There aren’t many people who know that the first working helicopter was invented by an Alexandria man. His name was Leo Ortego and he is the uncle of Alexandria author M.E. Nevill. The 76-year-old ...

Author Daniel J. Flynn has written the definitive account of Frank Meyer in his new book, The Man Who Invented Conservatism. Meyer was not only a political thinker but also a man who helped shape the ...

The American sociologist Robert K. Merton, who died in 2003 at age 92, was a longtime fixture at Columbia University, where he invented such now-standard terms as “role model” and “self-fulfilling ...