On the eve of America’s bicentennial, the American Enterprise Institute published Irving Kristol’s lecture, “The American Revolution as a Successful Revolution.” Kristol noted that at the time “the idea and very word, ‘revolution,’ are in good repute today; the American Revolution is not.” Yet the American Revolution was “the only truly successful revolution” because it

All roads lead to the European Union. This, in a nutshell, is the argument of Roderick Beaton’s book covering the history of the continent from ancient Greece to today’s war in Ukraine. A professor emeritus of history at King’s College London, Beaton wants his readers to consider the idea of Europe as it developed from

REVIEW: ‘Guilt: A Mystery’ by Keigo Higashino If you are a bookish person, odds are that your running gift-list for family members, friends, colleagues, and so on includes other heavy readers. Among them may well be some who enjoy mysteries, “crime fiction,” and the like. If that is indeed the case, I have a suggestion