Fiametta Rocco, Five Books: 'It’s the story of Oleg Gordievsky, who was probably the...
In 1986, John Cleese saw an ad in a Los Angeles magazine that claimed the following: “Buddhism gives you the competitive edge!”... Read More
“We have been told that Faust sold his soul for the right to command the moment to remain,” Winston Churchill told the... Read More
There is a famous Persian proverb, Sokuni be-dast ar ey by sabât, ke bar sang-e ġaltân na-ruyad nabât, which translates to... Read More
David Keenan's debut novel, This is Memorial Device, about a small town in Lanarkshire and its post-punk scene, showed that it wasn't easy... Read More
No one can accuse Jack Miles of shying away from ticklish subjects. Following two acclaimed biographies, the Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read More
Brett Kavanaugh's ascension to the United States Supreme Court is sure to thrust originalism center stage in the debates over constitutional... Read More
John Marini is a revolutionary scholar on how our Constitution is undermined by the administrative state. He comes to Liberty Law Talk to... Read More
Like a lot of paradigm-shifting inventions, the solid-body electric guitar seems inevitable in hindsight. Someone was bound to realize that a... Read More
Fiametta Rocco, Five Books: 'It’s the story of Oleg Gordievsky, who was probably the...
Here are the stories of men and women who build things, walk across continents, play video games, study ice and fire, build trans-continental highways, engineer software and bridges; stories of insects, plants, biophysics, dinosaurs, time, reality, artificial intelligence, energy. Dig in. Read More
No American intellectual shaped the terms of post-1960s cultural criticism quite like Christopher Lasch. Heir to a dominant liberalism that promised all things to all peoples, he struck instead a pessimistic pose denouncing the noxious alchemy of capitalism, consumption, and the growing authority of the “therapeutic professions.” The subtitle of his surprising 1979 bestseller, The Culture of N Read More
Mere days before the Declaration of Independence was signed in July 1776, 20,000 spectators gathered in a field where Manhattan's modern-day Chinatown lies. All together, soldiers and citizens alike, they amassed the largest crowd to watch a public execution in the colonies at the time. Two days earlier Thomas Hickey, a member of the elite guard responsible for protecting George Washington, was co Read More
