Millions of conservative Americans voted for Donald Trump in 2016 because he recognized that appointing Supreme Court justices was among the most important things a president does. And we were not disappointed. The hysterical reaction of the Left is proof…
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…
As water faced reflects back a face, so is one person’s heart to another. — Proverbs 27:19 Barack Obama won his 2008 campaign on the fuzziest of platforms: “Hope and Change.” Nothing specific, except the fact that he was black…
The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson Patrick Weil (Harvard University Press, 400 pages, $35) William Bullitt was one of the most interesting Americans of the 20th century. He turns…
Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made By Derek Leebaert St. Martin’s Press/476 pages/$35 Derek Leebaert writes interesting and provocative books. In The Fifty-Year Wound, he assessed the triumphs but also the costs of America’s…
It’s just a few months shy of fifty years since I first met Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, better known by the affectionate name of Der Alter Rebbe — the Old Rabbi. By meeting him, I mean reading and studying…
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….
While most Americans commemorate the anniversary of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 — what President Franklin Roosevelt called “a date which will live in infamy” — most Americans are probably not aware that the infamy of…
The “journalist” Bob Woodward is promoting his forthcoming audiobook The Trump Tapes just in time for the midterm elections. Earlier this week, he said he considers former President Donald Trump to be “dangerous” and a “threat to democracy” and a…
