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by | May 29, 2023

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…

by | Apr 1, 2023

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…

by | Feb 19, 2023

Roads Not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt By Alexander Etkind (University of Pittsburgh Press, 264 pages, $30) Just before his death in 1967, the American diplomat William C. Bullitt published a scathing book on Woodrow Wilson that…

by | Nov 19, 2022

Several writers (including The American Spectator’s own Daniel J. Flynn) have been calling our attention to the reappearance of a rare phenomenon in American politics — a defeated incumbent trying another run at the presidency. Only once was this done…

by | Oct 25, 2022

The “journalist” Bob Woodward is promoting his forthcoming audiobook The Trump Tapes just in time for the midterm elections. Earlier this week, he said he considers former President Donald Trump to be “dangerous” and a “threat to democracy” and a…

by | Aug 21, 2022

Two Harvard Law School professors, Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule, recently published a book with the intriguing title Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State. Far from “redeeming” anything, their book actually recounts why administrative law in general and the…

by | Feb 8, 2022

It has become commonplace for historians and scholars to compare presidential corruption to Warren Harding, claiming he is the standard to measure dishonesty in the White House. It is repeated on both sides of the political aisle, Republicans as well…

by | Mar 25, 2021

Let’s face it: Joe Biden sucks. Everything about him sucks. He sucks as a messenger, his economic policies suck, he completely sucks as a truth-teller. He sucks in the integrity department. And people suffering from the debilitating effects of old…

by | Mar 13, 2021

On Wednesday, March 3, a televised Biden event turned into a head-scratcher. The president seemed to at last open himself up to answering the press’s questions in a serious way. Fifty days into his presidency, he has still not held…

by | Dec 19, 2020

It was inevitable that the Democrats would overreact to legal challenges by President Trump and other Republicans to corrupt election practices in swing states, but some responses have been unhinged even by their standards. One recurring refrain is particularly disturbing…

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