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…
We recently commemorated another “Veterans Day” — known by an earlier generation as Armistice Day. On November 11, 1918, the guns on the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of war. The First World War — what…
As tensions increase between China and the United States over the South China Sea and Taiwan, American strategists and statesmen might benefit from reading two recent fictional accounts of a future Sino-American war. Those novels — Ghost Fleet by P.W….
British historian Paul Johnson’s 1983 book Modern Times is a brilliant and eminently readable history of the world from the end of the First World War to the early 1980s (Johnson later updated it in 1992). Some of Johnson’s vivid descriptions…