“Very flat country, Poland.” So said long-time NR contributor and new Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski, as we whizzed at 90 miles an hour on the two-lane highway west from Warsaw.
It all started in China. It was here in the 1930s and 1940s that the United States was first presented with a dilemma that has recurred again and again over the decades since.
Here are two important books that stake out important positions in the looming debate over the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement.
The most arresting idea in Adam Winkler’s impressively learned study of US gun law, Gunfight, is the suggestion that contemporary American gun culture was more or less invented by the Black Panthers.