What’s your favorite book to read with your children during the holidays? Here are some true-and-tested picks. ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ by Laurel Long (Dial Books) The classic English Christmas carol that counts the gifts “my true love gave to me” over the course of 12 special days comes to life through the stunning…

The signature catchphrase of comedian Rodney Dangerfield was “I don’t get no respect.” Military historians in our universities might justifiably lay claim to that same line. The academic world has long regarded military historians as outliers. In 2008, for example, U.S. News and World Report writer Justin Ewers wrote a column titled “Why Don’t More…

In many of their writings, the Founding Fathers often indicated what they were working to secure for the American people: safety and happiness. These two words were a reflection of what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote that “governments are instituted among men to secure these rights.” The Founding Fathers’ goal was to institute a…

I wanted to sit in a plush, velvet movie-theater seat, gripping the armrest tightly in anticipation. I’d waited expectantly for the Christmas-themed “The Green Knight,” based off one of my ultimate favorite books, to be released. But after watching the trailer, reading a detailed synopsis, a review, and an analysis, and after seeing the terrible…

In “Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy,” Newsweek journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon provides a timely overview of the problems plaguing American journalism. The subject of media bias and misconduct is well-trodden ground in conservative circles, but Ungar-Sargon comes at this from a left-of-center perspective. While she takes issue with many media trends, her key criticism…

It’s no surprise that the public education system continues to lower its standards of learning and has, for all practical purposes, exchanged excellence for mediocrity. It is in the math and science departments where math is somehow racist and biology is a question for children to figure out on their own; meanwhile, English teachers are…

The small North Carolina town in which I lived from ages 5 to 12 had no public library. A book mobile did visit our street, at least during the summers, and the arrival of that van brought moms and kids streaming from their houses and yards, excited to board this library on wheels and take…

One of the treatises written by Frederick II of Hohenstaufen (1194–1250), King of Sicily and Jerusalem and Holy Roman Emperor, was “De Arte Venandi cum Avibus,” or “On the Art of Hunting With Birds.” It is also known by the title of “The Art of Falconry.” Basking in a court noted for its highly cosmopolitan…

It’s been 150 years since the publication of a classic story, one that lurks imperishably beneath the depths of the literary ocean. It may not be a volume that most have read—more’s the pity—yet most know of its existence, as they might know of some deep-sea creature. At the very least, all know the name…

One of life’s universal truths is that everyone has lived through their own personal holiday disaster. Whether due to unexpected circumstances, already existing family tensions, or a simple oversight blown out of all proportion, we can all recall at least one festive situation that is best forgotten. Alex Bernstein uses this premise as a starting…