Book review: America’s Retreat From Victory by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy by F.C. Etier “Glenn Beck attacks Sandra Bullock over donations to Haiti and New Orleans…” Can you imagine the fallout from a headline like that? A nationally popular activist/commentator attacking an acknowledged hero that recently won major awards would raise eyebrows in each of their camps — and stir Continue Reading →
by Gideon Dene THE WORKS of American Mercury contributor and editor Henry Hazlitt (he was H.L. Mencken’s chosen successor) are brilliant gems of economic insight which, if they were only more well known, could change the downward spiral of the West’s economic fortunes. Did you know, for example, that inflation is not a rise in prices? Did you know that Continue Reading →
by A. Helian GIVEN THE number of links Instapundit posts every day, it should come as no surprise if he hits an occasional sour note. A recent specimen thereof turned up an article that convinced me that Prof. Reynolds made a good choice when he favored law over American literature in his choice of academic careers. The article in question Continue Reading →
North Carolina Writers’ Network 2010 Hall of Fame Inductees THE North Carolina Writers’ Network has just announced the 2010 inductees into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame – a list including two very distinguished historical figures and three living authors: – Walter Hines Page (1855-1918), who worked as a newspaperman, founding Raleigh’s State Chronicle, and as a magazine editor Continue Reading →