Michael F. Bishop

As a public servant and man of letters, London’s mayor is splendidly equipped to take the measure of the 20th Century’s most famous and certainly most eloquent prime minister.

One hundred years ago today, the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered World War I. We are still getting over it.

The left today shouldn’t look to John F. Kennedy as a liberal pioneer. James L. Swanson and Michael F. Bishop on what the assassinated president really stood for.

Was World War I a necessary fight against German militarism, or was it completely avoidable? Michael Bishop on a new history.