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  George H.W. Bush: An honest obituary

  Patrick Howard Flynn | December 13, 2018

  Praise, not precision, carries the day when a significant figure dies. But the eulogies extolling George H.W. Bush have so surpassed his performance that we run the risk of distorting historical reality.

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  The Tory Civil War Begins

  Ralph Berry | December 12, 2018

  “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” Within living memory there was once a Conservative Party. It was led by men who had received their M.C. (Eden, Macmillan) and a woman-warrior Brunhild out of Wagner, Margaret Thatcher.

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  Faith of Our Fathers, Living Still

  Tom Piatak | December 11, 2018

  On most Sundays and holy days, I happily attend what Pope Benedict XVI termed the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite and what is often called the Novus Ordo Mass. Last Saturday, though, I attended what Benedict XVI termed the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite and what is often called the Latin Mass.

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  Letter from Holland: The Kaiser in Exile

  Srdja Trifkovic | December 11, 2018

  On a recent sunny afternoon—a wonderful rarity in Holland’s late fall—I visited Huis Doorn, the country manor 15 miles east of Utrecht where Kaiser Wilhelm II Hohenzollern spent just over two decades in exile before dying there in early June 1941.

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