History in the Present Tense
If nothing else, Joseph Ellis proves that you can’t write history in the present tense.
Articles by Joseph Tartakovsky
We Could Use a Man Like…
The rehabilitation of Herbert Hoover.
Zero Shades of Gray
Sandefur’s cure entails a yet worse ill: a free society that needs judges to save it from itself.
In Madisons’s Shade
Joseph Tartakovsky reviews three books on James Madison.
Heart of Plum
A review of P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters, edited by Sophie Ratcliffe
Liberty and Union
Charles Carroll, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence
I Still Expect to Win
A review of A Matter of Principle, by Conrad Black
Dead End
Reviewing a memoir on mortality.
Man of a Thousand Faces
A review of Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography, by Alberto Manguel
Golden Juggler
At 70 years old, America's finest essayist isn't ready to hit the showers just yet.
Mother Tongue
The invention of the English language.
Pith and Pen
John Gross and the art of the anecdote.
Ungrateful Volcano
A history of foreign involvement in Iraq and what it means for America.
The Opiate of the Masses
Drinking vodka like a Russian.
Pictures Worth a Thousand Lives
Why it matters how the conflict between Israel and Palestine is portrayed by the media.
Strange Creatures
No matter how stormy its progress, Russia will matter.