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How to Take an Iconic Mugshot April 04, 2023
So you’re going to be arrested imminently: how do you prepare? I’ve dwelled on this question often since my arrest at sixteen, the ugliest age you can be. You draw on thick eyeliner and have even thicker acne, which you think you can cover with even ...
Kissinger Looks Back October 21, 2022
It is my privilege to have been a friend of Henry Kissinger’s for more than forty years. We have had some ups and downs, but my respect for him as a historian and architect of foreign policy has never wavered, and it is a particular pleasure of the l...
In Search of a Presidential Theory June 22, 2022
Peter J. Wallison reviews Patrick O'Brien's book,Presidential Control over Administration, which fails in providing a theory of presidential control....
What Would John Quincy Do? June 17, 2022
John Quincy Adams, claims the acclaimed pro-restraint scholar Angelo Codevilla in his posthumous new book America’s Rise and Fall among Nations (2022), is “the fount of American geopolitical thought.” Founts tend to spring intermittently and vary in ...
Book: Trump Proposed Launching Missiles at Drug Labs May 10, 2022
President Donald J. Trump in 2020 asked Mark T. Esper, his defense secretary, about the possibility of launching missiles into Mexico to “destroy the drug labs” and wipe out the cartels, maintaining that the United States’ involvement in a strike aga...
The Jazz Age President April 04, 2022
Poor Warren G. Harding, burdened with the distinction of being America’s pre-eminent presidential bottom-dweller. In surveys on White House performance, Harding invariably ranks dead last, with almost no prospect that he will ever climb the rankings ...
The Man in the Middle of Georgia's Elections April 01, 2022
Secretary of state races in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and other states could prove pivotal to the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. Stakes have never been higher, in part due to the role played by Brad Raffensperger of Georgia in the 2020 pr...
‘The Trials of Harry S. Truman’ Review March 23, 2022
Truman’s flaws are often seen as the unfortunate imperfections of a lovable curmudgeon. Maybe they were more than that....
‘One Damn Thing After Another’ Review: AG Confidential March 09, 2022
Attorney General Barr was Trump’s most helpful and influential ally. The president should have listened to him more often....
The End of the Beginning March 07, 2022
"Hitler in Radio Talk Predicts Nazi Victory"—Boston Daily Globe "American Captives Starved by Nazis"—New York Times"Washington the City Is Overcrowded, Badly Housed, Expensive, Crime-Ridden, Intolerant"—Harper’sIn April of 1945, life-altering events ...
What Joe Biden Can Learn From Harry Truman March 02, 2022
His approval rating hit historic lows, his party was fractious, crises were everywhere. But Truman rescued his presidency, and his legacy....
Dreams from My Presidency June 25, 2021
“Our democracy,” Barack Obama writes in the first pages of his third autobiography, A Promised Land, “seems to be teetering on the brink of crisis—a crisis rooted in a fundamental contest between two opposing visions of what America is and what it sh...
