Michael Lucchese

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  • April 24, 2025
    Not only is April 23 Saint George’s Day, the national feast of England, it is also the anniversary of both the birth and death of William Shakespeare, the finest poet that...
  • March 6, 2025
    Recent surveys indicate the decades-long ebb in religious observance has finally bottomed out. Last month, Pew Research released data indicating that the declining share of...
  • February 28, 2025
    On April 29, 1778, two great figures of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Franklin and Voltaire, met at the Paris Academy of Sciences. As Voltaire saw Franklin approaching, he declared...
  • February 18, 2025
    TikTok is democracy in its rawest form. All that matters on the video-sharing platform is mass appeal and virality (so long as it does not offend the sensibilities of the...