The English have had a penchant for the most unlikely heros, heros they’ve honored more—in the classical meaning of that much abused phrase—in the breach than in the observance. Carlyle was one such ...
In the review of my book William Cobbett: The Poor Man’s Friend in The New Criterion for October, Gertrude Himmelfarb states that Cobbett “passionately opposed” the Reform Act of 1832. As every ...