Richard Allen Hyde

How can China and America avoid the war that befell Athens and Sparta?

Robert Frost, while campaigning for JFK, referred to him as a “Puritan named Kennedy” from New England.

Patrick Deneen’s new book Regime Change reviewed

What has freedom meant across the ages?

President Roosevelt first enunciated the Four Freedoms in an evening session with his speechwriters. He made them the peroration of his message to Congress and wove them into the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations Charter. They have constituted the basis of American foreign policy ever since. Now is the time to reaffirm them.

How should controversial leaders, after the passing of time, be remembered? With ceremonial execration, a prominent statue, or, perhaps, eventually, both? And what about the victims of history, those who were often forgotten and not publicly memorialized in bronze or stone?

America remains the world leader. This fact is naïve to reject and realistic to accept. It is the American Century still.

The first statue ever erected in Washington that is still in place is the suddenly much-contested one of President Andrew Jackson.