History Unfolding

This may be a long post! My prediction turned out to be pretty accurate, although Justice Kennedy decided to side with his conservative br...

I had intended yesterday's post to suffice for this weekend, and I suggest that you turn to it first; but since nearly everyone seems to...

Robert Caro is, for the time being at least, the last of a breed. Grand-scale biography has been an important part of the western tradition...

This week's post essentially follows up on a number of fairly recent ones, drawing in part on news and commentary in the press. It'...

In order to deal with 50 comments-a-week flow of right-wing spam that I received, I have had to ban anonymous comments. To comment you must...