent 52 weeks on the New York Times’ best-seller list. But when it comes to screens and adults, we’re less willing to acknowledge our problems.
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3 weeks ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Jeff Minick
Unsettled hearts and restless feet have spurred Americans in their quest for new lives across oceans and state lines throughout history. 6/2/2025Updated: 6/2/2025Most of us learned the stories in elementary school. In 1607, a band of entrepreneurs and adventurers settled in Virginia, naming their settlement Jamestown in honor of their king.
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4 weeks ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Jeff Minick
In this installment of ‘When Character Counted,’ we learn that Charles Lindbergh demonstrated his love of country at the risk of his life. 5/31/2025Updated: 5/31/2025On any average day this year, approximately 1,800 flights will cross the North Atlantic Ocean. Back and forth the aircraft fly, carrying passengers, cargo, and military personnel. A hundred years ago, that sky was empty of everything but clouds and birds.
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4 weeks ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Dustin Bass |Barbara Danza |Mark Lardas |Jeff Minick
By Dustin Bass, Barbara Danza, Mark Lardas and Jeff Minick5/29/2025Updated: 5/29/2025MysteryThis week, we feature a fun mystery that’s a great beach read and a foundational work on economics that everyone can benefit from.By Emily SullivanIt’s the turn of the 20th century. Minnie Harper is an English widow who lives on the Greek island of Corfu with her two children. They moved there when her late husband retired from the British foreign service.
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4 weeks ago | 
1819news.com | Jeff Minick
On Memorial Day weekend, I visited my sister and her husband in Hooper’s Creek, N.C., which is just south of Asheville. While driving around the area, including parts of South Asheville, I found plenty of the scars and still-gaping wounds inflicted by Hurricane Helene last September. In several places along I-26 and other major highways, there were enormous hills made up of limbs and tree trunks. Along Hendersonville Road were numerous abandoned buildings in ruins.
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1 month ago | 
1819news.com | Jeff Minick
When it comes to children, we’re more than ready to acknowledge that screens have had a negative impact on their well-being. Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” is proof. As of April, that book had spent 52 weeks on the New York Times’ best-seller list. But when it comes to screens and adults, we’re less willing to acknowledge our problems.
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1 month ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Jeff Minick
During World War I, more than 880,000 men fighting for Great Britain died, that constituted 6 percent of the male population and over 12 percent of those engaged. The peak of these horrendous statistics occurred during the first day of the on July 1, 1916, when the British suffered 57,000 casualties, including 19,240 dead. One of those who fell in this bloodbath of a war was John Kipling (1897–1915), the only son of writer and poet Rudyard Kipling and his American-born wife, Caroline Balestier.
