Author Archives: R.J. Stove

Conservatism’s Mozart

Posted on February 8, 2013

Joe Sobran was the literary heir of H.L. Mencken and Ambrose Bierce.

Close Encounter

Posted on December 14, 2012

The last days of the Cold War’s greatest journal

Killer Culture

Posted on September 15, 2012

Have we lost the meaning of iniquity?

Saint Sydney

Posted on July 10, 2012

The Anglican Whig who fought for England’s Catholics

A Grief Unobserved

Posted on November 18, 2011

Did Evelyn Waugh’s cruelty cost him his wife—and life?

Nancy Mitford’s Neocon

Posted on August 8, 2011

The English author foresaw American globalism in the ’50s.

New Zealand Shaken

Posted on September 6, 2010

You have probably seen by now numerous televisual news bulletins about the …

Scholar Among Rakes

Posted on December 1, 2009

Macaulay communes across the generations.

Sweetness & Spite

Posted on August 1, 2009

The forgotten pleasures of light verse

Sweetness & Spite

Posted on August 1, 2009

The forgotten pleasures of light verse

I Am (East Timorese) Woman, Hear Me Roar

Posted on March 25, 2009

Rushing in where even a quarter-century’s worth of genocidal Indonesians feared to …

Roberts Misremembers Warren Harding

Posted on September 25, 2008

Obviously Joe Biden isn’t the only public figure whose junior-high memories of Chief Executives …

Court Historian

Posted on September 22, 2008

Andrew Roberts, the Anglosphere’s greatest modern mythologist, may be perfectly suited to sanitize the Bush presidency.

Hadar for Prez?

Posted on September 12, 2008

We should certainly all get behind Leon Hadar’s White House campaign, not …

You Say Lansoprazole, I Say Lanzarote…

Posted on April 17, 2008

Alas, the editorial scenario which Scott McConnell describes sounds all too plausible. …

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