In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox.
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland’s bids for independence combined.
World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times – and our own wars.
We’ve all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.
An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein – and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.
Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.
I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.