Review of The Political Thought of the Civil War, edited by Alan Levine, Thomas W. Merrill, and James R. Stoner, Jr. (University of Kansas Press, 2018).   Americans tend to forget […]

Image by Btb.jo via Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WW1_Trench_Warfare.jpg) The evolution of photography seems to correspond with our modern capacity for sympathy. Someone in a […]

Image by White House Photo Office via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain ; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nixon_Cambodia.jpg) Review of Elie Baranets, Comment perdre une guerre : Une théorie du contournement démocratique (CNRS Editions, 2017)   In November 1968, […]

This past February, the Times Literary Supplement published a translation of Edith Wharton’s lecture, “France and Its Allies at War: The Witnesses Speak.” It’s a curious little speech, delivered in […]