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Byline: Steven F. Hayward To begin to convey a sense of what an extraordinary and compelling figure Harry V. Jaffa was, I offer a confession: The only class notes I [...]

Brigid and Peter Flanigan were among those people who seem almost impossibly romantic and attractive, with more self-confidence and fullness than humans are supposed to have. The Flanigans bestrode the world like colossi and were the perfect image of what 'beautiful people' are supposed to be, and remained that way until Brigid's death in May 2006.

There are at least three major cycles to the historical process of judging presidents. There is the initial summation upon leaving office. Then there is a reappraisal period, when we [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward One criticism that can be made of Patrick Allitt is that he usually writes with the historian's 'objective' detachment, concealing his own opinions or conclusions about [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward Populism, that ever-lurking and always problematic phenomenon in American politics, is especially galling to liberals when it breaks from the right, as it has done during [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward The climate change crusaders, who have been at it for a quarter-century, appear to be going clinically mad. Start with the rhetorical monotony and worship of [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward Thought experiment: Imagine you are a national security reporter, covering the release of a massive, 2,000-page report on domestic intelligence gathering activities and future threat assessment [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward It may be overdone to say that the Obama administration aims to shove America in the direction of European social democracy, but there's one domain where [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward Most critiques of environmentalism have become as dreary and predictable as environmentalism itself. Environmentalists, their critics (myself included) never tire of telling us, grossly exaggerate problems, [...]

Byline: Alex Alexiev and Steven F. Hayward The Cold War is now so over that it might as well be grouped with the ancient ice ages, but there is one [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward If you had told environmentalists on Election Day 2008 that four years later there'd be no successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, that a Democratic Congress [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward This magisterial three--volume biography of Winston Church-ill, begun by William Manchester nearly 30 years ago, has at last reached completion, though the path to its finale [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward The forlorn and increasingly desperate climate campaign achieved a new level of ineptitude last week when what had looked like a minor embarrassment for one of [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward The conventional wisdom about blockbuster movie sequels is that the second acts are seldom as good as the originals. The exceptions, like The Godfather: Part II [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward The spectacular collapse of Solyndra has all of the trappings of an epic Washington scandal, with serial revelations of embarrassing and potentially improper White House machinations [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward By now just about everyone has jumped on board the natural gas bandwagon (see 'The Gas Revolution,' April 18, 2011). Its newfound abundance inside the four [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward When Andrew Liveris took over as CEO of Dow Chemical at the end of 2004, the company was in the midst of a wrenching reorganization that [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward The catastrophe at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is being regarded as the atomic power equivalent of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward The Climate Fix What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming by Roger Pielke Jr. Basic Books, 288 pp., $26 Lionel Trilling wrote of [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward With the collapse of cap and trade in the Senate and the prospects dim for a measly renewable-energy mandate for electric utilities in a lame duck [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward With the ignominious collapse of cap and trade legislation in the Senate, the climate campaign is licking its wounds and wondering where it went wrong. Greens [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward T his article needs to begin with a big mea culpa. In the April 26 edition of The Weekly Standard (which went to press on April [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward Churchill by Paul Johnson Viking, 192 pp., $24.95 Paul Johnson, who typically produces large books about large subjects (Modern Times, A History of the American People, [...]

Byline: Steven F. Hayward It is increasingly clear that the leak of the internal emails and documents of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in November [...]

The climate campaign, built step-by-step over the last 20 years, has reached its Waterloo. The Copenhagen conference that ended Friday was an exercise in political theater. It not only failed [...]

Slowly and mostly unnoticed by the major news media, the air has been going out of the global warming balloon. Global temperatures stopped rising a few years ago, much to [...]

So Van Jones now takes his place as the Lani Guinier of the Obama administration, undone by his radical views. Like Guinier, the ousted 'green jobs' czar will doubtless employ [...]

The Conservatives Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History by Patrick Allitt Yale, 336 pp., $35 Patrick Allitt has succeeded admirably in his objective of producing a compact survey of American [...]

Presidential Command Power, Leadership and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush by Peter W. Rodman Knopf, 368 pp., $27.95 Peter Rodman, who died last [...]

Lurking just below the surface of the second-guessing about Sarah Palin's fitness to be president is the serious question of whether we still believe in the American people's capacity for [...]

Churchill and the Jews A Lifelong Friendship by Martin Gilbert Henry Holt, 384 pp., $30 Churchill's Promised Land Zionism and Statecraft by Michael Makovsky Yale, 368 pp., $35 It's inevitable [...]

Liberal Fascism The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg Back during his 1976 campaign for president, Ronald Reagan made the [...]

Camelot and the Cultural Revolution How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism by James Piereson Encounter, 176 pp., $25.95 Encounter Books, the publisher of this provocative and [...]

On February 2, an AEI research project on climate change policy that we have been organizing was the target of a journalistic hit piece in Britain's largest left-wing newspaper, the [...]

The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister Three Who Changed the World by John O'Sullivan Regnery, 448 pp., $27.95 There was an arresting tableau at Ronald Reagan's memorial service [...]

Our Endangered Values America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter Simon & Schuster, 224 pp., $25 IT IS DIFFICULT, WHEN confronting the miasma of tired bromides strung together in this book, [...]

CLIMATE CHANGE IS HEATING UP again in American politics, the result of an orchestrated campaign to push the issue to the forefront. Al Gore is hitting the road with his [...]