The Bacterium That Changed History
Consider this: 650 years after that tidal wave of mortality that became known in English-speaking countries as "the Black Death," the word "plague" remains one of the most powerful in our language.
Michael Fumento is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. and a syndicated columnist with Scripps Howard News Service.
Get your free calendar or renew your subscription to the Claremont Review of Books and receive a free 2021 calendar featuring the drawings of CRB Art Director Elliott Banfield.