Portrait of Power
Demystifying Vladimir Putin.
history
Correspondence Summer 2022
You Could Look It Up
A well-made index can be a great aid helping us “arrive swiftly but unruffled at the passage—the quotation, the datum, the knowledge—we need.”
Athwart History
By the 21st century, populists and elites had changed places—ordinary Americans were commonsensical while the elites were driven by unruly passions.
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.
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.
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.
Rule, Britannia!
Gilley’s portrait of Sir Alan Burns is the best defense of empire a reader could ask for.
King or Tyrant?
Contrary to the caricatures of King George III in American popular culture, he was neither ignorant nor tyrannical.
Imperious Historians
Time’s Monster claims that historians have been “the key architects of empire,” a belief embraced by the street-renaming and statue-toppling social movement.
His Spirit Abides
In today’s divided America, when questions of American purpose and identity are increasingly contested, Lincoln’s wisdom is still speaking.