History
Giving Thanks for the Pilgrims’ Legacy of Liberty
In a recent interview on Fox News, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch remarked, “We need to know our history in order to preserve it.” As we celebrate another Thanksgiving, that statement rings truer than ever, as many…
The Woman Behind Chester Arthur’s Redemption
The new Netflix series “Death by Lightning” (based on the fantastic book, “Destiny of the Republic”) tells the true story of President James Garfield’s assassination in 1881 and portrays the beginning of Chester Arthur’s…
WFB at 100 | Power Line
The death of William F. Buckley, Jr. on February 27, 2008, deprived the modern American conservative movement of its founder, for Buckley was preeminently the founding statesman of the movement that gained its political…
New biography presents FDR as one of America’s greatest political scoundrels
FDR: A New Political Life, by David T. Beito, Open Universe, 400 pages, $29.99 If there were any doubts that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of the greatest scoundrels of American political history, David…
What would Bill Buckley say about Trump?
How would William F. Buckley Jr., born 100 years ago in November, feel about the Trumpian takeover of the American conservative movement? Because Buckley lacked a solidly reasoned ideology, that question turns out to be…
The reparations circle | Power Line
I want to recommend Kentucky State professor of political science Wilfred Reilly’s Pacific Research Institute post “The Slavers Call for Reparations – We Go ‘On Metaphor Alert’ Again, as AU and EU Debate History.” Here are…
‘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…
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