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For the Coming American Atatürk
2,325 words If some all-knowing, extraterrestrial school teacher sent out report cards on all the dictators who have flourished since World War I, we might be surprised to find the only one with...
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The Extraordinary Woman from the Midwest
Phyllis Schlafly’s critique of the Republican Party changed its focus and direction. 2,020 words Phyllis Schlafly A Choice Not an Echo Alton, Ill.: Pere Marquette Press, 1964 Many of the greatest...
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Walter Duranty & the New York Times: “All the News That’s Fit to Print”
Walter Duranty 2,600 words “The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weaker man with the sponge. First, the criminal who slays, then the sophist who defends the slayer.” — Lord Acton “There is...
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Revilo Oliver on America’s Decline
2,065 words Revilo P. Oliver America’s Decline: The Education of a Conservative Sussex, England: Historical Review Press, 2006 If there is anything that shows the state of the Dispossessed Majority...
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The Fall of the Neoliberal Order
3,925 words Gary Gerstle The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: American and the World in the Free Market Era New York: Oxford University Press, 2022 Professor Gary Gerstle teaches at Oxford...
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FDR & His Triumvirate of Stooges
2,825 words “We are determined that nothing shall stop us from sharing with you all that we have . . . Generations unborn will owe a great measure of freedom to the unconquerable power of the Soviet...
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Toward a New Political Cosmogony for The Republic
The Apotheosis of Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1865 2,695 words The US midterm elections have come and gone and not much has changed in the world because of them. The consensus among my esteemed colleagues...
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The Broad, Sunlit Uplands: Year-End Reflections for 2022
4,539 words On November 24, 2022, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) tweeted a Thanksgiving message starting with, ”This year has been tough in many ways . . .” I don’t understand the Anti-Defamation...
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Whittaker Chambers: The Quaker Who Exposed Communism in the US, Part 2
2,189 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Chambers planned his escape carefully and made his move in 1938. He hid some documents, including some papers and films that Hiss had intended to give to the...
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Robert Rutherford McCormick, Midwestern Man of the Right: Part 2
Col. Robert McCormick during the First World War. 1,945 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Military mid-level management McCormick’s military career couldn’t be replicated today. In today’s United States...
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The Confession of a Political Pilgrim
The author at the Bay of Pigs. 3,130 words Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy. — Fidel Castro A book that deserves the encomium of “classic” in the study of the...
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Liberal Anti-Democracy, Chapter 5, Part 1: Democracy Against the People
President Lyndon Johnson signing the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act into law, surrounded by his supporters. 3,031 words Part 6 of 9 (Chapter 1 here, Chapter 4 Part 2 here, Chapter 5 Part 2 here) When...
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It’s Time to Wind Down the Empire of Nothing
1,921 words Patrick J. Buchanan A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America’s Destiny Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1999 See also: “The Collapse of British Power,” “The Audit of War,”...
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Richard Hanania’s The Origins of Woke
2,052 words Richard Hanania’s The Origins of Woke is Christopher Caldwell’s excellent book, The Age of Entitlement, but in a less sober and more opinionated tone, and with more speculation on what’s to...
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Some Thoughts about Virtue Regimes
“Those who oppose Chairman Mao: We will crush their doghead.”–Red Guards poster 2,580 words In our country we wish to substitute morality for egotism, probity for honour, principles for conventions,...
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Gerald P. Nye: American Patriot and Midwestern Isolationist, Part 2
Republican Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota. 3,351 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) North Dakota’s newspaperman Understanding how Americans were duped into entering the First World War while...
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Hitler the Peacemaker: David L. Hoggan’s The Forced War, Part 4
Winston Churchill and Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax 1,907 words Part 4 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here, Part 5 here) Hitler’s cancellation of military operations for August 26 left him with only five...
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Hitler the Peacemaker: David L. Hoggan’s The Forced War, Part 5
Hitler issuing his declaration of war against Poland in the Reichstag on September 1, 1939. 2,746 words Part 5 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 4 here) A German war with Poland was now a certainty, but a new...
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My (Belated) End-of-Year Book Roundup
3,939 words This was supposed to be a year-end book roundup, but I had a difficult end of year. So for the present I’ll pretend this is the 53rd or 54th week of 2023 (a nasty year altogether). When my...
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Archibald Roosevelt: A Brave Captain of the First World War, Part 1
Captain Archibald Roosevelt during the First World War. 2,368 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt was born in 1894 to Theodore and Edith (Carow) Roosevelt in Washington, DC...
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Archibald Roosevelt: Anti-Communist Activist and White Advocate, Part 2
The Fabian Window is a work of stained glass which portrays prominent socialists as religious figures. The goal of the Fabian Society was to achieve socialist principles through the Fabian Strategy —...
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Democracy: Its Uses and Annoying Bits
1,860 words I enjoyed Fred Reed’s April 24 essay “Ignorance, Its Uses and Nurture,” which refers to universal suffrage in anything larger than a small town as a “crackpot” idea. In a mere thousand...
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A Career Worth Reviewing: The Life of Lieutenant General George Van Horn...
George Moseley (right) testifies before the Dies Committee on May 31, 1939. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons) 3,716 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) The Crisis Years The Roaring Twenties ended with a...
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Day of Deceit
2,454 words Robert B. Stinnett Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor Free Press, 1999 You know how Copernicus began his study of the heavenly bodies not to refute Ptolemy’s geocentric...
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Ike Is My Shepherd
166 words Ike is my shepherd. I shall live in want. He leadeth me beside still factories of the world. He restoreth my doubt in the Republican party. He putteth bayonets in the backs of young school...
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