History
‘Grand Narrative History’ Is Needed Now More Than Ever
History is too important to be left to academia, especially in an age of crumbling institutional trust. On a recent episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson spoke about the remarkable collection of talent…
Democrats offer a false choice between socialism and technocracy
The unity that once held the Democratic Party together has given way to ideological meandering, oscillating between "woke" moralistic left-wing populism and technocratic managerialism. These two impulses now define…
Frank S. Meyer and the history of fusionism
With The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer, Daniel J. Flynn has produced a biography valuable to both political novices and serious students of the conservative movement. Laymen will gain from…
Jerry Garcia biography explores counterculture history
Former Los Angeles Times man Jim Newton, in his book Here Beside the Rising Tide, picked a representative subject through which to judge the achievements and excesses of the 1960s counterculture: Grateful Dead guitarist and…
The Supreme Court’s next big immigration case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed this week to reenter the fractious national debate over immigration by taking up a new case, which asks whether asylum seekers who present themselves at the U.S. border may be lawfully turned…
New Pendragon Cycle Trailer Reveals Character of Merlin
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Daily Wire is releasing a new trailer for its forthcoming series, “The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin,” which producer Dallas Sonnier celebrates as representing “the intersection of great…
America is in a golden age. Are we headed toward a Roman ending?
We media types obsess about America's problems. But we should acknowledge that today, life in America is better than life has been anywhere, ever. For most of history, the norm was hunger, disease, illiteracy, slavery,…
Tucker Carlson goes full truther
In the course of his long descent into the gutter, Tucker Carlson has taken another look into 9/11. When he posted his five-part 9/11 Files “truther” series earlier this year, I thought of the 2006 book Popular Mechanics had…
Excerpt from ‘The Idea Machine’ by Joel J. Miller
In The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco describes a labyrinthine monastic library large enough to lose oneself in. The novelist didn't mention how many books filled its rooms, but John O. Ward of the University of Sydney…
The forgotten lawyer who fought Jim Crow
In the early months of 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court decided two cases that might not initially appear to share anything in common. In Tyson and Brother v. Banton, the Supreme Court struck down a New York law forbidding the…
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