Since 2009, every change of presidents has been accompanied by a great furor and scurry among the punditry over whose…
In an amusing and insightful article this week on JNS.org entitled “The upside of defeat,” Ruth Blum noted wryly how…
Washington We are at that stage in the race for the presidency when the Democrats and their allies in the…
Constitutions deal with the real world, which is never as simple as an attractive idea. But a constitution that is…
One of Winston’s Churchill’s duties as First Lord of the Admiralty was to submit names for new navy ships to…
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz By Erik Larson (Crown, 588…
Winston Churchill gave his maiden broadcast to the United Kingdom as prime minister 80 years ago May 19. It was…
On May 10, 80 years ago, Winston Churchill became prime minister of Britain. Germany had already become the dominant power…
England in the 1640s was shaking apart along many fault lines. The royalists, known as the Cavaliers, fought with King…
