Roads Not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt By Alexander Etkind (University of Pittsburgh Press, 264 pages, $30) Just before his death in 1967, the American diplomat William C. Bullitt published a scathing book on Woodrow Wilson that…
Communism and the Conscience of the West By Fulton J. Sheen (TAN Books, 280 pages, $28) Born on the Midwestern plains of El Paso, Illinois, in May 1895, Fulton J. Sheen was ordained a priest in 1919 in the Catholic…
Some famous writers are forgotten the moment they kick off. Joan Didion, who passed away at age 87 two days before Christmas last year, isn’t one of them. It’s not because her work is so monumental. Her screenplays for movies…
In the age of disappearing Snapchat messages, Insta stories, and 280-character tweets, it is reasonable to ask why building lasting monuments matters. It matters because in this sea of 21st-century distraction, we must be pulled out of our everyday lives…
“Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute,” said President Ronald Reagan in July 1983. “The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom. Abraham Lincoln spoke for us…. The…
A museum honoring those who died at the hands of communist regimes opened in downtown Washington, D.C., on Thursday. Officially called the Victims of Communism Museum, it seeks to educate the public on the Marxist ideology which was responsible for…
It’s Mother’s Day, 5/8/2022. To say the subject of motherhood is fraught in my life would be a gigantic understatement. For a large part of my childhood, I hated her, feared her, and wanted to run away from home. My…
The director Jay Roach, whose 2019 movie Bombshell is just out on Netflix, gained success with a couple of exceedingly lowbrow comedy franchises — the three Austin Powers movies, as well as Meet the Parents and its sequel Meet the…
I’m late in acknowledging UN Day — which took place on October 24 — but hey, no big deal. After all, the UN was tardy in acknowledging the Rwanda genocide. It dropped the ball on the Srebrenica genocide, too. So…