Ken Masugi is a political scholar and writer associated with the Claremont Institute, where he has focused on American political thought, constitutionalism, and statesmanship. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard on topics ranging from political philosophy and patriotism to historical debates surrounding figures like FDR. He has also written for other conservative publications and co-edited several books on American political philosophy.
Replete with stunning horror stories, as one would expect, this remarkable collection of antislavery writing astonishes nonetheless. For example: “Our first black President was a man of such distinguished talents, that none chose to risk their own reputation for discernment by not acknowledging…
By Order of the President FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans by Greg Robinson Harvard University Press, 336 pp., $27.95 Free to Die for Their Country The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II by Eric L. Muller University of Chicago Press, 256 pp., $27.50 AMONG…
In the 1984 movie Red Dawn, a group of high school students defend American soil against a Communist invasion. Courageous and innovative, the kids wage a desperate fight against Cuban and Russian professionals -- but they are inspired by no knowledge of what they are fighting for, and therefore by…