I’ve given the Second World War a uniformly bad press, rejecting all attempts to depict it as a sensible proceeding or to mitigate its cruelty and swinishness. I have rubbed… ...
However unusual their nominations, Buchanan and Fillmore together embodied the nineteenth-century political system as it had been for decades. In this respect they did not suit the temper of the ...
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I led a virtual discussion of War and Peace, with the thought that someone else might enjoy reading the novel with me. Three thousand people ended up ...