Spinning Clio

National Review has an interview with Bill Bennett about his new popular history book, America: The Last Best Hope . Here are a couple thi...

It's now official: yesterday I graduated from Providence College with an MA in History. The commencement speaker was actor John O...

I previously noted that Charles Rappleye's Sons of Providence : The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution , abou...

Some guys who call themselves The Founders are all blogging about current events. Here's George , Alex , Ben , Tom , John and Jim . I...

Marine archeaologists have been poking around Newport, RI for a few years now. Part of the motivation has been to determine whether or not ...

John Podhoretz (sub. req'd.--free) explains how the American Idol voting patterns can teach us--particularly the young, I'd add--ab...

The Celts were more sophisticated than the Romans in some aspects. Celtic culture and history isn't my area, except where it bumps up ...

Urged on by John Derbyshire and an anonymous reader , Johah Goldberg revised and extended (a bit) his column on conservative populism. De...

Jonah Goldberg --noting that conservatism was born in Edmund Burke's reaction to the populism of the French Revolution--explains why the...

Michael Powell argues in " U.S. Immigration Debate Is a Road Well Traveled" that, well, history is repeating itself. The bitter a...

Sons of Providence : The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution by Charles Rappleye has been getting some positive re...

Ralph Luker has called attention to an incident in which he took issue with my usage of the term " RINO " within the context of a...

We've heard Iraq War commentary, second-guessing and "what-if" scenarios from historians and generals and now retired genera...

RALPH PETERS notes that globalization may indeed be ocurring for the 21st century aristocrats, but it is also reinforcing tribal identity a...

Joshua Zeitz reviews Charles Rappleye's new book, Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution ...

I'm for using common sense on this whole immigration thing, which includes not conflating immigration with "illegal" immigrati...

Todd Gitlin wrote an autopsy on the Academic Left, but David French makes an important point: [Gitlin's] opening [paragraph] is a temp...

Nicolas Tenzer doesn't think today's mass media is doing democracy any favors (What? With so many people getting their "news...

Strategypage (" The News as History ") military blogger Harold Hutchinson writes in TCS Daily : Milblogger efforts have shown tha...

James Pinkerton thinks that the generals calling for SecDef Rumsfeld's head may be trying a c.y.a. maneuver in case H.R. McMaster dec...