History
America’s first socialist republic | Power Line
Paul A. Rahe holds the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship and is one of the country’s most distinguished scholars of history and…
Some say the Constitution has failed. This Thanksgiving, here’s why it hasn’t.
Thanksgiving invites us to pause and consider the gifts we often overlook. This year, at a moment of rising political unease and ideological confusion, I am especially grateful for one extraordinary inheritance: a nation and…
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…
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