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by | Feb 19, 2024

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…

by | Feb 11, 2024

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…

by | Feb 8, 2024

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…

by | Jan 27, 2024

Savile Row, located in central London, was once the home of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). Lord Curzon described the building as “cramped and rather squalid,” but on January 25, 1904, the audience heard a paper read by Halford Mackinder…

by | Jan 24, 2024

If you tour the magnificent Blenheim Palace, you will see the room where 150 years ago Winston Churchill was born — Nov. 30, 1874. A short distance from the palace is the very modest Bladon churchyard where Churchill was buried…

by | Jan 20, 2024

A century ago, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, who kept his underground nom de guerre, Lenin, had achieved all that a revolutionary could wish. After his Bolshevik Party seized power he was the most important person in the Soviet Union. Then he…

by | Jan 5, 2024

China calls it the “Polar Silk Road.” It’s the “northern wing of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative.” It consists of four maritime routes that traverse the Arctic: the Northern Sea Route, the Northwest Passage, the Transpolar Sea Route, and the…

by | Nov 10, 2023

On Nov. 11, 1918, the fighting ended on the Western Front. “The Great War,” as it was known for a short time, was over. But the peace, such as it was, did not last, and, one generation later, the world…

by | Nov 8, 2023

The exuberance that accompanied the start of Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive has soured into uncertainty. A recent TIME magazine piece on Zelensky paints a picture of a man struggling to battle impatience in his American allies and corruption in his own…

by | Oct 14, 2023

Wartime pontiff Pope Pius XII has long been accused of failing to act in the face of Nazi atrocities, giving rise to the myth of “Hitler’s Pope.” But Vatican officials are working hard to debunk that myth and to share…

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