A gaggle of Romans in Mel Brooks’s 1981 classic, “History of the World, Part 1” (Wikimedia Commons) When I lived in Philadelphia in my early 20s, my walk to work regularly took me past a statue of ...

We media types obsess about America's problems. But we should acknowledge that today, life in America is better than life has been anywhere, ever. For most of history, the norm was hunger, disease, ...

America’s debts — Revolutionary and Republican — to Rome resonate 250 years after Washington’s crossing of the Delaware. Mr. Iaconis is an author and educator who embraces Giuseppe Verdi’s dictum: ...