Some French Revolution history from Victor Davis Hanson: Almost everyone who originally had opposed the absolute monarchy, and, like the Americans, wished for a constitutional replacement, was eventually executed by revolutionaries who were then executed by more radical revolutionaries. The … Continue reading →
Here’s an obituary of Mary Quant, who practically invented the kicky women’s fashions of the 60s. I hadn’t thought about Quant in umpteen years. But looking at the photos there and at other articles about her brought back memories of … Continue reading →
It’s pretty much a standard thing now for people on the right to add the words “Nazi collaborator” (or something similar but even more extreme) to their descriptions of George Soros. But it’s not true that he was a Nazi … Continue reading →
Commenter “Bauxite” writes: So Trump had never seen Daniels before in his life except for a picture from a golf tournament? Then she shows up claiming to have had a tryst/affair with Trump during the same golf tournament and Trumpworld … Continue reading →
[NOTE: My previous post on Moyar’s earlier work, and on the battle among historians about the history of the Vietnam War, is here. For those of you who are unaware of my own history with the Vietnam War – which … Continue reading →
Now it can be told, apparently: Immunity acquired from a Covid infection provides strong, lasting protection against the most severe outcomes of the illness, according to research published Thursday in The Lancet — protection, experts say, that’s on par with … Continue reading →
And makes a fool of herself: Other than being Black, what exactly is Sowell’s expertise in slavery or history? Yeah, it’s kind of funny. But it’s also tremendously sad, because millions more young people absorb Hannah-Jones’ utterly mendacious work than … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Here’s a repeat of one of my earliest posts, written in my very first year of blogging: May, 2005. Back then I didn’t have all that many readers, so I thought I’d bring it out for another go-round.] I … Continue reading →
I’ve been hearing that we need a new Church Committee. Let’s take a look at the old one. The Church Committee in Congress was bipartisan. In fact, the committee was set up in the Senate in January of 1975 by … Continue reading →
This is a recent bald-faced lie told by the Biden administration: The Biden administration vastly overstated its estimate that employers created more than 1 million jobs in the second quarter of this year, claiming historic job growth when in fact … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a somewhat-edited version of a previous post.] Today is the eighty-first anniversary of the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. The generation that reacted to it by mobilizing and fighting World War II is on its very … Continue reading →
The CDC is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study. I’m going to assume that a lot of misleading stuff will be written about that study, so I’m linking to a post I wrote … Continue reading →