Robert Wargas is a writer and journalist who contributed cultural and political commentary to The Weekly Standard between 2014 and 2016. His articles for the magazine included book reviews and essays spanning topics from history and foreign policy to civil liberties.
In 2013, when the world found out that Angela Merkel had been the target of American wiretapping, Western journalists seemed ready for the fainting couches. The United States, it turned out, had used its embassy in Berlin to house its eavesdropping operation. But how naïve could these journalists…
I have always admired Franklin Delano Roosevelt as an inspiring patriot. But I've also never moved past my first impression of him as an authoritarian. I still hold this general opinion after reading this splendid book; the difference is that Man of Destiny has amplified the intensity of it. I now…
Any book about libertarianism is bound to be a book about the United States. The American-born David Boaz admits that his origins will confine The Libertarian Mind, an updated version of his 1997 primer on the philosophy of individual freedom, to this country’s political system. But even if Boaz…
"Imperialist” is a dirty word, one of many clubs with which to beat one’s opponents beyond the margins of society. And it is too easy to forget, in our solipsistic age, that the language of empire once aroused pride and dignity rather than guilt and shame. Lawrence James, a historian of unusual…