We pride ourselves on having abolished the hereditary privileges once associated with aristocracy. But our citizenship system replicates many of the same evils. A US passport. The privileges ...

Washington DC — For centuries, innumerable countries were ruled by an entrenched, typically inherited, political class: the "aristocracy." The term comes from the Ancient Greek words "aristos", ...

They say history tends to repeat itself. That’s why we teach history to our young adults in high school so that hopefully they will not allow bad history to repeat itself. A couple of hundred years ...

This post was updated Jan. 15 at 7:48 p.m. For a Hollywood bathed in privilege, it’s far too easy to romanticize the glamour of history. Recent years have brought about a wave of historical dramas ...