Presidential historian Armitage Goodwin is the visiting associate teaching assistant at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Center for Harmonious Race Relations. Here he explains his recent voting in the prestigious Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey. As a participant in the clunkily…
Sportscaster and CNN contributor Bob Costas made headlines recently by calling former President Donald Trump “by far the most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history” and referring to Trump supporters as being “in the throes of some sort of toxic…
One of the funniest passages in Mark Twain’s autobiography involves the effect of old age on his mental acuity: “When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and…
Just in time for Presidents Day, the American Political Science Association released its 2024 survey of presidential greatness, which merely confirms the ideological and political bias of political science professionals — the very same people who teach (indoctrinate?) our children…
We spoke to Roger Kaplan, the regular American Spectator tennis correspondent, on the subject of Presidents Day, who admitted to feeling peeved by the lack of response from the White House to the offer from his organization, the East Side…
No parent should be made responsible for crimes committed by their child. Otherwise my father would have ended up in prison the day that I threw a bottle at the town’s mayor from my pram. Seeing as I did it,…
I have nothing personal against Vivek Ramaswamy. Nor do I harbor any affinity toward him. In sum, when I think of Ramaswamy, I think of… Nothing. Obvious questions: Is he a nice, decent guy? A sonovogun? Compassionate when kindness is…
The only elected president to be refused his party’s nomination when he sought reelection was Franklin Pierce, a pro-Southern Democrat whose support for slavery lost him his party’s support in 1856. It’s not exactly a prestigious achievement, but there’s a…
Rep. Greg Steube of Florida filed articles of impeachment against the president of the United States on Friday. Based on existing evidence, the House should impeach Joe Biden. That said, three of the four counts seem frivolous based on existing…
PLYMOUTH NOTCH, Vt. — On Aug. 2, 1923, President Warren Harding unexpectedly fell ill and died while visiting San Francisco. Five hours later, America had a new president: Calvin Coolidge, a man driven by humility, respect, civility, and compassion. At…