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• A rising and not a setting sun 

  Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, by Gordon S. Wood (Oxford, 778 pp., $35) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE history of...

  National Review, 11/23/09 by Richard Brookhiser · More from publication

• The Great Alexander 

  WE are not Hollywood, yet we are dotted with camera crews: TV news vans with pop-up antennas covering celebrity appearances or disasters; movies...

  National Review, 11/02/09 by Richard Brookhiser · More from publication

• Dutch city 

  I LIVE in a historical anomaly--an American city not founded by Anglos. As you move south and west, you find others--New Orleans, former Spanish...

  National Review, 10/05/09 by Richard Brookhiser · More from publication

• Years of upheaval 

  GETTING a city apartment painted is a trial for several reasons. The rent laws encourage city-dwellers to stay put; over the years our possessions...

  National Review, 08/24/09 by Richard Brookhiser · More from publication

• Skull session 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE English cartoonist James Gillray drew a famous panel titled "The Gout." The wordless image...

  National Review, 07/20/09 by Richard Brookhiser · More from publication

• Attention getting 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN I moved to New York, Ben Sonnenberg was a merry old troll who lived, not in a den under a...

  National Review, 06/22/09 by Richard Brookhiser · More from publication

• Performance art and panache: remembering editorial conferences with William F. Buckley Jr 

  IN 1976, when I was 21 years old, I went to work for NATIONAL REVIEW as a summer intern. In-house, the internships were called Miss Buckley's...

  National Review, 06/08/09 by Richard Brookhiser · More from publication

• Bright wings 

  THERE is a window--it will shut even as these words appear--between the melting of the snow and the unfurling of leaves. The trees stand crowded...

  National Review, 05/25/09 by Richard Brookhiser · More from publication

• Open city 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE city is full of windows. More buildings, more stories, more rooms equal more panes of glass....

  National Review, 04/20/09 by Richard Brookhiser · More from publication

• Duty dance 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ALTHOUGH it is not full day, the day has begun. The sun is up, life stirs. The Watchers line the...

  National Review, 03/23/09 by Richard Brookhiser · More from publication