Aug. 10 is Herbert Hoover Day, marked annually on Hoover’s birthday to remember the legacy of America’s 31st president. This year the day is especially notable as it also marks the controversial president’s 150th birthday. To most Americans, Hoover’s presidency…
The Warner Brothers By Chris Yogerst (University of Kentucky Press, 360 pages, $34.95) I visited Hollywood California in the summer of 2022 and shared my LA story in these pages. I toured some of the major sites, including Warner Brothers…
The following article is excerpted from a speech delivered by the author in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Grove City College’s Institute for Faith & Freedom on June 6, 2023. The video is available here. Of the nearly 80 people since Alexander…
This past April, I found myself lamenting the continued loss of America’s greatest generation, heartbroken by the news of the passing of Ken Potts, one of the two remaining Pearl Harbor survivors serving aboard the USS Arizona on that fateful…
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…
Don’t be confused by the latest numbers. Smart forecasters still predict a deep recession. Brian S. Wesbury and Robert Stein at First Trust Portfolios have been reliable guides over recent decades. They expressed some hope for a correction over the last…
As Presidents’ Day 2023 approaches, we can anticipate the annual ritual of polls of scholars ranking the presidents. These polls can provide fodder for chitchat around the dinner table or at social gatherings, but in terms of providing illuminating insights…
It can be said of the remarkable gumbo of New Orleans that not only is there no other city in America like it, there’s no other city in America even remotely like it. Something of the same can be justly…
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…
