Aaron MacLean is a writer and policy analyst in Washington, D.C. From 2014 to 2017 he was the managing editor of the Washington Free Beacon.
A History of Landscape
Review: ‘Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection,’ at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. through May 8
The Wolf With a Thousand Faces
Review: Waller R. Newell, ‘Tyrants: A History of Power, Injustice, and Terror’
Two Sides of the COIN
Review: John Nagl, ‘Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice’
Everything You Need to Know About the Single Malt
Review: Marcel van Gils and Hans Offringa, '200 Years of Laphroaig'
Before the Flood
Review: Vigée Le Brun at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 15
In Putin’s Shadow
Review: Robert D. Kaplan, ‘In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond’
New Hampshire and the End of History
Essay: Populism, socialism, and the shattered consensus
The Spartan Version
Review: Paul A. Rahe, 'The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge'
Alexander Gardner’s Glory
Review: 'Dark Fields of the Republic: Alexander Gardner Photographs 1859-1872,' at the National Portrait Gallery through March 16