Brexit and All That
Robert Tombs's history of England covers the Neanderthals to New Labour.
Articles by Michael Knox Beran
The Private Faces of Public Virtue
As much as Machiavelli, who in the Discourses on Livy observed that a “corrupt people,†if it should obtain freedom, “can hardly preserve it,†Myron Magnet believes that private virtue is essential to the flourishing of a free society.
Disraeli’s Ghost
A review of The Conservatives: A History, by Robin Harris
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Problem
A review of The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century, by Peter Watson
He Was No Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr may have been a politician, but he was no statesman.
To Be As Gods
Socialism was defeated in the 20th century, but the belief at the heart of socialism survives.
Discreet Revolutionary
Remembering John Jay.