Richard K. Munro

@MLB hooray Great is the box score and the game of baseball

@ArthurLHerman just a pipe dream ; EU will be lucky to remain as independent allies

A European "Superstate." Isn't that what Napoleon and then Hitler tried--and failed? Last one to succeed at it was Charlemagne. I'm always packed and ready to go back in time 1400 years, I'm not sure anyone else is.

I'm excited that my How The Scots Invented the Modern World, published twenty-five years ago, is back at #1 in Scottish History at Amazon: amazon.com/How-Scots-Inve…

V pleased that my new book Founder's Fire hit #3 in US History bestsellers on Amazon this weekend: amazon.com/Founders-Fire-…

@ArthurLHerman outstanding book; Very comprehensive and informative. I enjoy referring to it

Philosopher and MD Ronald W. Dworkin says in @NCCivitas magazine that my new book The Primate Myth "has done humanity an important service." I ask in my new Substack why the proponents of the idea that humans are very much like apes won't debate me. open.substack.com/pub/jonathanle…

He won the Civil War, broke the Klan, went bankrupt at 62, got terminal throat cancer, and wrote one of the greatest books in American literature in the final year of his life. He finished it 5 days before he died. Ulysses S. Grant was born 204 years ago today. His name wasn't even Ulysses S. Grant. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822. The congressman who nominated him to West Point wrote down the wrong name. Grant kept it. The "S." stands for nothing. He hated his father's tannery and loved horses. Graduated 21st of 39 at West Point. Fought in the Mexican-American War, then came home convinced it was an unjust war designed to expand slavery. He later said he believed the Civil War was divine punishment for it. He married Julia Dent in 1848, into a slave-owning Missouri family. His abolitionist father refused to attend the wedding. In 1859, broke and desperate, Grant freed the one enslaved man he'd briefly owned instead of selling him. He could have gotten a year's wages. In the Civil War he became what no other Union general was: relentless. Vicksburg (July 4, 1863) split the Confederacy in half. Lincoln then gave him every Union army. His Appomattox surrender terms: officers kept sidearms, men kept horses for spring planting, no one prosecuted. As president (1869 to 1877) he did something no president would do again until LBJ: used federal troops to crush the Ku Klux Klan. He suspended habeas corpus in 9 South Carolina counties, prosecuted Klansmen before predominantly Black juries, and broke the first Klan. His presidency was also rocked by scandal: Black Friday 1869. Crédit Mobilier. The Whiskey Ring. Belknap. Grant himself never took a dime. He was just disastrously loyal to corrupt friends. The pattern damaged his reputation for a century. After the White House, he toured the world for 2 years. Dined with Queen Victoria. Met the emperor of Japan. Then in 1884, a Wall Street partner named Ferdinand Ward ran what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme. Grant was wiped out. 62 years old. Penniless. Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Mark Twain offered to publish his memoirs. Grant wrote in agony, sometimes 50 pages a day, racing the disease to leave Julia an inheritance. He finished the manuscript July 18, 1885. He died July 23. The book made Julia $450,000, about $14M today. It's now considered one of the finest memoirs in the English language. For decades historians ranked Grant a failure. Since 2000 he's jumped 13 spots in the C-SPAN survey, the biggest rise of any president. Happy birthday, General 🇺🇸

@jpodhoretz world spittoon

I’m embarrassed my governor is tree-stump level dumb

@jpodhoretz @rkylesmith i love movies; but haven’t gone in 9 years. There is nothing i want to see. Every once and a while we get a pay per view at home. watch news youtube live sports.

My friend @rkylesmith takes me to task today in WSJ for saying the movies are over. I'm old, he says, and don't know better because I only talk to old people. Well, I do have kids 21 and under, and they barely go. And in next tweet, unassailable facts:

@VividProwess idf are like RAF heroes of 1940 ; they are changing history

This little girl met an IDF soldier and wanted a picture with him. In Israel, IDF soldiers are seen as heroes in children’s eyes, as they should be. God bless our heroes.

Don't commit acts of violence, leftists. Besides being illegal and immoral, you're only helping @NoahCRothman sell books.

@VecchTweets @RBrookhiser funny

@RBrookhiser I have a big brass key with an eagle carrying a swastika that a G.I. Brought back from the War and occupation and gave to my uncle. Then and now it has been referred to as "the Key to Hitler's John." Too good to check.

I am speechless.

@RBrookhiser Both were religion friendly. Both were also gifted intellectuals and morally serious people. Both understood the critical importance of virtue and of the institutions of civil society that foster it.

@p_m_robinson Nick Adams stories are excellent

Read the Nick Adams stories. You just have to.

@VividProwess ne obliviscaris do not forget

In memory of Adar Ben Simon, who fell in battle on October 7th while bravely fighting Hamas terrorists head-on and shielding 120 recruits. She fought for 40 minutes until her life was taken. Adar was only 20. Her bravery will always be remembered. May her memory be a blessing.

@paul_jkrause The Snows of Kilimanjaro is one of the best also Big Two Hearted River

Best short story by Ernest Hemingway? There's a good selection to choose from...

🚨 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Dodgers legend Rick Monday became an American hero. Two protesters ran onto the field at Dodger Stadium trying to burn the American flag… and Rick Monday sprinted in like a damn boss and SNATCHED it right out of their hands. No hesitation. No apologies. Pure patriotism @TheVinScully with the call!