Three blocks from the United States Capitol, where the marble monuments of American democracy rise against the sky, stands a building unlike anything else in Washington, D.C. Behind forty-foot bronze doors cast with lines from the Gutenberg Bible lies 430,000 square feet dedicated entirely to the book that shaped Western civilization more than any other.…
Profiles of Americans who stood for truth when silence would have been easier.
Freedom of speech was never meant to protect popularity. It was meant to protect conviction — the rare willingness to say what is right when everyone else looks away. Throughout history, progress has been born not from consensus, but from conscience.…
Few relics in human history have provoked such intense investigation as the Shroud of Turin, a linen cloth imprinted with the faint image of a crucified man. It has been studied by physicists, chemists, pathologists, historians, and skeptics for more than a century. To many, it represents the burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth. To…
