Rise to Global Power
Robert Merry sets out to revive William McKinley’s middling reputation by recognizing the 25th president as the shrewd, unheralded father of the military-commercial expansionism that underwrote America’s global ...
The Quest for Rules
There are many ways to experience the joys of overregulation, but friends tell me that one of the finest was a dinner date in Moscow circa 1986. First, you were ...
Rights Revisited
In the 1890s, in Utica, N.Y., there lived a small-time baker named Joseph Lochner. In surviving pictures, he looks like a Bavarian Yosemite Sam, and he had a personality to ...
Begaveled Neuroses
For Franklin Roosevelt’s most famous Supreme Court appointees — Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Hugo Black, and Robert Jackson — just getting to law school was the hard part. Frankfurter ...