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John Mancini – Founder and Executive Director

Competing Legacies

The Jews are truly blessed. Last September, the National Endowment for the Humanities, a government funded honeypot, awarded the Jewish nonprofit Tikvah $10.4 million to inform Americans how wonderful the People of the Book are. It was the largest gift ...

Bill Dal Cerro, Senior Analyst

WHEN IN ROME

I have long given up on American filmmakers ever doing justice to Italy on the screen. Granted, it's hard for any filmmaker who didn't grow up in a specific country to know all about its cultural or historical nuances, even ...

Rosario A. Iaconis, Senior Analyst

What Ken Burns Left Out

Contrary to Ken Burns’ recent documentary on the American Revolution, it was a band of Italians, the ancient Romans—not the Iroquois—who served as the model for our fledgling republic. Those are Roman fasces mounted in the U.S. House of Representatives ...