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When Sam Tanenhaus agreed in 1998 to write a biography of William F. Buckley Jr., it would have been hard to name an American who deserved one more. Less than a decade after the defeat...

German readers have a powerful appetite for doorstop political autobiographies, gossip-filled 600- and 700-page apologias by major statesman and even minor party hacks...

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by jennifer burns farrar, straus and giroux, 592 pages, $35 Anyone who lived through the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 will remember the...

For Americans, the 1990s are both the most sharply defined and the most fuzzily understood of modern decades. The nineties began on 11/9/1989, with the breaching of the Berlin...

Watergate: A New Historyby garrett m. graffsimon & schuster, 832 pages, $35 The Watergate ­scandal began in 1972 with a burglary of the Democratic Party’s headquarters and ended with...

Looking back on his time as a Cuban-trained communist revolutionary, the French writer Régis Debray recalled that Chile’s Marxist president used to display on his desk a photo of...

With just over 120,000 people, Bergamo, northeast of Milan, is not a particularly populous city, and it is short of priests, like almost every other city in the Catholic...

We should all be dead,” said Jonathan Goyer one bright morning in January as he looked across a room filled with dozens of his coworkers and clients. The Anchor...

The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interestby walter a. mcdougallyale, 424 pages, $30 What are the principles for which America fights? This...