A new cathedral spire has finally emerged from scaffolding nearly four years after flames engulfed Paris’s storied Notre Dame Cathedral in April 2019. Intense reconstruction efforts began immediately … No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and get unlimited…
Two hundred years ago, on Feb. 7, 1824, President James Monroe invited Revolutionary War hero Gen. Lafayette to the United States. Earlier, Lafayette had expressed his wish to visit this country fo… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism…
Early this week, if you opened the maps app on your phone and zoomed in on Paris, you would notice something peculiar: Almost every major highway leading into the country’s capital city was marked in … No hoodwinking or hornswoggling…
President Joe Biden met with voters in Columbia, South Carolina, on Saturday evening. He used the occasion to scream the lie that President Donald J. Trump rejected a visit to a World War I military g… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support…
In June 2020, as peaceful protesters burned city after city as part of their ongoing Summer of Love, Europe watched on warily as the love threatened to spread across the pond and soon did, in the Unit… No hoodwinking or…
When Hitler invaded France in 1940, the conventional wisdom was that the French had the best military in Europe. This was despite Germany’s crushing victory over Poland and several other powers consid… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism…
It’s fashionable to claim that the free-market ideas of Nobel-laureate economist Milton Friedman have failed America and that it’s time for new policies. Campaigning in 2020, Joe Biden declared that “… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and…
I’ve never entirely understood why, when the subject is death-dealing psychopathic dictators like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, Napoleon almost always gets a pass. No, he didn’t put Jews into concentration… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and get…
Le Temps Des Combats (The Time of Battles) By Nicolas Sarkozy (Fayard, 592 pages, $43) Like clockwork, every time former French President Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012) publishes a new book, his pa… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and…
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, sent a message to a large crowd — over 100,000 people, according to the Associated Press — who marched Sunday against anti-Semitism. The march was called by p… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent…