Reading Time: 3 minutes Betraying the electorate triggers powerful negative emotions
Tag: History
Conventional wisdom and the fall of Saigon
Reading Time: 3 minutes Conventional wisdom, especially when its purveyors have a moralistic bent, is a precarious guide to reality
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
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
Not even the Supreme Court is above the law
Reading Time: 3 minutes Magna Carta’s 800th anniversary reminds us to kneel to no one
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
World crises a clash of moral values
Reading Time: 4 minutes Western ignorance of the moral character of the struggle is leading to many mistakes