John F. Kennedy: an anglophile for all seasons
The storied president was more English than Irish, despite being seen as the ultimate symbol of Irish-American success and social acceptance
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Author: Pat Murphy
Was the Ukrainian Red Famine genocide or incompetence?
Historians are divided on Josef Stalin’s intent in the Ukraine that resulted in millions of deaths. Anne Applebaum’s new book has revived the dispute
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Diana’s bad bargain and her enduring mythology
While popular opinion may cast her as a victim, it’s hard to imagine that she’d have given Charles a second thought if he wasn’t the Prince of Wales
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‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’
While it might be silly to argue the Berlin Wall came down because of Ronald Reagan, he demonstrated unusual prescience about the Soviet Union’s fragility
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Two women defined by and celebrated for a single book each
Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee tackled the peculiarities and flaws of the American South of different eras but still plumbed some universal truths
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