Archive of Reviews and Opinions
2023
‘Easy Money’ Review: The Currency and the Commonwealth, The Wall Street Journal, March 31, 2023.
2022
‘The Price of Time’ Review: Getting Interest Rates Wrong, The Wall Street Journal, August 12th, 2022.
2021
‘The Broken Constitution’ Review: A House, and Its Plans, Divided, The Wall Street Journal, November 24th, 2021.
“We Can Escape the Ideological Madness By Impeaching Trump,” The Dallas Morning News, January 24, 2021.
“The Crooked Path to Abolition,” The Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2021.
Book review. How the Constitution helped destroy slavery in the United States.
“The Stolen Election of 1876” The American Conservative, January/February 2021.
Essay: On the Hayes/Tilden Election and an era in which American Democracy was even more dysfunctional.
“Anti-American Exceptionalism,” First Things (January, 2021).
Book review: Mathew Lockwood, To Begin the World Over Again (Yale, 2019).
2020
“Gift Books: Business” The Wall Street Journal, November 19, 2020.
Review Essay. What is money?
“The Zealot and the Emancipator,” The Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2020.
Book Review: H.W. Brands, The Zealot and the Emancipator (Doubleday, 2020)
“Every Drop of Blood,” The Wall Street Journal, April, 11, 2020.
Book Review: Edward Achorn, Every Drop of Blood (Atlantic Monthly, 2020).
“Plagues and Peoples,” Quillette March 23, 2020.Review Essay on the history of plagues, ancient and modern.
2019
“‘Revolutionary Brothers’: Patriots and Expatriates” The Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2019.
Book Review: Revolutionary Brothers (St. Martin’s Press, 2019).
“Noble Opposition” The Claremont Review of Books (Winter, 2019).
Book Review, Michael J. Faber, An Anti-Federalist Constitution (Kansas, 2019).
“Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for Independence,” The Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2019.
Book Review: Harlow Giles Unger, Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for Independence (Da Capo, 2019).
“No – Jonathan Haidt Is Not Like a Slavery Apologist,” Quillette, September 4, 2019
Essay on free speech doctrines and proslavery rhetoric in the antebellum South.
“The Civil War as Revolution,” Tocqueville Review, July 11, 2019.
Book Review: Alan Levine, Thomas W. Merrill, and James R. Stoner, Jr. The Political Thought of the Civil War (Kansas, 2018)
“Storm Clouds,” The Claremont Review of Books July 3, 2019.
Essay on the political crisis of the 1850s and the parallels to today.
“William Walker’s Wars” The Wall Street Journal, June 10, 2019.
Book Review: Scott Martelle, William Walker’s Wars (Chicago Review, 2018).
2018
“Edwin Stanton Was a Member of the Resistance – In 1860.” The Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2018.
Op-ed on Edwin Stanton as self-declared resistance leader within James Buchanan’s cabinet.