On the Frontline With Ivory Coast's Rebels

Ivory Coast's civil war hit the headlines this week. The conflict actually began over a decade ago as a military pay mutiny. I know because I was there. The West African state of Cote d’Ivoire was in the news cycle this past week, where a six month power struggle culminated with French and UN …

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Written by Sean Linnane on Sunday April 17, 2011

The War America Can't Forget

America's Civil War is the most analyzed in history. 150 years after it began, it still exerts a mystical hold on those who study it. It was 150 years ago in April, that the American Civil War began, and it was in April, four years later, that the war ended, with Confederate General Robert E. …

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Written by Peter Worthington on Friday April 15, 2011

Why Can't the South Let the Confederacy Go?

Non-Southerners may wonder: How can anyone interpret the founding of the Confederacy as anything other than treason in service of slaveholding? Non-Southerners may wonder: How can anyone interpret the founding of the Southern Confederacy as anything other than treason in service of slaveholding? …

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Written by David Frum on Sunday February 20, 2011

Mugwump Nation

My latest bookshelf rides a favorite hobbyhorse: a defense of the Mugwumps of the 1880s. My latest bookshelf rides a favorite hobbyhorse: a defense of the Mugwumps of the 1880s.

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday August 25, 2009

The Mugwumps: Public Moralists of the Gilded Age

To the extent that anybody remembers them at all, the Mugwumps of the 1870s and 1880s get predominantly negative press. Yet while as a movement for political power the Mugwumps failed, their ideas for reform overwhelmingly prevailed. To the extent that anybody remembers them at all, the …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday August 25, 2009