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by | Mar 7, 2023

Each year for Women’s History Month, which has taken place in March since 1987, the National Women’s History Alliance designates a theme. “Celebrating Women Who Tell Stories” is the theme for 2023. Storytelling is a fine trait for anyone to…

by | Mar 6, 2023

The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest 1800-1900 By Jon K. Lauck (University of Oklahoma Press, 366 pages, $65) Regional or cultural histories seem to be more in vogue now more than ever before. They have undoubtedly grown…

by | Feb 21, 2023

The World: A Family History By Simon Sebag Montefiore (Knopf, 1,344 pages, $45) Simon Sebag Montefiore’s book The World: A Family History, which will be released on May 16, is a catalog of moral, sexual, and political depravity, corruption, sadism,…

by | Feb 15, 2023

Para descubrir al tonto no hay mejor reactivo que la palabra: medieval. Inmediatamente ve rojo.  To discover the fool there is no better reagent than the word “medieval.” He immediately sees red. – Nicolás Gómez Dávila The church of St….

by | Feb 4, 2023

In recent years, we have heard much about the need to accept the findings of “the science,” despite the fact that such a thing does not exist. Scientists and informed observers know that science is seldom settled but instead consists…

by | Jan 17, 2023

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in…

by | Jan 14, 2023

The great British historian and biographer Paul Johnson died recently at the age of 94. He authored/edited more than 40 books — from large and small biographies of Socrates, Jesus, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth I and King Edward III, Napoleon, George…

by | Jan 13, 2023

Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age By Daisy Hay (Princeton University Press, 516 pages, $32) From 1760 to 1809, British bookseller and publisher Joseph Johnson (1738–1809) hosted a weekly dinner at his London home and…

by | Jan 13, 2023

I was born in 1981. I don’t remember much, but I think it was Monday because the gynecologist had dark circles under his eyes. We used to play soccer in the street, we hated going to school, and we would…

by | Jan 13, 2023

The American Spectator lost a great friend yesterday, and America lost a great friend too. On Thursday, Paul Johnson passed away. He was 94. In our battle with the Clintons and our battle to keep this magazine free from their…

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