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It is my privilege to have been a friend of Henry Kissinger's for more than forty years. We have had some ups and downs, but my respect for him as [...]

The current moment may seem to be a crossroads. Western civilization may either continue to lose its apparent competitive superiority over its chief rivals, or it may reaffirm its enduring [...]

Editors' note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion's third annual Circle Lecture. The answer to the question that Roger Kimball gave me for [...]

Michael Dobbs King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy. Knopf, 416 pages, $32.50 Michael Dobbs's King Richard is a superficial book that contributes nothing new to the immense Watergate literature, [...]

Graham T. Allison The rise of China presents the most complex international challenge any American president has ever faced. China is at one and the same time the fiercest rival [...]

Anne Applebaum's new work, Twilight of Democracy, is a disconnected and overwrought pamphlet (50,000 words) with an alarmist title unsustained by the contents. (1) It must be respected as the [...]

It is a great honor to receive the Edmund Burke Award from the publishers of this magazine. Because the general overreaction to the coronavirus made the intended holding of the [...]

Like all of Andrew Roberts's histories, Churchill is massively researched and exquisitely written. (1) The author's sharp sense of humor is often in evidence and warmly complements Churchill's own. As [...]

Antony Beevor The Battle of Arnhem. Viking, 480 pages, $35 The Battle of Arnhem is a brilliant book by Antony Beevor, an author who, it can be argued, has taken [...]

In Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 movie North by Northwest, the protagonist Roger Thornhill, a genial New York advertising man played by Cary Grant, is suddenly swept up into clandestine Cold War [...]

As anyone familiar with Victor Davis Hanson's writing would expect, his new, exhaustively researched summary of World War II comes from a novel angle and is a very stimulating and [...]

Populism is generally taken to mean a political movement that challenges the incumbent political elite and may overwhelm it. If in doing so, or at a subsequent stage, the movement [...]

William Domnarski's new biography of Richard Posner, at 256 pages, could scarcely fail to be more than a rather cursory' summary of the sixty-year oeuvre of one of America's most [...]

The Western world is inexplicably enduring a prolonged crisis of mediocre leadership, which descended on it like a pulmonary illness shortly after the end of the Cold War: the greatest [...]

Historical battles Jay Winik 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History. Simon & Schuster, 656 pages, $35 Jay Winik's new book 1944 is the latest attack of the steadily [...]

There is no doubt that Niall Ferguson's Kissinger is a brilliant book by an outstanding historian about a great and durably interesting statesman, who is also a distinguished historian and [...]

Michael Neiberg's Potsdam is an interesting but somewhat over-ambitious book. (1) Its principal arguments seem to be that the Potsdam Conference of 1945 occupied a place in history that was [...]

Stalin is a formidably documented, densely detailed book of 739 pages that gets the reader from Stalin's birth in 1878 up to 1928, just six years into his thirty-one-year tenure [...]

Roosevelt and Stalin is an interesting but bad book. (1) Susan Butler argues that the Cold War and the terror of its nuclear arms race might well have been avoided [...]

Gerald Frost, editor Understanding the Crash: The Financial Crisis of 2008. Danube Institute, Budapest, 94 pages, available gratis from the publisher This well-assembled group of brief essays on the 2008 [...]

The distinguished historian Andrew Roberts has written his greatest book to date and has made an important contribution to the vast Napoleonic literature. His Napoleon: A Life (whose British title [...]

Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by Wolfram Siemann, translated from the German by Daniel Steuer The Belknap Press/ Harvard University Press, 31.99[pounds sterling], pp. 900 This is a giant Teutonic forest [...]

World Order is a brilliantly conceived and executed book even by Henry Kissinger's very high standards. (1) His memoirs of government service with President Nixon and President Ford rival the [...]

The debunking of formerly oracular Global Warmer and proto-Go-rite Michael Mann should have been a routine matter, conspicuous only for the skill and originality of the polemicist involved--I mean Mark [...]

J. William Galbraith John Buchan: Model Governor General. Dundurn, 544 pages, $40 Admirers of John Buchan and his voluminous work--which includes The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, and other writings--will not find [...]

This is a bad book. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, by Gary J. Bass, covers an interesting and terrible period in South Asia, and events that [...]

The article is a personal tribute to Paul Johnson, a Journalist. It mentions that arriving in London, UK, as a newspaper owner in the mid-1980s, the author cherishes Paul's advice and kindness. It mentions that with a constant expression of his opinions, Paul Johnson was a man of versatility and exceptional skills as a legal representative. It highlights some of the people whom Paul Johnson regarded highly, including Margaret Thatcher, Rupert Murdoch, and Tony Blair.

Michael Fullilove, Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World (New York: Penguin, 2013), 480 pp., $29.95. This [...]

David Nasaw, The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy (New York: Penguin, 2012), 896 pp., $40.00. The Patriarch is a thorough and balanced biography that [...]

It is impossible to read Mark Steyn for more than a couple of paragraphs without encountering a startling aperçu, formulated in arresting terms and usually with a felicitous wit surpassing [...]