Here’s To You, Mr. Robinson

February 1, 2011

“In the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Muslim world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind–too little food. Even today, Egypt still cannot feed itself. … There stands [...]

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A Good Time

January 30, 2011

From the March 2011 issue of America’s Civil War magazine, in the column “Harry’s just wild about…” by the excellent Bull Runnings blogger Harry Smeltzer, comes a review of The First Assassin: This is the first novel by author John J. Miller, who has three non-fiction titles under his belt and a fourth due out [...]

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Action Jackson

January 28, 2011

I mailed a copy of The First Assassin to the library at Ballou Senior High School in Washington, D.C., a couple of days ago, after reading this article: The literature section of Melissa Jackson’s library at Ballou Senior High School had 63 books one morning last week, not enough to fill five small shelves. In [...]

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Untold Stories

January 27, 2011

The name of the man accused of altering a Lincoln document at the National Archives appears in The First Assassin. In an author’s note, I list several of my sources–including The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell, by Thomas P. Lowry. The book describes prostitution in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. It contains a list [...]

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What’s Up, Document?

January 26, 2011

The National Archives has accused a researcher of changing the date on a document signed by Abraham Lincoln. Here’s the Washington Post account: The Archives on Monday accused [Thomas] Lowry of altering the pardon in plain view in the agency’s main research room to amplify its historical significance. Lincoln had indeed issued a pardon to [...]

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The Roots of American Order

January 25, 2011

Daniel J. Mahoney in The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order: “Liberty understood as pure freedom unconnected to larger ends and purposes fatally undermines the dialectics of truth and liberty, and liberty and virtue, that define truly human existence. There can be no liberty without authoritative traditions and institutions, or without openness to the demands [...]

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