As Francis Sempa reports in this publication, Robert Kaplan and Mike Pompeo take very different views on the future course of American grand strategy, with Pompeo advocating a more muscular approach and Kaplan favoring restraint. While I respect both, having…
This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this…
In ancient Israel, King Saul and King David began their reigns only after the people had gathered and acclaimed them as their monarch. The power they had in their hands was real — they were not only heads of state,…
Most citizens are pained by the ugliness of today’s politics. So many wonder where the America they love has gone. Worst of all, in trying to sort it out, they look at the confusion of the deadly political fights swirling…
Boris has gone. He really has. The biggest personality in postwar British politics, bigger even than Churchill, has been brought down. His many opponents are jubilant, his many supporters distraught. Boris, as befits someone of such incredible charisma (he was…
Washington — Take a break from the news. From the stories of war in Ukraine, the slaughter of schoolchildren in Texas, and from mayhem against minorities in Buffalo, New York. Turn your attention at least temporarily to consider Queen Elizabeth…
For the second weekend in a row, I observed a phenomenon that signaled a major rightward shift in the political-cultural axis. The previous weekend brought the enormous box-office success of Top Gun: Maverick, which came as a shock to everyone…
Who’d have thought a 95-year-old woman, who’s just lost her husband of seven decades, could be so utterly ruthless? Who could know she’d stand ready to desert her favorite child? And who could imagine that she would put her business…
The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III By Andrew Roberts (Viking, 784 pages, $32) Published on November 9. “George the Third/Ought never to have occurred./One can only wonder/At so grotesque a blunder.” This clerihew (by the…
