A True Hero of Liberty
Baron József Eötvös de Vásárosnamény I met my old friends Ivan Csaba, whom I knew from the old days, as well as from Oxford, and Tamás Meszerics, whom I had…
History
A Great Approach to History
My friend Steve Davies, a truly wonderful lecturer on history, gave a great talk yesterday on the nature of history at this IES Europe seminar. A precis of it can…
Goodbye, Boris Yeltsin
He left a very mixed legacy, notably the disastrous war in Chechnya, but no one had ever tried to undo 70 years of insanity before. As the old joke in…
National Socialism Appraised Early On
David’s Medienkritik, which reports on media coverage in Germany, has done a signal service by making available an essay by S. Miles Bouton from The American Mercury, “Why Germany Endures…
A Day to Celebrate!
“Due to the situation which has evolved as a result of the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent states I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of president of…
Muslim Basher Robert Spencer Upset at my Dismissal of his Book
Don’t Bother: It’s Not Worth the Effort Robert Spencer, author of one of the trashiest and least enlightening books I’ve read, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)…
The Story of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 Retold
(Budapest, 1956: Note the hole in the flag) I saw the movie Freedom’s Fury, about the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, this evening in the enormous Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C. at…
The End of Republics
Pompey the Great Robert Harris, the author of the excellent book Fatherland and of the new book (I’ve not read it, as I gave my brand new copy to Jose…
Absorbing Immigrants
Roots of American Success My friend Don Boudreaux has a great column on the issue of immigration, “Absorption Nation.” He addresses one narrow claim, viz. that the United States cannot…
An Excellent Book!
I just finished Mancur Olson’s last book, Power and Prosperity and I’m pleased to report that it’s a real page-turner. I learned almost as much from it as I did…