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Russia Enters the Railway Age, 1842–1855 (Richard Mowbray Haywood)

The history of nineteenth-century Russia does not get much attention in the West, and what little it does get usually focuses on people and...

Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America (Jim Rasenberger)

Every so often, some cretin threatens me on X, formerly known as Twitter. These soyboy types tend to lead by saying I appear weak...

The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (Jonathan Phillips)

In the classic 1970s Irish Republican Army anthem “My Little Armalite,” the lyrics include “Well the army came to visit me, ’twas in the...

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (Christopher Lasch)

It is common knowledge that the vast majority of sociology is completely worthless, or worse than worthless, and that “social science” is an oxymoron....

The Ancient City (Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges)

Two things about the past are simultaneously true. First, that men and women of history, even distant history, were not, in their essence, different...

Against Gross Domestic Product

If twenty-first-century America has an idol, a graven image we collectively worship, it is Gross Domestic Product. All discussion about the flourishing of our...

Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief (Ronald Hutton)

Most know about the English Civil War, and that it ended with the execution of Charles I, in 1649. But this is not really...

The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol (Carl Schmitt)

In this challenging book, Carl Schmitt analyzes the modern state through the life and death of the Leviathan state of Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan, the...

The Martian General’s Daughter (Theodore Judson)

What is America? This may seem like a strange question to ask after reading a book titled The Martian General’s Daughter. But it is...

A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South (Peter Cozzens)

I have long been fascinated by the wars between the European settlers of America and those whom they conquered and displaced, the American Indians....

On Private Justice

For eighty years, Superman’s motto was “Truth, Justice, and the American Way!” In 2020, at the apogee of unchallenged Left power, it changed to...

Holy Rus’: The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia (John P. Burgess)

Americans don’t understand the Russians. Americans don’t even try to understand the Russians, for the most part. I don’t understand the Russians, even if...