Richard Brookhiser
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Why Dems are backing off the push to impeach Kavanaugh
Rep. Jerry Nadler, slated to be Judiciary Committee chairman in the new Democratic-controlled House, has now backed off threats to impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. That’s a wise decision,...
From menace to boisterous life: The transformation of Union Square
I moved to Union Square in 1977, so I have been living near the square long enough to mark two great eras in the life of the city. The eras...
July 11, 1804: How Alexander Hamilton's friends grieved
On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton — New York’s archetypal founding father and the founder of The Post — was shot in a duel by Vice President Aaron Burr. Editors...
Victory incomplete: Lasting struggle after Civil War
One hundred fifty years ago today, Gen. Robert E. Lee met Lt. Gen. Ulysses Grant in the parlor of a grocer’s house at Appomattox, Va., to surrender his army. There...
The end of Lincoln's spiritual struggle
Our greatest president was also our most spiritually tortured. The carnage of the Civil War, by far the deadliest in American history before or since, harrowed Abraham Lincoln’s soul. It...
Why Washington matters
As we celebrate Washington’s birthday, the troops of Bashar al-Assad are pounding rebels throughout Syria, while in Libya the rebels who overthrew Moammar Khadafy are fighting among themselves. The era...
Chaos theory
James Madison, fourth president, is having a revival. The bicentennial of the War of 1812, which he asked Congress to declare, will put him front and center, along with Old...
A Supreme Court without a wasp
If Elena Kagan, President Obama's Su preme Court nominee, succeeds in re placing Justice John Paul Stevens, for the first time in history the Supreme Court will have no Protestants...
LINCOLN AT 200
NO president has such a hold on our minds as Abraham Lincoln. He lived at the dawn of photography, and his busted-sod face makes a haunting picture. He was the...
TIME WILL TELL IF HE LIVES UP TO HYPE
MY FAVORITE piece of Barack Obama inauguration memorabilia was something I saw in ABC Carpet as early as Christmas: a white living-room chair, modern and austere, with Obama heads printed...
GEORGE'S ADVICE FOR BARACK & JOHN
John McCain and Barack Obama each want to be the 44th president. What could George Washington, the first president, tell them? Washington would be worth listening to, not only as...
THE LINCOLN-LEGACY SCUFFLE
FIRST Lady Laura Bush will kick off the year-long runup to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial today at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Hodgenville, Ky. Not that Lincoln...