Sarah Churchill, the great Prime Minister’s daughter, had been asked by her father for her reflections on his election campaign speech. Her father had given what may have been the most controversial speech of his career, a Jeremiah-like prophecy about…

Dear classmates, Old age is not as great as you might have thought it would be. I had what is mockingly called a “complete knee transplant” on Dec. 1, 2022. The patient (yours truly) awakened from an excruciating spinal to…

Fox News’ Bret Baier, who, like Bill O’Reilly before him, has used his perch as a television personality to become a writer of history books (and, like O’Reilly, co-writes these history books with a “collaborator,” formerly known as a ghostwriter),…

On the Real Clear Defense website, Seth Cropsey, a former naval officer who served as deputy undersecretary of the Navy in the Reagan and Bush 41 administrations, and who is the author of Mayday: The Decline of American Naval Supremacy…

There are few places where today’s cultural rot is more gangrenous than in legacy journalism. This has been such a problem for such a long time it hardly seems worthwhile drawing attention to it. Imagining that half the country doesn’t…

Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921 By Antony Beevor (Viking, 600 pages, $38)  Historians and international relations scholars use the terms “Stalinism” and “Stalinist” to distinguish the Soviet communist regime under Joseph Stalin from communist leaders in other periods of…

Most citizens are pained by the ugliness of today’s politics. So many wonder where the America they love has gone. Worst of all, in trying to sort it out, they look at the confusion of the deadly political fights swirling…

Ben Shapiro reflected on the stunning rebuke French President Macron received in the recent parliamentary elections. Macron had won his presidential campaign not so long ago by running as the sane and reasonable centrist in a France increasingly plagued by…

Biographer Robert Caro described in brilliant detail the life and campaigns of Lyndon B. Johnson. Caro allows his readers few illusions about the gritty reality of those elections. In 1941, as Caro relates, federal judge Jimmy Allred was listening to…