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My podcast conversation last week with Michael Walsh didnt allow time for consideration of his book Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost, but at length I recalled part of Leo Strausss critique of Edmund Burke in Natural Right and History, which remains a point of contention on the 3WHH between me and Lucretia.  Anyway, Strauss on this point: regarded it as possible that the victory of the

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Larry Pynn is a veteran environmental journalist who has received some 30 awards for his newspaper and magazine writing, including eight Jack Webster Awards. He has written two nonfiction books (Last Stands and The Forgotten Trail), and is a member of The Explorers Club. He lives in Maple Bay, British Columbia, and loves all things ocean — be it seafood, kayaking, hiking a

Tweet The Battle of Antietam, the Civil Wars deadliest one-day fight. (Thure de Thulstrup, public domain) There’s an old joke about the housewife who calls her husband on his cell phone during the evening commute. “Be careful, Dear,” she says. “The news says there’s a wrong-way driver on the Beltway.” “A wrong-way driver?” the husband shouts. “There are thousands of them!” This came to mind while enjoying Michael Walsh’s superb book Last Stands: Why Soldiers Fight When...

Never Say Die: Lessons From Michael Walsh’s ‘Last Stands’ Throughout history, men with their backs to the wall have time and again fought against overwhelming odds rather than surrender to their enemies. Why do they die battling to the last? What force drives them to fight on with rocks and fists after the blades of their swords are broken or their rifles are empty of bullets? In the book “Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost,” Epoch Times columnist Michael Walsh raises these q...

Not everyone will enjoy Michael Walsh’s Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost (St. Martin’s Press, 2020, 358 pages). His thoughts in the Introduction regarding masculinity and traditional reasons why men have fought wars since the dawn of history — to protect their women and children, their homes and homeland — may offend some. Remarks such as “The only culture that won’t defend itself is one bent on suicide” will rouse the ire of the cancel culture crew. He points out the d...

Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lostis not about dying, as the title might suggest, but about why people chose to live out their last moments in a certain way. The book covers famous episodes from antiquity to the early Cold War. The Battle of Thermopylae (480 B.C.) Cannae (216 B.C.) and the Teutoburg Forest (9 A.D.) Masada (73/74 A.D.) and Warsaw (1943) The Battle of Roncevaux Pass and La Chanson de Roland (778/1115) The Battle of Hastings (1066) The Last Stand of the Swiss Guard (1527)...

For the Conservative Reader: The Federalist’s Notable Books For 2020 Posted on Well, they say hindsight is 2020 — and thank God for that. Suffice to say, none of us are going to be wistfully blaring Ol’ Blue Eyes’ “It Was a Very Good Year” on New Year’s Eve. (Side note: Have you ever listened to the lyrics of that song? “It was a very good year / for blue-blooded girls of independent means.” Is Frank Sinatra being feminist or classist? I’m so confused.) Anyway, if we’re g...

AP Photo/Taimy Alvarez The world is arguably experiencing the first biowar in history. This is not to say that any country deliberately manufactured covid or released bioweapons, but as recent reporting from the New York Times shows, the Chinese government tried to exploit it politically, perhaps calculating that a pandemic would hurt more complex economies than simpler ones. A great power competition has crossed over into the biology of the planet. No ‘Negative’ News: How China Censored th...

AP Photo/File A position with strategic potential is one full of opportunities for improved prospects. By contrast, a strategic trap is where every path leads to a worse outcome. Although the American liberals seem poised to restart all projects abandoned in 2016, in reality, they may be leaving themselves with nowhere to go. The main problem with returning to the way things used to be is that institutions have been too badly damaged by the pandemic and its likely aftermath to afford former pra...