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What a 700-year-old Fresco can teach America

There are moments when history reaches across the centuries with startling clarity. Standing in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy, and looking at Ambrogio Lorenzetti's "Allegory of Good and Bad Government," I had one of those moments. Nearly 700 years old, the series of fresco paintings includes a depiction of a bustling city that illustrates the effects of good government, as well as representations of the decay that results from arbitrary and unjust rulers. The visual treatise on political economy holds important lessons for us today. Lorenzetti's city isn't thriving because its ...

Call of the Vile: Mayor Pete gets swatted, and so does America

Everything about President Donald Trump's Independence Day-eve speech at Mt. Rushmore was a much-unneeded reminder that the personification of crude, self-glorifying narcissism occupies the White House as we celebrate our 250th birthday. He chose the venue to suggest, not subtly, that he deserves to be etched on a mountainside along with -- God help us - former Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln, rather than, say, incarcerated. Trump cast himself as a great president, naturally, rather than inarguably our worst, one who has debased not only our image but ...

Don’t let Marxists rob us of our history

To conquer a nation, first rob it of its history and heroes. That's a quick summary of Marxist strategy. President Donald Trump used the 250th-anniversary celebration of our nation's independence to call out communism as the gravest threat we face, and to warn that Marxists are trying to cancel our heroic founders and attack our longstanding values. "You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist, or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both," he told the Mount Rushmore audience. He's right. Under communism, there are no heroes -- only ...

Sinner claims another Wimbledon title

LONDON — A year ago, it was a matter of bouncing back after wasting three match points in a devastating loss to Carlos Alcaraz in the French Open final and showing that he could still win a Grand Slam after a three-month doping ban. This year it was about demonstrating that he still has ...