George Washington’s Twilight Years
A review of Washington’s End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle, by Jonathan Horn.
Inside the Circus
A review of the late John le Carré’s witty, charming, self-deprecating memoir. And a tribute …
Dark Days on the Continent
It is a pleasure to recommend the gripping and suspenseful A Hero of France, the 14th in a series of spy novels by Alan Furst set in the 1930s and ...
The GOP’s Spirit of ’96
He was a man of modest birth and a longtime Ohio congressman, with a passion for fiscal policy and a driving ambition for the White House. He sought to expand ...
In the Crucible
From 1754 to 1763, Britain and France were locked in a bitter, bloody struggle for control of North America. The conflict, which spread across the globe, could be considered the ...
Meeting Lincoln
‘Another damn’d, thick square book!” groused the Duke of Gloucester to Edward Gibbon on the publication of a volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and one ...
The Lion at Twilight
Whether the British Empire was truly, as Flashman author George MacDonald Fraser put it, “the greatest thing that ever happened to an undeserving world,” it was one of the dominant ...
The Great Abyss
It was the most momentous act of terrorism in history.
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire, his morganatic wife at his side, ...
A Political Man
Thomas Jefferson is not in vogue. His Democratic descendants long ago abandoned his philosophy of limited government, Republicans rarely invoke him, and scholars tend to focus on the gulf between ...