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
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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
Gladstone · March 2025
Review: On Lothair and Benjamin Disraeli’s Religious Psychology
The religious quandary at the heart of Disraeli’s late novel and what the Derby diaries reveal about his real beliefs.
March 22, 2025
Wilson · March 2025
The impact of Britain’s “New Liberalism” on Woodrow Wilson
Wilson seems to have thought surprisingly little about British New Liberalism before the war.
March 21, 2025
Disraeli · March 2025
Review: Tancred, a novel by Benjamin Disraeli
For 150 years, reception was negative about this novel. Then, starting 20 years ago, something changed.
March 18, 2025
Wilson · March 2025
The two arguments about Woodrow Wilson’s racism
Was Woodrow Wilson a racist because of southern partisanship, or because of Hegelian sympathies?
March 17, 2025