Pedro Sánchez’s Kingdom
Progressive reign in Spain.
Essays
Three Declarations, Three Revolutions
Natural right and American exceptionalism.
Red and Dead
How Communism conquered China.
Brush Up Your Fowler
"A Dictionary of Modern English Usage" a hundred years on.
The Two Pope Leos
Can the new pope, like his namesake, find a new approach?
Melville at Sea
Moby-Dick’s fearsome image of America.
The Left’s Permanent Derangement
It’s more than Donald Trump.
Our Happiest Founding Father
Benjamin Franklin and the primacy of the good.
Analog Kids
Stranger Things and the upside-down American childhood.
John Quincy Adams and the Fourth of July
Rhapsodies in red, white, and blue.
The Great Leap Forward
How China overtook the U.S.
Night of the Living Woke
The Democratic Party’s center cannot hold.