Wild About Harry
Harry Truman was a man of outstanding ability and human qualities who cleverly portrayed himself as one of nature’s and political life’s heroic underdogs.
Book Reviews
America First
Angelo Codevilla's final critique of our ruling class’s corruption.
Deep-State Constitutionalism
Individual natural rights are essential to assure that the “common good” is genuinely common to all.
Millennial Malformation
The Digital Age and postmodernist mentors set Millennials up to fail.
For the Sake of Argument
Our politics is now a clash of rival dogmas rather than anything our grandfathers would have recognized as argument.
Pursuing Happiness
Tracing the radically different conceptions of human flourishing that have been in contention over the past half-millennium can help us acquire self-knowledge.
Head of State
A brave attempt to rescue the term “greatness” as a meaningful metric of political achievement.
Overcoming the House Divided
Lincoln’s unprecedented acceptance of black Americans reflected his conviction about the fundamental equality of all human beings.
The Warmonger
Stalin saw an advantage in the renewal of global hostilities, so he helped facilitate them.
The Pastness of the Past
For Gordon Wood, no era has a monopoly on truth. Truth is merely the epiphenomenon of the era that produced it.
Bleak Nation
Our colonial past was not beautiful, but it was also not more destructive than many other pasts.
The 1619 Lesson
If the young are taught the terrible falsehood that “racism is and always was the dominant ideology,” then the American experiment will hang by the thinnest thread, and we will have no Lincolns to save it.