This Week in History

This entire week in history is special because of what happened in 1582, when the Catholic countries of southern Europe (plus Poland) became the first to adopt the new calendar decreed by Pope Gregory XIII and so move off of the old Julian calendar. The “Gregorian” calendar was designed to ensure that vernal equinox fell … More This Week in History

The Week in Preview

10/8/11 – Coming up next week here at The Pietist Schoolman… Getting back to business, as series on non-Western “clouds of witnesses” and Carolyn Weber’s conversion at Oxford return, as will This Week in History. Plus, the best book on Italian history I’ve read recently.

The Worst Person Before Hitler

Hank Williams, Jr. stirred up a fracas this past week by likening Barack Obama playing golf with Speaker of the House John Boehner to Adolf Hitler playing golf with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Not following the analogy? From the Bocephus SAT Prep Guide answer section… Obama:Hitler::Boehner:Netanyahu.) (On overly facile Nazi analogies, check out the … More The Worst Person Before Hitler