“Like Alexander of Macedonia,* Alexander of Jugoslavia cut through the Gordian Knot.” *I.e. “Alexander the Great” (B. C. 356-323). Today Macedon or Macedonia has no separate ...

In Sunday’s Bee, Victor Davis Hanson compares Donald Trump with Alexander The Great, the ruler of the ancient world. He used his sword to slash the Gordian knot. But, the distortions of fact in ...

Merchan might have done well to remember that Alexander the Great’s solution to the original Gordian knot was not to keep tangling it, but cut through it—with a sword, no less. Merchan should ...

It’s not subtle, but it is effective. And, after all, how did Alexander solve the riddle of the Gordian knot? He sliced through it with a sword. All the same, while there is something efficient ...