Jephthah is described by the biblical Book of Judges as a somewhat disreputable character. Certainly, his birth was disreputable, but it was hardly his fault that his father’s liaison with a prostitute produced him as its fruit. Neither was it…
Much is being said right now about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The reason, of course, is the new film on Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan. The film has opened old debates and wounds about Oppenheimer’s communist…
Wars, especially unpopular wars, breed revolutions. And revolutions are unpredictable. News reports indicate that the Wagner Group mercenaries under the leadership of Yevgeny Prigozhin took control of military headquarters in Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don, and are headed toward Moscow in an…
It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or…
Winston Churchill’s first volume of his history of World War I, The World Crisis, was published 100 years ago this spring, to much acclaim (and some derision). It was the first of six volumes Churchill would write about what was…
America has an unwritten constitution. It’s not well-known, but it is powerful. It governs even the written constitution which we know so well. Where has such a constitution been hiding? In plain sight. Consider: after the Civil War, America took…
“The war in Ukraine is … about right and wrong, freedom and justice, humanity and barbarism, and above all whose leadership will define the economic and political structure of the 21st century: democratic America and her allies in Europe and East…
FDR knew how to deliver a laugh line. The president was dying by the time of the 1944 presidential campaign, but he summoned up the energy he needed not only to run a campaign, but to infuse it with humor….
Several writers (including The American Spectator’s own Daniel J. Flynn) have been calling our attention to the reappearance of a rare phenomenon in American politics — a defeated incumbent trying another run at the presidency. Only once was this done…
