State of the Union: The new trade route between India and Europe, through the Middle East, marks the return to a historic norm.

History shows that there are few slopes so slippery as the descent into political violence.

State of the Union: General Mark Milley channels his inner Vegetius.

The sexual chaos and idolatry conquered by the early church has come roaring back -- and today's Christians don't know what time it is

Rome

In decadent Rome, an aging art critic rides the success of his one, long-ago novel, and wonders if there’s more to life than…