Long before Communism, the Chinese had been considered “inscrutable”. Popular fiction of the late 19th-early 20th Century had portrayed them as possessing the most complex and cunning criminal minds, both for crime, Fu Manchu, (the creation of Sax Rohmer of…
(Columbia is a feminine form of “Columbus”, FYI) I’ll try to be brief and avoid the snark, but this is an idea whose time has come and could be a winning plank in the Republican campaign legislative agenda for 2020. It…
This will be a short training outline of the film “The Battle of Algiers” which I offered here a few days ago. It should also open your eyes to some modern beliefs about Islam that were not necessarily so the…
I doubt anyone here knows of Jean-Jacques Dessaline. He was the first president of Haiti after the former slave-island had defeated the army of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804, who had invaded the island with an army of 40,000 battle-hardened French…