Paul Greenberg

The plotters have flown the coup. It will take the historians years to sort out the lessons from the Three Days That Shook the World, but surely some conclusions can...

The delegates to the constitutional convention-the constitutional convention, the one in 1787-certainly did a good day`s work when they forbade titles of nobility in this country. Of course they couldn`t...

Imagine a British head of state dispatched to these shores in early 1861 with a Mission Impossible, namely: to treat with President Lincoln and President Davis, conciliate the more prominent...

The first reaction of a history buff on hearing that Lazar Kaganovich had died in Moscow might be to ask: You mean he was still alive? Comrade Kaganovich was 97...

The Baptists, the Presbyterians and now the Episcopalians have all washed their political linen in the public prints, and before it`s over every sect from the Atheists to the Zoroastrians...

Douglas Wilder, the governor of Virginia, is getting a bum rap. He`s catching it for suggesting that senators inquire into the religious beliefs of Clarence Thomas and how those beliefs...

I`ve got to stop eating red meat and reading The New York Times. Both clog the arteries. For example, consider my first, vague reaction to the news that George Bush...

It is with regret that one notes the formal announcement that President Kurt Waldheim of Austria will not be running for re-election next year. Pity. For five years now, he...

It`s been a long, slow, simmering illness, but it`s time to say the unsayable: The civil rights movement is dead. Exhausted by recurrent fevers, distracted by delusions, unable to keep...

What is one to make of Russia, of that vast mystery now unraveling? Is it the best of times or the worst of times? What is one to say when...