In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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Brandan P. Buck
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Over the last eight weeks of war with Iran, America’s two deliberative institutions, Congress and the media, have largely abandoned their duty to sustain public debate on the most important question a republic can face—the choice between war and peace. Neither institution performed perfectly during the Global War on Terror. Yet on Capitol Hill there…
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Gems of American History: The Lecturer’s Art, by Walter McDougall. Encounter Books, 2025, 336 pages, $32.99. It is a common observation that we Americans do not know our history. Nevertheless, we are awash in historical argument, usually of the clumsily inaccurate and politically motivated variety. Be it the comparisons to Philadelphia 1776, Munich 1938, or…
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Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right, by David Austin Walsh, Yale University Press, 303 pages, $35. Since 2016, trained historians and writers of popular histories have sought to explain the rise of populism by looking to the distant past for its origins. Such works seek to reconceptualize our understanding of American…