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…
In the last eight or nine years, it’s felt to many Americans as if the country has changed very dramatically, if not irreversibly. A century ago, our forebears had a similar feeling. In 2016, Donald Trump was elected president and…
The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson By Patrick Weil (Harvard University Press, 378 pages, $35) Had you told Mattie Ross that Woodrow Wilson’s reverence for his father indicated he…
Twenty years ago, John B. Judis, then an editor of the New Republic, currently the editor-at-large of Talking Points Memo, and one of the few remaining sensible thinkers on the left of the American political spectrum, wrote The Folly of Empire,…
Thomas Jefferson, in an 1816 letter to a member of the Virginia General Assembly, made this observation: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”…
Millions of conservative Americans voted for Donald Trump in 2016 because he recognized that appointing Supreme Court justices was among the most important things a president does. And we were not disappointed. The hysterical reaction of the Left is proof…
A former member of the Obama State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, writing in Foreign Affairs, has called for President Joe Biden to offer Russia what Woodrow Wilson offered Germany after World War I. Max Bergmann, currently at the Center for…
For a century after the Espionage Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, our friends on the left have consistently denounced it as antithetical to democracy. They objected when it was used to…
The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson Patrick Weil (Harvard University Press, 400 pages, $35) William Bullitt was one of the most interesting Americans of the 20th century. He turns…
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…