Hemingway Revisited

Hemingway Revisited

by | Nov 15, 2026

By Patrick J. Walsh. Ernest Hemingway may well be the most famous novelist of the twentieth century. A career journalist, he knew how to manufacture a public persona of himself as a sportsman, hunter, hard drinker, globe-trotter, sexually promiscuous “He-Man”—...
Winston Churchill’s Path to Leadership

Winston Churchill’s Path to Leadership

by | Sep 20, 2026

My Early Life: A Roving Commission By Winston S. Churchill. Edited by James W. Muller. St. Augustine’s Press, 1930/2025.  Hardcover, 608 pages, $50.  Reviewed by Frank A. von Hippel. Winston Churchill was a prolific and ambitious writer, for which he was...
How Charlotte Brontë Became Charlotte Brontë

How Charlotte Brontë Became Charlotte Brontë

by | Jul 19, 2026

The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: A New Life By Graham Watson. Pegasus, 2025. Hardcover, 288 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Paul Krause. Today, everyone knows Charlotte Brontë as the author of Jane Eyre. That wasn’t always the case. During her own lifetime, she had...
Michigan’s Neglected Civil War Governor

Michigan’s Neglected Civil War Governor

by | May 10, 2026

Radical of Radicals: Austin Blair—Civil War Governor—In His Own Words By Jack Dempsey. Mission Point Press, 2025. Paperback, 360 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Miles Smith IV. In every intelligent history of the Civil War Era, the major players show up on stage, right on...
After the New Left: Rereading Breaking Ranks

After the New Left: Rereading Breaking Ranks

by | Mar 1, 2026

By John C. “Chuck” Chalberg. The recent death of Norman Podhoretz prompted me to return to his “political memoir,” Breaking Ranks. Published in 1979, it deserves to be read or re-read today—and not simply as a historical account of his evolution from left to right...