For years I have been waiting for this moment—the republication, courtesy of Ark Press, of Fitzpatrick’s War, by Theodore Judson, and the first appearance of its sequel, The Timerman. What Judson offers in these...
When reading a work of politics or history, substance tends to overshadow quality. Whether the writing is felicitous, whether it has that rare, compelling “flash,” is too often ignored, even though it is writing...
Materialism, the ideology which believes that everything in the universe can be explained by causes and effects tied to matter, has had a bad twenty-first century. It is not so much that it has...
This is a strange book. Christopher Lasch, who published The Culture of Narcissism in 1979, wrote this sociological study at what seemed like the nadir of American vitality. His book freezes in time the...
Americans, sadly, know almost nothing about the history of Persia. Of itself, this doesn’t mean a great deal, since most Americans don’t know much about the history of anywhere. But today, as America attacks...
An evil stench has accompanied the term “new world order” ever since George H. W. Bush used it in 1990, formally inaugurating the American Regime’s attempt to subjugate the globe to Left hegemony, dubbed...
A few months ago, I showed our young children 1977’s “Smokey and the Bandit.” As with so many movies that are more than twenty years old, watching it is like stepping into a different,...
Cicero described Julius Caesar as a man “of supreme daring, hardened to every risk.” In our hyper-feminized age, such men seem nonexistent, though more likely they are quietly biding their time, and will emerge...
In the perhaps-unfortunate words of the Declaration of Independence, men “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The words are unfortunate,...
Tim Wu is the Jeremiah of our age. For twenty years, his has been one of the very few nuanced voices attacking concentrations of economic power as destructive of a flourishing society. Yes, others...
