Michael Knox Beran

Mr. Beran, a lawyer, is the author of Forge of Empires: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861–1871, among other books.

Mr. Beran, a lawyer and writer, is the author of
Forge of Empires: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861–1871 and Murder by Candlelight, among other books.

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Books

Richard Brookhiser’s Give Me Liberty: A Manual for Patriots

By Michael Knox Beran November 7, 2019

A review of Give Me Liberty: A History of America’s Exceptional Idea.

U.S.

America’s Abandoned Places

By Michael Knox Beran August 22, 2019

Americans, nervous, aspiring, and perpetually in a hurry, have no patience with antiquity.

Law & the Courts

Yale Law School Devours Its Own

By Michael Knox Beran October 6, 2018

New Haven realism was supposed to redeem the nation. Instead it gave us New Haven Nietzscheanism.

Science & Tech

The Narrowing of the Elite: Part Two

By Michael Knox Beran September 29, 2018

The gospel of cyber-utopianism and globalist conformity preached by today’s elites is disfiguring the soul.

Science & Tech

The Narrowing of the Elite: Part One

By Michael Knox Beran September 19, 2018

A messianic faith in salvation through technology is monopolizing the talent of the nation.

Books

Decent Mediocrity

By Michael Knox Beran June 21, 2018

Michael Knox Beran reviews When the Center Held: Gerald Ford and the Rescue of the American Presidency, by Donald Rumsfeld.

Culture

The Magnanimous Magistrates

By Michael Knox Beran April 12, 2018

Why presidential character matters.

Lion in Winter

By Michael Knox Beran April 7, 2018

Editor's Note: The following first appeared in the June 16, 2008 issue of National Review. The press notices that followed the announcement that Senator Edward M. Kennedy has been diagnosed with ...