Last month, when Vladimir Putin was still massing troops on the Ukrainian border, I decided to read “Seven Pillars of Wisdom,” T.E. Lawrence’s memoir of the 1916-1918 Arab revolt against the ...

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In my estimation, this world has again taken a wrong turn. In many respects we are lost even though some falsely believe we are in control of our destiny.

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is not an easy book to read. To one not familiar with the details of northern Arabian geography, and few of us are, the multiplicity of place names is confusing.

The book's title is drawn from the seven pillars of creation in the Old Testament (see Prov. 9:1), each of which adds a distinctive contribution to the manifold nature of creation: the two accounts of ...

At first, the long-sought capture of Damascus might seem to be the climax of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom." Yet the book's actual conclusion occurs afterward, when the weary-hearted Lawrence, urged to ...

One of my heroes, Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as T.E. Lawrence and recognized even more famously throughout the world as "Lawrence of Arabia," was born on this day, Aug. 16, in 1888 ...

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