The deep concern of modern scientists with the loss of forests is paralleled in medieval literary texts where the forest is identified as a central staging ground with enormous transformative powers.
At a time when many are questioning what America stands for in a world consumed by sectarian strife, it is well to remember where freedom of conscience was first practiced.
Madison’s narrative was always that of James Madison, a member. Continuing for a half century after 1787, he struggled to understand what had happened that summer. Worth knowing this Constitution Day!
The term once was used to connote the defensive movement of Muslims to lands where they would be free from persecution. Today, hijra has become a tool of violence and aggression.
