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How Rose Wilder Lane challenged and mentored Frank Meyer
Rose Wilder Lane, one of the founding mothers of modern libertarianism, and Frank Meyer, one of the founding fathers of modern conservatism, spent a decade engaged in friendly debate. They both did some work for the Volker…
Rosenwald & Washington | Power Line
This past June we published three posts by Chris Flannery on Mark Twain. These posts were the surplus of Chris’s Claremont Review of Books review “Pure gold and his American Mind column “To absquatulate.” The review, the…
What caused the serial killing spike of the 1970s and ’80s?
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers, by Caroline Fraser, Penguin Press, 480 pages, $32 The Pacific Northwest produced an appalling roster of serial killers in the 1970s and '80s, some of whom…
Bill Campenni: On V-J Day
Our old friend William Campenni is a retired engineer and a 33-year Air Force/Air National Guard fighter pilot. He served in the same Texas Air National Guard as President Bush and has exposed the absurdities of the CBS News…
Knossos presents dueling ideas of Greek history
The world's most glorious monument to fakery, outshining even Las Vegas and the Disney archipelago, is Knossos, the Greek site containing the legendary Palace of Minos. There are real ruins at this place—remnants of a…
Was the Bill of Rights a bad idea? Some Founding Fathers thought so.
What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the U.S. Constitution? For many people, the answer probably involves one of the famous individual liberties that are spelled out in the Bill of Rights, such…
Archaeology breakthrough as ‘scientists discover Moses’ name’ in Ancient Egyptian mine | History | News
The discovery and reading of an incredible 3,800-year-old inscription has the potential to answer one of archaeology's most difficult questions. In Abrahamic religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Moses was a…
Leclerc at Dachau | Power Line
This is my final note on Free France’s Lion, General Philippe Leclerc, at least for the time being. As I have observed in these notes, Leclerc was a man of sterling character. It shines forth from the pages of William…
Downfall | Power Line
It was 80 years ago yesterday that we dropped the big one on Hiroshima. I pulled down my copy of Richard B. Frank’s Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire in honor of the day. What an excellent book. Given current…
Why we dropped the bomb
It was 80 years ago today…that we dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This is adapted from a post I wrote in 2016. Please forgive my anachronistic citation of Barrack Obama. He can stand in for proponents of the revisionism…
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