Penn’s Anthea Butler reflects on Elizabeth’s legacy. Here is a taste of her piece at MSNBC: “As a religious leader, Queen Elizabeth II was consistent but willing to adapt.” In his first remarks after the death of his mother, Queen […]
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Who were Charles I and Charles II?
And why did the British monarch decide to call himself Charles III? Here is historian Emilie Brinkman at The Washington Post; The death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest ruling monarch, has heralded the ascension of a new British monarch […]
Professor: “May [Queen Elizabeth’s] pain be excruciating”
Recently someone criticized me for suggesting that there are those on the political left whose rhetoric is just as damaging as those on the right. In response to this critic I offer the case of Uju Anya, a professor of […]
Andrew Sullivan reacts to the death of Queen Elizabeth
It’s really interesting to hear from a conservative like Sullivan who clearly loves his home country. Sullivan’s tweet about Elizabeth’s character is particularly poignant. I am sure he will write something longer on the queen’s death, but for now here […]
Eugene Robinson remembers Queen Elizabeth II
The Washington Post columnist calls the queen “the last of her kind.” Here is a taste: I was The Post’s London bureau chief in the early 1990s, when Charles’s marriage to Princess Diana was falling apart in the worst possible […]