Why We Must Teach Western Civilization
The legacy of our culture is unsurpassed in human history; to ignore it is an act of rank self-hatred.
Still Deranged
In December 2003, Dr. Charles Krauthammer diagnosed a new mental disorder, Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS), which he defined as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction ...
The Epic of Canada
All too often Americans have taken Canada for granted — “Our Giant Neighbor to the North” has been voted the magazine headline most likely to make them turn the page ...
City of Lights
‘From the moment it began,” argues Michael Neiberg, a history professor at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., “the liberation of Paris was an almost mythical affair.” He is ...
The Final Roar
Very many Americans came to admire Winston Churchill through the first two volumes of William Manchester’s The Last Lion series, namely Visions of Glory (1983) and Alone (1988). They were ...
Shoring Up Fragments
Conservatives have long understood the importance of fighting the cultural war against the Left simultaneously with the much more straightforward and easily delineated economic and political wars. In many ways, ...
God Save Her
February marks a truly historic moment in Britain: the 60th anniversary of the accession to the throne of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. It’s only the second diamond jubilee in ...
The Anatomy of Lunacy
How can a nation founded on a Constitution that, in its logic and rationality, is “the crown jewel of the Enlightenment” have so fallen prey to conspiracy theorists that today ...
A Just War
World War II has always been presented as “a good war” from the point of view of the Allies, who strove to destroy the undeniably great evil of Fascism, but ...
Graveyard of a Cliché
In the lexicon of the Left, the adjective “unconquerable” has now attached itself to the noun “Afghanistan” just as indelibly as the adjective “illegal” once attached itself to the noun ...