The dispossession of the Indians—culminating in the late 1880s with the surviving tribes of the West being herded onto reservations—was the result of a corrupt and immoral relationship between certain Northern industrialists, particularly government-subsidized railroads, and the federal politicians whose careers they financed and promoted.
The centralized, executive state makes corruption at the top a political inevitability.
The contributors to this outstanding volume have grasped a simple but unfashionable truth: war is a great evil.
Peter Salins, Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, has good news. Americans need no longer worry about immigration, so long as a simple and straightforward plan is adopted: all immigrants must assimilate.
Great Britain learned an important lesson from World War I.
Jack Kemp, former HUD secretary and failed vice presidential candidate, recently proved that academic leftists aren't the only ones intolerant of politically incorrect ideas. He interrupted a luncheon speech I was giving at an academic conference by squirreling around in his seat, ostentatiously rolling his shoulders and eyes, and loudly and repeatedly moaning, "Jeez!" and "Oh Gawd!"
Conor Cruise O'Brien lets the mask drop on of his deplorable new book.
The conduct of contemporary American foreign policy flies in the face of the Constitution and much of our history.
My idea of a great president is one who acts in accordance with his oath of office to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." Not since the presidency of Grover Cleveland has any president achieved greatness by this standard. Worse, the most admired have been those who failed most miserably. Evidently my standard differs from that employed by others who judge presidential greatness.
David Frum's new collection of essays and columns is like the curate's egg good in parts.
