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No Mere Mistake December 15, 2021
On March 24, 1960, the small though influential biweekly Human Events published the following earthshaking claim: “Millions of American men and women would gladly have given their lives if it meant ending World War II a day sooner than it did. I beli...
Defounding America April 30, 2021
To gauge how unbridgeable the gulf is that divides the American Left from the Right, rewind to February 19, 2009, when those who eventually elected Donald Trump first made their voices heard. As Washington jury-rigged fixes for the Great Financial Cr...
Deplorable Churchill? July 02, 2019
Nigel Hamilton's third and final volume on FDR's war leadership, War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945, is, like his earlier two books, an homage to the President's strategic sagacity. FDR's nemesis is Churchill, whose own stra...
FDR's Final Act June 18, 2019
Awraith stares out from the dust jacket of the final volume of Nigel Hamilton's trilogy on Franklin Roosevelt at war. FDR is wrapped in his navy cape at Yalta in February 1945, where he met with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin to settle the postw...
When Conservatism Met Progressivism June 07, 2019
The rise of ideology in late-nineteenth-century America presented challenges beyond those inherent in the political, economic, and cultural changes of the time. By the early twentieth century, progressivism had become a powerful force—a movement decl...
Churchill, Roosevelt and the "Special Relationship" May 20, 2017
For two and a half centuries, the “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain has had enormous influence on the world stage. It has endured and even thrived through the great challenges of modern history, including the grim bat...
The Complex War Legacy of FDR April 26, 2017
FDR is generally considered to have been a great wartime leader, even among conservatives....
Roosevelt, Jesus and the Great Depression February 20, 2017
In Depression South, Roosevelt tried, failed at co-op farms for stricken poor....
Did FDR Know He Was Dying? September 26, 2016
