Learning from Christmas

Christmas is an opportunity to return to encouraging stories and customs. Thus, this Yuletide, I feel a glow on coming back to World Politics Review to examine the story of the Three Magi. Five years prior, while composing a week after week segment for WPR, I utilized a bubbly piece to make light fun of the Magi—or Three Kings, or Three Wise Men—who highlight in the Gospel of Matthew. The Magi broadly moved toward Herod, at that po....