Reagan’s Fight for American Renewal, Revisited
The Gipper’s first inaugural address revived the concept of American exceptionalism, while stressing national unity.
American History
The Ridiculous Attacks on the 1776 Report
Anyone or anything that refuses to depict the American founding as anything but a wholly racist enterprise will be cast as a tool of white supremacy.
A Republic, Not a Democracy
The Capitol riot was a wake-up call: We must stop forsaking the virtues of republicanism and demand sound judgment from our elected representatives.
America’s Supposedly Socialist History
A new book makes the dubious case that American history has been a long fight against the free market.
Thirty-Two Years Later, Reagan Was More Right than Anyone Knew
Today, his warnings ring louder than ever...
A Portrait of Washington’s Greatness—and His Limitations
A review of First and Always: A New Portrait of George Washington, by Peter R. Henriques.
Pardons, Rivers, Etc.
On Ford's pardon of Nixon; the Rubicon and the Jordan; and more.
On Liberty
Richard Brookhiser and the American idea, i.e., liberty.
The Great American Divorce?
On David French’s new book, Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation.
How the Internet Has Revolutionized Research in the Humanities
The big new research boon in the humanities is Google Books, which allows whole-text searching of all the holdings of the greatest libraries in the world.