Gladstone · October 2026
‘Patria Oppressa!’
Gladstone, the theater, Homer, and a ‘complete revolution’ of opinion.
October 31, 2026
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Disraeli · August 2026
British television show “Number 10” got personal with Disraeli and Gladstone
In a way that American TV rarely does, this 1983 series plumbed the psychological depths of statesmen as character studies
August 23, 2026
Gladstone · April 2026
I Did Not Mean It: Gladstone, Homer and a Second Chance at Providence
A 1,600-page study of Homer becomes a window into the statesman's private wrestling with fate, free will and progress.
April 14, 2026
Gladstone · March 2026
Did Gladstone arrive in Corfu a conservative and leave a liberal?
Disraeli’s attempt to sideline Gladstone politically paradoxically catalyzed his shift to Liberalism.
March 15, 2026
Wilson · January 2026
An aside: Byron and Shelley’s influence on Wilson and Gladstone
Woodrow Wilson worried genius marries badly, because of Shelley’s example. He was thinking of himself. His wife replied sarcastically: “the poor helpless men of genius are not utterly unprotected.”
January 31, 2026
Gladstone · October 2025
Review: Disraeli’s Alroy prefigures modern Zionism. Did he see himself in the Messianic fantasy?
Disraeli dreamed in 1833 of reviving Israel, before “Zionism” was a word: “A single day, a single man, and we might be a nation.” Did he hope to be that single man?
October 16, 2025