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Putting aside whether Adams’ pointed rhetoric helps anyone, including himself, the tensions between the city and the White House are palpable, writes Julian Zelizer.

In two new books, the historians Adrian Goldsworthy and Tom Holland portray an empire that knew how to hold back from a fight and make room for upstarts.

Victor Davis Hanson on translating popularity into policy.

The book Partisans is a product of con­temporary political discourse—made up of cut-and-paste, second- and third-hand source-filled rants—that fails to pass for serious scholarship.

When the progressive woke revolution took over traditional America, matters soon reached the level of the ridiculous.

There is still time left to rescue the past, present, and future from William MacAskill’s ide­ological future savers.

Author Jacob Soll's commitment to an untenable historical thesis distorts the facts.

Author Jacob Soll's commitment to an untenable historical thesis distorts the facts.

The book Partisans is a product of con­temporary political discourse—made up of cut-and-paste, second- and third-hand source-filled rants—that fails to pass for serious scholarship.

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