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by | Aug 20, 2022

Most citizens are pained by the ugliness of today’s politics. So many wonder where the America they love has gone….

by | Jul 7, 2022

Boris has gone. He really has. The biggest personality in postwar British politics, bigger even than Churchill, has been brought…

by | Jun 8, 2022

Washington — Take a break from the news. From the stories of war in Ukraine, the slaughter of schoolchildren in…

by | Jun 6, 2022

For the second weekend in a row, I observed a phenomenon that signaled a major rightward shift in the political-cultural…

by | Jan 20, 2022

Who’d have thought a 95-year-old woman, who’s just lost her husband of seven decades, could be so utterly ruthless? Who…

by | Nov 8, 2021

The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III By Andrew Roberts (Viking, 784 pages, $32) Published on…

by | Jul 25, 2021

Why do people work all the hours God sends, then, when they finally get to take a vacation, insist on…

by | May 7, 2021

In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire Laurence Bergreen (HarperCollins, 440 pages, $30) Francis Drake, son of an English clergyman of modest means, was a…

by | Apr 7, 2021

Churchill & Son Josh Ireland (Dutton, 464 pages, $34) Despite an inauspicious beginning, Churchill & Son is a thoughtful study…

by | Mar 9, 2021

One of the great insights of Edmund Burke’s monumental treatise Reflections on the Revolution in France is his defense of…

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