Broad Oak Magazine

The 1945 plan https://www.fdrlibrary.org/address-text was radical: full employment, housing, health, education and welfare - and FDR might ...

What if? What if Henry Wallace had become Vice-President in FDR’s fourth term, and suddenly been faced in 1945 with the smorgasbord of dif...

The EU has not been an unmixed blessing, suffering as it does from idealism. The holy goal of supranational unity and the extension of its b...

In a previous piece about how the pandemic was a very useful smokescreen for the surreptitious advancement of all things green, I laid out s...

On 18 July 1961 the founding countries of the EEC issued the ‘Bonn Declaration,’ a commitment to expansion and unification. A contemporary c...

A new #3 this week, from Cliff Richard: Some memorable events (via  Wikipedia ): 9 July: following the  coup of 27 May 1960, a Turkish refe...

One of my old friends once told me how an accident saved his life. He slipped in his driveway, and the subsequent CAT scan uncovered a growt...