O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children
July 2, 2026An Imperialist, a warmonger, blind to what was in front of him, the critics say. A...
A Boy’s View of a World War
July 2, 2026The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to...
Julian The Apostate
July 1, 2026But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
Imag(in)ing America
July 1, 2026The confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was to the Italians the “political, intellectual, and...
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
June 30, 2026Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech
June 30, 2026Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades...
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
June 27, 2026They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
Curses on You, White Men!
June 26, 2026The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of...
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
June 26, 2026Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
June 24, 2026For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....




