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Donald Trump “shocked the world” when he won the United States presidential election in 2016 over the heavily favored and... Read More
An early chapter in James Comey's memoir A Higher Loyalty describes his role as prosecuting attorney in the trial of a senior leader of the... Read More
One of humanity's oldest pursuits is inventing machines that reduce the labor-hours needed to perform tasks. History offers hundreds of... Read More
When members of the National Socialist Party of America planned to march through the largely Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois, in... Read More
How should the religiously orthodox be disposed toward America? A number of leading contemporary Catholic intellectuals contend that we... Read More
For the September 2016 stop at Louisiana State University of his Dangerous Faggot Tour, Milo Yiannopoulos is dressed as his drag persona... Read More
As the world continues its Trumpian turn away from soft power towards the colder comforts of hard power, some moments now look like straws in... Read More
My self-justifications were feeble. They could be described as hypocritical even. I had written a book denouncing Facebook, yet maintained an... Read More
One of them was a publishing machine with scores of bestsellers under his belt. The other knew the White House like the back of his hand... Read More
immy Carter is today more highly regarded for his post-presidential humanitarian and diplomatic work than for his four years in the White... Read More
In early April, Southern Charm—a reality show about Charleston's aristocracy—invited viewers for a fifth season inside “the... Read More
n the late 1980s, as an undergraduate at Berkeley, my best friend somehow made the acquaintance of a much older lady—she was over 40,... Read More
Greenwich, July 1944. The sirens sounded once more, and the drum roll of the distant barrages resumed, getting louder as the firing crept... Read More
Maybe he should have thought twice before naming his magazine Rolling Stone... Read More
Foster Huntington recounts how he made his fantasy a reality and unknowingly launched a lifestyle movement in the process... Read More
A book by Jonathan Israel is, from the conclusion, about the United States and its occasional anti-Enlightenment mood swings... Read More
“I am glad you've read the Heart of D. tho' of course it's an awful fudge,†Joseph Conrad wrote to Roger Casement in late 1903. Casement, an Irish diplomat working for the British Foreign Office, had just returned to London from Belgium's African colony, the Congo Free State, and was about to submit a report to Parliament detailing the existence of a vast system of slavery used to extract ivor Read More
In pop culture, representations of police have tended with few exceptions to start with the vision of a righteous force on the side of the people. In the 1950s, Dragnetshowed Sergeant Joe Friday solving crimes with a cool professionalism. In the ongoing Law & Order franchise, detectives often trample civil liberties in pursuit of New York City's most vile criminals. Any violation of rights that oc Read More
