Miguel A. Faria

Author Archive

  • Jul 14, 2025
    Hamilton, Gifted Immigrant, Student, and Soldier Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804) was born in the West Indies on the island of Nevis in the Caribbean, descended from the laird of...
  • Jul 9, 2025
    The founding of Rome is in the realm of myth and legend as well as history. Rome’s historic past was obscured by the mist of time, and so when the Romans reached their apogee,...
  • Jun 20, 2025
    Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 BC) was a patrician aristocrat who entered the army under the general Gaius Marius. In the Roman war against Numidia in North Africa, Sulla was...
  • May 21, 2025
    Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, who had covertly aided the American Revolution, had long coveted his civil rights. And in the France of the 1780s, he used the...
  • May 7, 2025
    Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732–1799) was a man of many talents whose life provides an interesting pivotal transitional point from the American Revolution on...
  • Apr 16, 2025
    On July 13, 1793, a young woman and a Girondin sympathizer, Charlotte Corday, walked bravely into 30 Rue des Cordeliers and assassinated the radical and bloodthirsty Jean-Paul Marat....
  • Apr 15, 2025
    On July 13, 1793, a young woman and a Girondin sympathizer, Charlotte Corday, walked bravely into 30 Rue des Cordeliers and assassinated the radical and bloodthirsty Jean-Paul Marat....
  • Apr 14, 2025
    On July 13, 1793, Girondin sympathizer named Charlotte Corday walked bravely into 30 Rue des Cordeliers and assassinated the radical and bloodthirsty Jean-Paul Marat. Marat had...
  • Apr 7, 2025
    Maximilien Robespierre attended the prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris when he was eleven years old. He was “a model student” and excelled in his scholastic...
  • Mar 14, 2025
    In the last two decades, many conservatives have been calling for a Convention of States, (a more appealing term than a Constitutional Convention), to restore federalism and reduce...
  • Mar 3, 2025
    In 1786, the fledgling United States was struggling under the Articles of Confederation. The central government could not tax, regulate trade, or enter in to treaties as an undivided...
  • Feb 21, 2025
    It is common to see articles and editorials urging us to do away with Electoral College; the writers yearn to “move forward” and adopt a “one person, one...
  • Feb 17, 2025
    Within the framework of our Constitutional Republic, the founding fathers created the Electoral College, which has served our country well for over two centuries. This unique system...
  • Feb 10, 2025
    On 18 September 1787, the final day of Philadelphia’s Constitutional Convention at Independence Hall, Mrs. Elizabeth Willing Powel asked Dr. Benjamin Franklin a pertinent...
  • Jan 31, 2025
    Over the years the CIA has functioned as a guardian of freedom, a protective shield of U.S. national security (and indirectly the West), while routinely remaining in the background...
  • Jan 24, 2025
    In the book The Morality of Self-Defense and Military Action: The Judeo-Christian Tradition, author David B. Kopel objectively discusses difficult and...
  • Jan 20, 2025
    Operation SOLO was a sensitive operation against the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) that rapidly evolved into a deep penetration of the leadership of the Soviet Union...
  • Jan 13, 2025
    Chinese espionage against the West, particularly the United States, continues from the Cold War and the “end of history” era into the 21st century, following in many ways...