Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Short Novel. Major Topic. Spread the Word.
A novel of special interest to those who are intrigued by religion, law, Roman history, decision-making, crisis-management, ethics, and courage.
Or Jesus, Pontius Pilate, Tiberius, and the Sanhedrin.
It's about the most famous trial in world history but be forewarned:
It's not about Pilates.
Substack Essays: Being Revised and Expanded
- Totalitarian Studies Are Sorely Needed
- The Day the Music Sorta Died
- Let's End the American Cultural Revolution with Some Candor
- History's Personally Revealing Anecdotes
- Evil's Apologists Are Always Out There
- Memories of the Job Search Jungle
- To Get the Saw Dust on the Floor, We Need to Read the Writing on the Wall
Monday, June 15, 2026
"After a Decade in the Query Trenches"
Liza Libes on "Why Contemporary Publishing is Broken."
There is a reason why recent years have seen a jump in self-published books.
"A Revolution for All Mankind"
No one who takes up a copy of The Federalist Papers ever forgets the way Alexander Hamilton opened the first of that remarkable series of commentaries on the new American Constitution, published five weeks after it was signed in 1787 in Philadelphia. “It has been frequently remarked,” Hamilton began, “that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.” It was a decision to which he did not hesitate to attach world significance, since “a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.”
Read the rest of historian Allen Guelzo's essay in Commentary magazine.
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