Daniel Lee contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 2012 and 2015. His pieces for the magazine covered a range of topics, reflecting a versatile approach to commentary and reporting.
One hundred years ago this spring, rowdy automobile caravans from all over the South and Midwest rolled into Chattanooga for the inaugural meeting of the Dixie Highway Association (DHA). It would have been no Sunday drive, according to Tammy Ingram: American roads at the time comprised a…
In All the King’s Men (1946), Robert Penn Warren’s novel inspired by Huey Long, Warren uses a narrator, Jack Burden, to show the simultaneously corrosive and transformative effect that proximity to power can have, even on people of goodwill. We learn in James Romm’s Dying Every Day that it has ever…
Fantasies of the “noble savage” are nothing new, of course. There were Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s state-of-nature imaginings in the 18th century, and something similar appears even in the ancient epic Gilgamesh. In 1580, Montaigne compared holy-warring Europeans (unfavorably) with Brazilian cannibals,…
There’s been an Orange Revolution in Ukraine, a Rose Revolution in Georgia, and a Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia that helped launch last year’s Arab Spring. Is democracy sweeping the globe at last? Well—not yet, according to our author, a former editor at Foreign Policy who has been doing some…