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…

The original Hollywood adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s bestselling 1929 novel All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts neues) hit America’s movie houses in April of 1930. Considering that the first talkie, The Jazz Singer — a semi-talkie, really, in…

Illinois “Republican” Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a worshiper deep in the heart of the Trump-hating cult that is symbolized by the corrupt, anti-Constitution January 6 Committee, made the Washington Post’s headlines the other day by saying this: GOP member of Jan….

The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding By Ryan S. Walters (Regnery, 224 pages, $29.99) America is in a frightful mess just now, what with rampant inflation, record crime, violence on our streets, an open southern border that has…

As Vladimir Putin forges ahead with his invasion of Ukraine, killing all manner of Ukrainian civilians in a horrific display of mass murder, the saga of Gavrilo Princip is recalled. Who was Gavrilo Princip? He was a Bosnian Serb teenager…

Tuesday History is a great help in understanding today and tomorrow. Specifically, what we are seeing right now shows how thoughtfully Mr. Putin has read and understood his progenitor in statecraft, Adolf Hitler. As everyone once knew, World War I…

When you walk the Fredericksburg battlefield, especially near the stone wall at the base of Mayre’s Heights (which is just beyond the National Park’s visitor’s center), there is an eerie feeling of tragedy mixed with bewilderment and awe. The battle…

Three weeks past my 15th birthday, I attended the New York Giants-Brooklyn Dodgers football game at the Polo Grounds with my friend Burt Boyar and 55,000 fans. At half-time, the stadium announcer read a long list of names — high-ranking…