RealClear Media Group, parent company of RealClear Politics, today announced the launch of its latest content expansion: a new-model book publishing imprint that aims to diversify and disrupt the existing market for...
Narendra Modi landed in Israel in the summer of 2017. His visit to the Jewish state, the first by an Indian prime minister, was historic.... Read More
True socialists do not want a better world, they want a perfect one. That is why they so often view piecemeal amelioration with disdain or... Read More
There are philosophers who devote their entire careers to understanding the relation between the brain, that lump of gray matter inside our... Read More
These two new books give lucid, stimulating accounts of recent discoveries in neuroscience and psychology. Both authors aim to challenge... Read More
Jared Diamond doesn't use a computer. He relies “completely” on his secretary and on his wife for “anything”... Read More
Vasily Grossman is hard to pigeonhole. A Jewish novelist and journalist and not a party member, he was one of the Soviet Union's leading war... Read More
For years, fantasists who peddle the fiction that Shakespeare didn't write the plays attributed to him have failed to... Read More
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant,” wrote Emily Dickinson. One way to get an oblique angle on today's truth is to frame... Read More
RealClear Media Group, parent company of RealClear Politics, today announced the launch of its latest content expansion: a new-model book publishing imprint that aims to diversify and disrupt the existing market for...
Looking for the perfect Father's Day gift? A welcome addition to your summer reading list? A timely inspiration to dig deeper in your faith?... Read More
cannot remember the last time I made my bed. I suspect that it must have been during the Clinton administration. I could not even say with... Read More
Summer reading—so much expectation and anxiety and judgment is compressed within those two words! June hardly has a chance to... Read More
You know a book has entered your bloodstream when the ground beneath your feet, once viewed as bedrock, suddenly becomes a roof to unknown... Read More
Awraith stares out from the dust jacket of the final volume of Nigel Hamilton's trilogy on Franklin Roosevelt at war. FDR is wrapped in his... Read More
Lawsuits against Harvard University have kept the school's race relations in the news lately. During the fall and winter, a case alleging... Read More
History, or at least the study of it, is in bad shape these days. Almost everyone agrees that knowing history is important, but in the United... Read More
The black typewriter gives a satisfying “clack” when I hit its keys. The antiquated contraption sits on an upstairs windowsill in... Read More
It starts with a burger.In 2008 a Dutch professor named Mark Post presented the proof of concept for what he called “cultured meat.” Five years later, in a London TV studio, Mr. Post and his colleagues ate a burger they had grown from animal cells in a laboratory. Secretly funded by Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, the journey from petri dish to plate had cost $325,000 — making theirs th Read More
Frontiers have a dynamism of their own in Graham Greene's fiction, and typically set off a reflex of unease. The novelist's father, Charles Greene, had been the pious Anglican headmaster of a public school in Berkhamsted near London, and each day the schoolboy Greene experienced divided loyalties as he left the family quarters to go to class. Greene's literary gift, later, was to locate the mome Read More
There is a huge literature on the Third Reich and the explosion of state violence it provoked, first in Germany and then across Europe. The destruction of tens of millions of people culled from ethnic groups, above all European Jewry but also Slavs, Roma and Sinti and gay men and women, as well as members of political organisations considered enemies of the Nazi state, has come to define the histo Read More
In Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, Wilfred M. McClay has produced an inspiring exploration of America’s past that is out of step with the fashionably fractured narratives...
