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

The last days of the Cold War’s greatest journal

Have we lost the meaning of iniquity?

The Anglican Whig who fought for England’s Catholics

The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, Science and God, Michael Bentley, Cambridge University Press, 398 pages // Herbert Butterfield: History, Providence, and Skeptical Politics,…

Richard Strauss: A Musical Life, Raymond Holden, Yale University Press, 344 pages // The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss, Charles Youmans, ed., Cambridge University Press, 338 pages

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

Writing the life of the great Belgian composer