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We may think that current political discourse is crude and vicious. But, believe me, beneath a veneer of gentility, politics in the British Empire was worse. Hobbes called it “nasty and brutish,” and ...

IntroductionLast time, we read the continental counter-revolutionary thinkers de Maistre and Bonald. Divine providence and punishment, blood and sacrifice, the executioner, and the metaphysics of ...

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Benjamin Disraeli lost the first four times he ran for a seat in the British House of Commons. Finally he won as a Conservative Party member at age 34 in 1837. Through it all, Disraeli was not easily ...

Will the British prime minister who has been described as “an adventurer addicted to romance and careless about facts” please stand up? The same prime minister who had first made his reputation as a ...

Over one hundred days after leaving office, former Prime Minister Liz Truss unveiled the autopsy of her forty-nine days in power. Blaming “a very powerful economic establishment” for the failure of ...

DISRAELI by Robert Blake. 819 pages. St. Martin’s. $12.50. In Britain’s political pantheon stands one statue raffishly askew, absurd finger-curls atop a drooping, oversized head, a sardonic smile on ...

How ironic that the crisis confronting the British monarchy, sparked by the former Prince Andrew’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, has occurred on the 145th anniversary of the death of the man in part ...

FEW public men in any country have been made the subject of so much hostile criticism as Benjamin Disraeli. The most powerful section of the press in England has always been opposed to him. The rising ...