From the monthly archives:

January 2010

The Horns of Moses

January 29, 2010

Whatever else The Da Vinci Code did, it forced me to look at Da Vinci’s painting of the Last Supper more closely than I’d ever looked at it before.
Dan Brown’s latest novel, The Lost Symbol, is less controversial than The Da Vinci Code. It’s not as good as a piece of entertainment, either. I’ve written [...]

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

January 28, 2010

WASHINGTON TIMES
February 7, 1998
A DEFINING TREATY FOR NATION’S DESTINY
JOHN J. MILLER

This week marks the 150th anniversary of the largest expansion of U.S. territory since the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. But you probably won’t hear much about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican War and delivered the American Southwest to the United [...]

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Home on the Red Grange

January 27, 2010

I’ve never recorded a podcast that begins as badly as the current one with Lars Anderson, author of The First Star: Red Grange and the Barnstorming Tour that Launched the NFL.
Lars kicks off the interview with an anecdote about the University of Michigan losing a football game. Talk about a fumble on the opening drive! [...]

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The Time It Never Rained

January 26, 2010

Here’s my contribution to the list of ten great American conservative novels, published in the current issue of NR:
The Time It Never Rained, by Elmer Kelton (1973): To say that Elmer Kelton wrote “Westerns” is to confine him to a literary ghetto. He certainly participated in the genre and wasn’t ashamed to do so. Yet [...]

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Conservative Lit 101

January 25, 2010

The new issue of National Review, dated February 8, 2010, carries a list of great conservative novels. A summary is here. Readers of this website played a role in its compilation, through e-mails sent to me and comments posted here. Thanks to all who offered their views.
Here’s the article’s first paragraph:
A few months ago, a [...]

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