On this day:
334 BC
The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
1377
Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
1455
Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
1826
HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
1856
Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (“Bleeding Kansas”).
1968
The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
2011
An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri, killing up to 161 people. It is the single deadliest US tornado since modern record-keeping began in 1950.
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Two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC have died following a shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum after an event discussing how to increase humanitarian aid to Gaza.
The embassy has named Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram as the victims. The pair planned to get married.
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Juan Soto, the 26-year-old New York Mets star, was greeted by his old fans of the crosstown New York Yankees with their backs to him. He was then accused of not running out ground balls before rumors swirled that he was antagonizing the locker room by taking a private jet with his family instead of traveling with the team.
Against the Red Sox on Wednesday, Soto seemingly refused to swing the bat through his first three at-bats. He struck out each time, rare for a player lauded for his plate discipline.
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"Unlike many others at Harvard, I have no dramatic cancellation, or intellectual persecution, or struggle session to report. I stopped teaching at Harvard last year primarily because of its anti-truth-seeking culture, radical left-wing bias, racial and gender discrimination, and prevailing anti-intellectualism, which made continued participation a poor use of time. There are exceptions, but on the whole, Harvard has strayed from its foundational mission of unbiased truth-seeking and has become ideologically driven, too often resembling a secular church or a partisan think tank. The university’s culture and practices prioritize ideological conformity over open inquiry and debate, suppressing dissenting viewpoints and compromising academic freedom. This shift undermines the core values of a secular university and poses a threat to the integrity of academia and broader society."--Omar Sultan Haque in City Journal
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"Regency" refers to a period when a nation is governed by a substitute, in place of its rightful ruler. This occurs when an heir to the throne is too young to assume the role or an existing ruler is too impaired.
In Europe, it refers specifically to the United Kingdom from 1811 to 1820, when the Prince of Wales (later George IV) acted as regent because of his father's mental illness, and to France, from 1715 to 1723, when Philip, Duke of Orleans, ruled France because Louis XV was too young to rule. ("The minority of Louis XV.")
America had a regency during the Biden presidency, but it can't be named because we, the American citizens, do not know who was substituting for the man who was elected.
The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
1377
Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
1455
Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
1826
HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
1856
Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (“Bleeding Kansas”).
1968
The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
2011
An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri, killing up to 161 people. It is the single deadliest US tornado since modern record-keeping began in 1950.
Two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC have died following a shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum after an event discussing how to increase humanitarian aid to Gaza.
The embassy has named Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram as the victims. The pair planned to get married.
***
Juan Soto, the 26-year-old New York Mets star, was greeted by his old fans of the crosstown New York Yankees with their backs to him. He was then accused of not running out ground balls before rumors swirled that he was antagonizing the locker room by taking a private jet with his family instead of traveling with the team.
Against the Red Sox on Wednesday, Soto seemingly refused to swing the bat through his first three at-bats. He struck out each time, rare for a player lauded for his plate discipline.
***
"Unlike many others at Harvard, I have no dramatic cancellation, or intellectual persecution, or struggle session to report. I stopped teaching at Harvard last year primarily because of its anti-truth-seeking culture, radical left-wing bias, racial and gender discrimination, and prevailing anti-intellectualism, which made continued participation a poor use of time. There are exceptions, but on the whole, Harvard has strayed from its foundational mission of unbiased truth-seeking and has become ideologically driven, too often resembling a secular church or a partisan think tank. The university’s culture and practices prioritize ideological conformity over open inquiry and debate, suppressing dissenting viewpoints and compromising academic freedom. This shift undermines the core values of a secular university and poses a threat to the integrity of academia and broader society."--Omar Sultan Haque in City Journal
***
"Regency" refers to a period when a nation is governed by a substitute, in place of its rightful ruler. This occurs when an heir to the throne is too young to assume the role or an existing ruler is too impaired.
In Europe, it refers specifically to the United Kingdom from 1811 to 1820, when the Prince of Wales (later George IV) acted as regent because of his father's mental illness, and to France, from 1715 to 1723, when Philip, Duke of Orleans, ruled France because Louis XV was too young to rule. ("The minority of Louis XV.")
America had a regency during the Biden presidency, but it can't be named because we, the American citizens, do not know who was substituting for the man who was elected.
America, the nation of Washington and Jefferson and Madison, Lincoln and Whitman, Concord and Gettysburg, America has a Regency!
"everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
...
Surely some revelation is at hand;"
The question is not what has happened to America's government; the question is what has happened to America's citizens?
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