Reconsidering Franklin D. Roosevelt

Reconsidering Franklin D. Roosevelt

FDR: A New Political Life By David T. Beito.  Open Universe, 2025.  Paperback, 284 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg.  Did the presidency of Herbert Hoover and the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt actually prolong what today might be remembered as the “panic of...
A Forgotten Russian Immigrant Poet in Hollywood

A Forgotten Russian Immigrant Poet in Hollywood

Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood By Alexander Voloshin. Translated by Boris Dralyuk. Paul Dry Books, 2026. Paperback, 98 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. When my oldest son was little, every Saturday morning I would bundle him into the car for the hour and a...
The British Empire on Trial

The British Empire on Trial

Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning By Nigel Biggar. William Collins, 2023. Hardcover, 480 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Daniel J. Fischer. The urge to write history can strike almost anyone. Authors of major works of history in recent decades include people with graduate...
From the Man Who Loved America

From the Man Who Loved America

Fighting Enemies Foreign and Domestic: The Legacy of Angelo M. Codevilla Edited by Ryan P. Williams. Encounter Books, 2025.  Hardcover, 128 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. If the title of this collection of essays written in memory of and tribute to the...
After the New Left: Rereading Breaking Ranks

After the New Left: Rereading Breaking Ranks

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...