The gray mantle of evening had finally shrouded the light of a balmy midsummer’s day, and the good citizens of…
The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad By Harrison Salisbury ( Da Capo Press, 672 pages, $23) Eighty-two years ago, the…
The Hotel Harrington, Washington, D.C.’s oldest auberge, closes today. For many within The American Spectator community, the shuttering marks the…
Guglielmo Marconi was stubborn. He probably got that from his mother, an Irish noblewoman who had moved to Italy to…
The tragic thing about the modern world is that it believes it has explained everything. How does gravity keep us…
The 50th Anniversary of the Saturday Night Massacre passed last month, with C-SPAN’s American History TV hosting a panel featuring…
21st Century Mahan: Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era By Benjamin F. Armstrong (Naval Institute Press, 240 pages, $26) Alfred…
The revelation comes at the funerals. The side-by-side combatants in trying to block the Panama Canal giveaway or the Supreme…
I love Thanksgiving. It’s the best American holiday — besting July 4, if only because the celebrations don’t scare the…
