(The featured art is from the British magazine “Punch” in September, 1914, and it reads “God and Women our Shield!”) World War I began in August, 1914, with an invasion by Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany into France, essentially to finish a…
Category: Natural Law
To be American, American Exceptionalism and Assimilation- How Things Worked
I think there is a general misconception of just what assimilation means to the ideal of “to be American”. To understand American exceptionalism you must first realize that it was created by the American people, not scholars nor political theoreticians. It…
Reprisals and the Killing of Civilians in War
“In Belgium there are many towns whose cemeteries today have rows and rows of memorial stones inscribed with a name, the date 1914, and the legend, repeated over and over: “Fusille par les Allemandes” (shot by the Germans). In many…