When Dwight D. Eisenhower stepped down from his generalship as the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe following the Second World War, he became the President of Columbia University. During his short tenure at the university, a professor approached him and extolled the virtues of European scientists at the institution, to which Eisenhower queried, “They may […]
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The year is 1901, and the British Empire rules the waves. The small island nation’s maritime empire crisscrosses the globe, governing over twenty-five percent of the world’s population. As a blue power, Britain’s national strategy is to protect its trade networks, ensure freedom of navigation for its merchants, maintain the balance of power in Europe, […]
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When one observes a map, it often tells a story. If an individual viewed a map during the Second World War, the Atlantic was the centerpiece, with Europe and the United States on either side. Following Great Britain’s decline and America’s rise, the United States stood front and center, with the Pacific and the Atlantic […]
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The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has done it again. This is the group that effectively drove former Harvard president Lawrence Summers out of office over a 2005 remark of his about possible differences between the sexes that didn’t sit well with hard-line feminists on the Harvard faculty. The FAS voted its “lack […]
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