It was an exceptionally dark night in Ruidoso, New Mexico, and I was riding in a car crawling down a…
When you walk the Fredericksburg battlefield, especially near the stone wall at the base of Mayre’s Heights (which is just…
Fans of John Keats (1795–1821) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) have a reason to celebrate. Esteemed Shakespeare scholar Sir Jonathan…
Sophie Halberstadt was 26 years old and pregnant with her third child when she fell ill with the Spanish influenza….
The International Olympic Committee has a penchant for choosing genocidal and repressive regimes as hosts for the Olympics and then…
In 1999, I practiced complex civil business litigation at the Los Angeles offices of one of the 10 most prominent…
Six former U.S. education secretaries, who served under both Democratic and Republican presidents, are sounding the alarm about the grave…
Memorial Day tasks us with remembering. The age of the imposter demands that we forget. Four years ago, this writer,…
Churchill & Son Josh Ireland (Dutton, 464 pages, $34) Despite an inauspicious beginning, Churchill & Son is a thoughtful study…