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Curing Cultural Amnesia
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Curing Cultural Amnesia

Culture wars are curious things. When the left thinks it may lose, we are told ad nauseam that using politics to advance a cultural agenda is “divisive”—a distraction from matters of import, a ruse to snare working-class votes for plutocratic policies—and focuses on matters that respectable people never mention, much less use as a way...

The Wehrmacht in Their Own Words
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The Wehrmacht in Their Own Words

By allowing the German soldiers to speak, historian David Harrisville helps us to see World War II through their eyes, almost sympathetically. Many were devoted Christians who saw the war as a struggle against "godless" and "inhumane" Soviets.

Labor Betrayed by the Progressive Left
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Labor Betrayed by the Progressive Left

The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America by Gabriel Winant Harvard University Press 368 pp., $35.00 Once upon a time, there were academic historians on whom the public could rely for help in accurately understanding the world in which we live. Scholars such as Samuel Eliot...