History
Remembering Gettysburg | Power Line
The Battle of Gettysburg is the great pivot on which American history turns. At Gettysburg, in July 1863, the Army of the Potomac under George Meade stopped Robert E. Lee’s invasion of the North. If the battle had gone the…
Justice Jackson’s Troubled Close to the 2024 Term
Ketanji Brown Jackson is a justice seeking to establish her legacy. By some lights, her mere presence as the first black women on the Supreme Court is already a legacy-cementing fact. To her credit, she understands that…
‘Lost city of Atlantis FOUND’ — Archaeologist makes shock claim after | History | News
The fabled city of Atlantis, long dismissed as mere myth, may finally have been discovered—just two miles off the coast of Cádiz, Spain, according to a bombshell new claim reported by MailOnline.Plato's ancient writings…
Personal & confidential: My dinner with Bill
In my profile of William F. Buckley, Jr. in this series, I referred to the dinner with Buckley at which I was an invited guest of Jeffrey Hart writing a story for the daily Dartmouth College student newspaper. Buckley had…
Yes, you could be both openly gay and conservative in the ’80s
The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983–1994, by Thomas Mallon, Knopf, 592 pages, $40 Writing in 1985, arguably the worst year of the AIDS crisis, the leftist columnist Christopher Hitchens attacked closeted gays who…
Chuck Chalberg: Of cabbages & No Kings
John C. “Chuck” Chalberg is professor emeritus of history at Normandale Community College in the Twin Cities. He is the author of Rickey and Robinson: The Preacher, the Player, and America’s Game and Emma Goldman: American…
Chris Flannery: Mark Twain & Sir Walter Scott
Christopher Flannery is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute and a contributing editor of the Claremont Review of Books. With the publication of Ron Chernow’s new biography, this is once again the season of Mark Twain.…
Eisenhower on Lee | Power Line
One of wokism’s many unpleasant aspects is its mania for erasing the past. Thus, we have efforts to take down statues, especially of Confederate generals, although other figures from our past, like Christopher Columbus and…
Comic: Henry Hazlitt in One Lesson
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Restoring the Navajo-Churro sheep population
The course of Lyle McNeal's life changed in 1972. Then a professor in California Polytechnic State University's Animal Science Department, McNeal led the college's Boots and Spurs club on a weeklong trip to the…
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