5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1260+ words) Michael Lucchese is the founder of Pipe Creek Consulting, a communications firm based in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was a communications aide to U.S. Senator Ben Sasse. He graduated from Hillsdale College in 2018, and in 2017 was a Political Studies Fellow at the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (908+ words) Engelsberg Ideas The women who waged secret war on the Nazis The valiant contribution made by female secret agents to the resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe has been overlooked for too long. Women of SOE: A History of Their Secret Missions…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (215+ words) De Gaulle’s rise, fall and rise again Engelsberg Ideas De Gaulle’s rise, fall and rise again 'De Gaulle: Résistance', the first instalment of Antonin Baudry's biopic of the Free French leader, is thrilling, historically convincing and, at times, rather moving....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (583+ words) In the postwar period, the US-led world order succeeded in taming efforts to redraw international boundaries by force, but eliminating such impulses entirely is not a realistic basis for an effective grand strategy. The desire to revise territorial boundaries through…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (218+ words) As death approached, the titan of the Scottish Enlightenment found solace in the company of close friends rather than in the hope of religious redemption. My Own Life concludes with Hume’s discovery of his final illness, which he appears to…...