One presidential perk is to decorate the Oval Office. With every change in administration, portraits, busts, carpets, draperies, and furniture come and go. Every president seeks to project his own image and message via the office décor. Donald Trump is…

The headlines speak plainly. As with this one from the Washington Times: “Trump ‘not joking’ about a 3rd term, says there are ways around constitutional limits.” The story reports: President Trump is flirting with running for a third term —…

In Federalist 70, Alexander Hamilton wrote that “Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks. It is not less essential to the…

As our regular readers are aware, I’m hard at work plowing away at a new political book. It’s a sequel to The Revivalist Manifesto, which though it’s now three years old has held up quite well; the new title is…

Eighty years ago this month, the United States and Great Britain effectively conceded Eastern Europe and parts of Central Europe to Soviet control at the infamous Yalta Conference held at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea. Forty years later, President…

Conventional histories usually mark the beginning of the Cold War to the year 1946 or 1947. But in truth the Cold War began during the Second World War. Great Britain welcomed Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union as an ally against Germany…

Ever since Election Day 2024, various supporters and conservative journalists have been voicing the prediction that President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office will be “the greatest ever.” Former aide Steve Bannon has prophesied for months that Trump’s start…

Seventy-five years ago China fell to the communists. Revisionist history can be a touchy subject, especially when it attempts to correct an “accepted” version of history that has been passed on to generations of Americans by teachers in high schools…

Franklin Roosevelt’s battle with the famous aviator and anti-interventionist Charles Lindbergh is often presented as a morality play showing Roosevelt to be the long-sighted hero in the war on fascism. Since then, Democrats have lobbed charges of fascism against Republicans,…

In 1986, historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, wrote The Cycles of American History, which included a chapter on the cycle of American politics. Schlesinger viewed America’s political cycles as alterations “between public purpose” (which as a liberal, he favored) and “private…