U.S. History - after 1945

One of the paradoxes of the early twenty-first century is that the era’s rhetoric simultaneously contains self-righteous diatribes against w...

Modern political liberty, usually residing in the structure of freely-elected representatives, is based on a view of the relationship betwee...

The years of the Cold War, roughly 1946 to 1990, were marked by a curious asymmetry: the nations of liberty in western Europe and North Amer...

Between 1946 and 1990, U.S. policies were, to say the least, inconsistent. From FDR’s apparent friendly trust in Stalin’s agreements to Harr...

At some point during the Cold War, there was a shift in emphasis among those who wished to undermine and overthrow both the United States go...

Andrew Ferguson’s book about the college application process contains, in passing, a vignette about Harvard and about the typical Harvard al...

Even the best-organized modern nation-state does not always act in its own best interests, or, even more to the point, in the best interests...