February 26, 2023

COVID Aftermath: When Science Fiction Becomes Reality

Aaron Kheriaty.  The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State.  Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2022.  278 pages.  $29.99. Science fiction is a quintessentially guilty (Anglo-) American pleasure....

August 20, 2022

Forgiveness and Healing for Two Old Soldiers

Bob Welch. Saving My Enemy: How Two WWII Soldiers Fought against Each Other and Later Forger a Friendship That Saved Their Lives. Washington, DC: Regnery History. 366pp. $24.99. Among the fabled lore of Gen Xers and Millennials is the notorious ...

April 10, 2022

Searching for a New Conservatism

Yoram Hazony. Conservatism: A Rediscovery. Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 2022. 480pp. $29.99. On June 12, 1987, American president Ronald Reagan spoke at the famous Brandenburg Gate in what was then West Berlin, Germany.  During this ...

January 12, 2022

Alone at the Twilight of Empire

In his 1781 Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson famously reminded those Americans who dismissed the Amerindians they were in the process of subjugating as irredeemably savage that their own Northern European ancestors were likewise consi...

September 11, 2021

From Russia with Love

In the campy and not necessarily entirely family-friendly (it was the first movie to be released with the PG-13 rating in America) but nonetheless culturally significant 1984 film, Red Dawn, a group of teenagers wage a guerilla war against invading S...