The Ironies of History: From Pearl Harbor to Iran. The Iranian people are preparing for the next big challenge to the dying regime: tomorrow, 7 December. Pearl Harbor Day. And the regime is lashing out in all directions: …

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Faster, Please! » The Ironies of History: From Pearl Harbor to Iran

History ended in 1989, but not quite in the way people thought. Fundamentally this generation of Americans and Europeans lost the will to pay for anything while its appetite for everything remained unabated. The eventual result was …

Belmont Club » Twenty years after the End of History

People magazine rewrites Palin history: About a year after Sarah Palin famously turned down a campaign season appearance with talk show host — and major Barack Obama supporter — Oprah Winfrey, the former GOP vice presidential candidate …

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Pajamas Media » PalinTracker: Endorses Hoffman, MSM Rewrites …

Later, some feminists would argue that only women could teach women’s history. While mainly histories of the American Left have been written by sympathetic historians who are also on the Left- and who mine the past largely to rescue …

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Ron Radosh » Can Left-wing historians write the History of …

The transcripts prove, despite the earlier denials and obfuscations of the participants, that officials from the White House, the National Endowment of the Arts and a federally overseen initiative called United We Serve joined in …

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Klavan On The Culture » All Your Art Are Belong To Us

The NEA Scandal: All Your Art Are Belong To Us. What’s worse: a White House telling artists to push a political agenda or the artists being so eager to take Big Brother’s call? September 21, 2009 – by Andrew Klavan …

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Pajamas Media » The NEA Scandal: All Your Art Are Belong To Us

For Poland it is a reminder of another dark age in its history. For Germany it is a reminder of its aggressive past. For Great Britain and France it elicits an uncomfortable realization that despite the security guarantee given to …

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Pajamas Media » Still Dis-Putin' History After All These Years

And for those too young to remember history’s greatest monster (thanks, Glenn), Jimmah’s empty slander is just another sign of the unbecoming moral vanity at the heart of the modern Left, to say nothing of its overweening intolerance …

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Ed Driscoll » History's Greatest Monster

It is a truism that protests in American history have been pretty much the province of the left. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, since most protests — especially in the 20th century — were to support the liberals’ idea of “progress” and …

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Pajamas Media » Debate Over Tea Party Protest Numbers Masks the …

Someday maybe, if you grow up inside, you’ll develop a tragic sense of life, a tragic sense of history. Read Aeschylus, maybe it will help you develop one. Or at least The Last Hurrah. …

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RonRosenbaum.com » A Moment in (Teddy Kennedy) History