Tag: Todays

Where are today’s Wallenbergs standing up to tyranny?

ON MONDAY evening, I watched The US and the Holocaust on Sky TV. It was one of a series of documentaries to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. It told the story of the Swedish businessman, diplomat and humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg, who was responsible for saving the lives of 4,500 Hungarian Jews during the latter […]

How Would Frederick Douglass Regard Today’s Left?

Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. This man began life as an illiterate slave — nearly all slave owners prevented slaves from learning to read — and rose from slavery to become, along with Abraham Lincoln, the greatest orator of his time, and one of the wisest and most eloquent […]

Ukraine: Today’s Sparta | The Oligarch Kings

The king with half the east at heel is marched from landsof morning;Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benightthe air,And he that stands will die for naught, and home there’sno returning.The Spartans on the sea wet rocks sat down and combedtheir hair. A.E. Housman, Last Poems XXV, The Oracles    As children at […]