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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough, who died last week at 89, was the preeminent historian of his generation. McCullough wrote 12 widely read books but wisely avoided a university affiliation, which is one reason his writing was so lively. Although he wrote books on a wide variety of subjects, almost always in the realm of American history, he was and will be forever known for his link to the American presidency.
From the end of the Cold War until recently, the West subsisted on a diet of delusions about China. Economic liberalization, the United States told itself, would lead to political liberalization. Beijing would be content to follow in an American-led world order.
There's a whole lot of crazy going on this week, and it's only Monday. • The latest issue of the New York Review of Books, which I read so that you don't have to (it's opposition research) always offer a fill of amusement. There's a James Mann review of yet another new book on Robert Welch and the John Birch Society, and you can just guess the theme of the
UP to 180 dairy farmers and service providers from the South East are expected to be in attendance for the […]
A former member of Congress and a prominent foe of President Richard Nixon is launching a new bid for Congress in what she said was an effort to take on former President Donald Trump.