Make the Confederacy’s Defeat a National Holiday
150 years ago this week, Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union. Let's celebrate it—every year.
Civil War
How to Save Iraq
This is the best, or the least bad, solution to the current crisis
Saddam Hussein's Faithful Friend, the King of Clubs, Might Be the Key to Saving Iraq
Assuming, that is, the mysterious Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri is even still alive
The Emancipationist Century
David Brion Davis's trilogy was fifty years in the making, and the final volume was worth the wait
The True Story of America's First Black Female Slave Novelist
The woman behind 'The Bondwoman's Narrative'
The Poetry of Frank O’Hara
Two poems originally published in the New Republic
Gettysburg Regress
How the government is ruining America's most famous battlefield.
Every Man His Own Revolution
1776 and American Egotism
