The last time America was convulsed with race riots coast to coast, the then white Eastern establishment panicked and allowed activists and... Read More
The debate over American iconography between the politically correct left and the patriotically correct right leaves out an essential... Read More
The coronavirus crisis has revealed at least this much: Elites hold more power over the lives of ordinary Americans than most of us... Read More
Helena Rosenblatt’s The Lost History of Liberalism tells an interesting story and tells it well. The prose is lucid and... Read More
“The king is dead. Long live the king!” This seemingly contradictory proclamation made upon the death of a monarch encapsulates... Read More
As if parodying the era’s radical chic, a 1967 issue of Lui magazine (France’s Playboy) included a supplement... Read More
It was december 1989, the Berlin Wall had fallen, and in Dresden, crowds were gathering outside the headquarters of the Stasi, the East... Read More
Cormac McCarthy of all living American novelists has realized most fully the potential grandeur of his métier by revealing... Read More
To the question implicit in all of Søren Kierkegaard’s writings—how can one be a human being in the world?—one is... Read More
Something really strange is going on in America today. If you have wondered why political correctness requires you to avoid using the word... Read More
The Greek philosopher Aristotle did not merely condone slavery, he defended it; he did not merely defend it, but defended it as beneficial... Read More
Postclassicisms strikes a progressive pose. Jointly authored by the “Postclassicisms Collective” – whose nine members... Read More
Beyond the study of character and the dishing of high gossip, one of the nobler aims of biography is the exploration of the representative... Read More
Imagine that a university has two assistant-professor positions, one for a professor of environmental economics and another for a professor... Read More
On September 9, 1938, John Maynard Keynes, fifty-five years old and the most famous economist in the world, read his essay “My Early... Read More
A bleak fact of writing is that honing sentences is often far easier than honing the thoughts they convey. A corollary fact is that... Read More
“Ifeel like the first men who read Wordsworth. / It’s so simple I can’t understand it.” Randall Jarrell’s... Read More
Whenever Cockburn has watched Diamond and Silk, whether they’re getting a heroes’ welcome at CPAC or sassing a left-wing... Read More
Tevi Troy’s new book, “Fight House: Rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump,” examines the feuds —some over important issues, some over petty issues, some ultimately constructive, others decidedly destructive — at the pinnacle of American governance over the last seven decades. Troy himself is an interesting figure: Holding a PhD and having authored four books, he has, at the s... Read More
Even after his 1905 annus mirrabilis, when he published articles that laid the foundations for a new physics of special relativity, Albert Einstein could not secure an academic position for four years. In 1909, still working at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, he applied for a position of “extraordinary” (non-tenured) professor at the University of Zurich. The search committee placed Einstei... Read More
On March 16, 1968, James Baldwin walked to the podium at a fund-raiser, at Anaheim’s Disneyland Hotel, to introduce Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Baldwin had recently arrived in Los Angeles from New York, after Columbia Pictures had bought the rights to Alex Haley’s “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” and asked Baldwin to write the script. Though eager, he had ended up fighting desperately to b... 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...
