Disraeli · May 2025
Review: The Voyage of Captain Popanilla, a novella by Benjamin Disraeli
This entertaining political tract in fictional form was perhaps inspired by the Panic of 1825 and the fake nation of Poyais.
May 12, 2025
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Wilson · May 2025
He learned it from his Dad: Woodrow Wilson’s opposition to inalienable rights
A symptom of his early conservatism, not his eventual progressivism, Wilson’s opposition to natural rights came from his southern background as much as his xenophilic nature.
May 2, 2025
Gladstone · April 2025
Review: Vivian Grey, a novel by Benjamin Disraeli
Two hundred years later, Disraeli’s first novel remains audacious, ridiculous, revealing.
April 25, 2025
Wilson · April 2025
Woodrow Wilson & The Jackass
The tale of Woodrow Wilson’s most hated Princeton professor is one of the most amusing and least told stories in Wilson lore
April 1, 2025
Disraeli · March 2025
Review: Endymion, a novel by Benjamin Disraeli
Why was the hero of the conservative prime minister’s last complete novel on the opposite side of the political spectrum?
March 25, 2025
Wilson · March 2025
Fired for “Calhoun views”: 19th Century cancel culture and Woodrow Wilson’s relationship to a quintessential southerner
A scholar has asserted that Wilson was no southern partisan in part because he saw John Calhoun as provincial. But Wilson had a long and not unadmiring relationship to the influential Southern statesman.
March 24, 2025