Reading Time: 3 minutes Conventional wisdom, especially when its purveyors have a moralistic bent, is a precarious guide to reality
Author: Pat Murphy
The US Civil War ended 150 years ago this month
Reading Time: 3 minutes The number of related military deaths easily surpassed the combined total of American fatalities from both World Wars
Democratic presidents and the trouble with Russia
Reading Time: 3 minutes A little humility would have served Roosevelt, Kennedy and Obama well when dealing with Russia
Niqabs, millennials symbols of the age of entitlement
Reading Time: 3 minutes 2 recent op-eds in the National Post bear little resemblance to the real world
Could the Cold War have been avoided if Roosevelt had lived?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Stalin’s habit of doing precisely what he could get away with made the Cold War inevitable
US middle class shifting to GOP
Reading Time: 3 minutes While bad news for Democrats, predicting US political realignment is a tricky business
If Bobby Kennedy had been more like Margaret Thatcher
Reading Time: 3 minutes History may have played out differently if Kennedy had shown Thatcher’s political courage
The 2016 Republican race could be a real nail-biter
Reading Time: 3 minutes The GOP has some of the strongest candidates since 1980
Elvis Presley at 80
Reading Time: 3 minutes If he were alive today Elvis would be a Republican