The American Spectator founder R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., has a new book coming out next month. It’s called How Do We Get Out of Here?: Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at The American Spectator—From Bobby Kennedy to Donald…
WASHINGTON — What has happened to the Democratic Party? Its elites have only one old codger running for the highest office in the land. The Republicans have at least a dozen, and one of them has held the presidency once…
In searching for, in the words of Mark Twain, history’s rhymes, the Biden administration’s strategy to combat anti-Semitism, unveiled May 25 to enthusiastic applause, shares a seminal stanza with the architect of the Bolshevik Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, who sought to…
Released in 1964, the Warren Report, issued by a commission that had meticulously suppressed ample evidence to the contrary, asserted that President John F. Kennedy had been murdered by a nonentity named Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone. In 1977, after…
I just took a trip with old geezers. I signed up for a dreaded package tour, this one for Ireland, and found myself surrounded by a mix of oldsters and retirees. How could that happen? Other than three 20-30-somethings traveling…
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…
If the Biden administration is engaged in postwar planning for Ukraine, it might want to consider how to get postwar first. Last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave his views on the endgame in Ukraine and what should happen…
WASHINGTON — I am engaged in reading a very fine book by my colleague Paul Kengor. It was written six years ago, so do not feel bad if you missed it. You still have time. It is called A Pope…
The Washington Post dived deep into its archives to find precedent for George Santos, a politician who lied. It happened 70 years ago. In “The congressman who ‘embellished’ his résumé long before George Santos,” the Post describes the case of…
