In the previous installments of this look back on the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, I have identified specific policy areas of failure that historians and FDR partisans ignore, downplay, or explain away in their infatuation with the nation’s 32nd president….
Great leaders rise to the challenges of the times. Franklin Roosevelt, who knew very little about economics, tried “experimentation” to end the Great Depression, but those experiments extended the Depression’s effects. Roosevelt, allegedly ahead of the American public, sensed the…
Netflix will soon feature Munich: The Edge of War, an adaptation of British author Robert Harris’ 2017 novel Munich, which portrays British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain as a hero for negotiating what Harris calls his “shrewd” Munich Agreement in September…
Recently in The American Spectator, I wrote a somewhat controversial article claiming that Franklin Roosevelt was a failure as president. One of the areas of failure, I argued, was FDR’s decision-making during the Second World War, which resulted in the…
Democrats insist that a former president can be impeached. Frankly, I had always thought this was an open question. I assumed that an ex-president, i.e., no longer in office, could not be impeached, especially given that I long understood impeachment…
History! Don’t we know by this stage in the Damn-demic Era that History is what you make up to push a point you want everybody else to take up? The New York Times’ rancid “1619 Project” comes sorrowfully to mind….
I think I’ll walk wide of heated conversations about Joe Biden’s mental acuity, given my lack of standing as a participant — or, more to the point, my overabundance of standing. When Joe emitted his first cry, back then in…
As we watch in great anxiety the rising toll of COVID-19, my mind has turned a number of times to Dr. Jonas Salk. Salk saved humanity from one of the worst scourges of his day: polio. Salk is etched in…
American liberals once worshipped at the feet of Lady Justice. During the 1960s, the heyday of the progressive Warren Court, jurists became the tip of the left-wing spear. If the public refused to accept the latest progressive nostrum, no worries….