Member of the literary brat pack, provacateur behind 'American Psycho', and, now, successful podcaster, Bret Easton Ellis has published his first work of non-fiction in 'White'....
If you're old enough to remember the Soviet Union, you've probably wondered why so many young people today seem attracted to socialism. One... Read More
Impeachment is a doleful affair. The nation has impeached a president only twice, and in each case the Senate failed to remove him from... Read More
In September of 1959, Nikita Khrushchev made his Hollywood debut. The Soviet premier had arrived in the United States for a twelve-day tour... Read More
Cambridge, England — All Soviet dissidents are legendary, to one degree or another. Vladimir Bukovsky is especially so. He is held... Read More
Arguably the most infamous demand of The Communist Manifesto is the “abolition of the family.” The family, Marx and... Read More
On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated during a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. The nation mourned his tragic and... Read More
Economist Tyler Cowen begins his engaging and valuable new book, Big Business, by declaring that “we live in an age when the... Read More
These two refreshingly concise books address the same question from different angles: how should we deal with Russia? Mark Galeotti focuses... Read More
What year is it? It's 2019, obviously. An easy question. Last year was 2018. Next year will be 2020. We are confident that a century ago it... Read More
When I was a teenage sailor serving aboard an aircraft carrier during the Vietnam War, “sea stories” was a pejorative term,... Read More
Member of the literary brat pack, provacateur behind 'American Psycho', and, now, successful podcaster, Bret Easton Ellis has published his first work of non-fiction in 'White'....
In Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, Wilfred M. McClay has produced an inspiring exploration of America's... Read More
The novelist Elias Canetti liked to say: ‘I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare: “Relax!”' – and Susan... Read More
International bestselling author Jax Miller lists her favorite true crime reads.People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into... Read More
Is socialism “back in fashion,” as the Economist recently observed? Senator Bernie Sanders, who has called himself a... Read More
Readers of The New York Review, to which he was a regular contributor over many years, need no introduction to Oliver Sacks. A number of the... Read More
St Augustine was probably the first major thinker to discuss at length how states use enemies for their own internal purposes. He traces... Read More
There have been many famous philosophical friendships. Political scientist Dennis C. Rasmussen lists some of the most important: Socrates and... Read More
In 1865, Andrew Johnson ascended to the presidency in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and embarked on a perverse campaign... Read More
Everything you know about x is wrong” has always been a hit with the reading public. Take Columbus. On Columbus Day, the... Read More
In My Father Left Me Ireland, Michael Brendan Dougherty explores his cultural inheritance, reconciling his childhood and familial past... Read More
No one else in biology has ever had a career quite like that of Edward O. Wilson. One of the world's leading authorities on ants, an... Read More
When I was 22 years old, Nathan Glazer, the Harvard professor of education and sociology who died this past January, stood for everything I... Read More
Some say it is a medieval medical manual written in abbreviated Latin and aimed at well-to-do women. Not true, say others: it... Read More
In her memoirs, published in 1960, Peggy Guggenheim deplored the state of the art market in America. Guggenheim was one of the great... Read More
Years ago, a friend persuaded me that a reviewer should almost never give a book a bad review. Most books, he argued, are written with honest... Read More
C.M. Kushins' Nothing's Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon opens with Zevon waking up in the middle of the night, confused and scared. The... Read More
Everything you know about x is wrong” has always been a hit with the reading public. Take Columbus. On Columbus Day, the righteous will complain that students aren't taught the ugly truth about the Great Admiral. They will push this point, as they do every year, as if Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States hadn't scuttled Columbus's reputation decades ago. (As if, even before th Read More
Is socialism “back in fashion,” as the Economist recently observed? Senator Bernie Sanders, who has called himself a socialist throughout a long political career, is a leading contender for next year's Democratic presidential nomination after his surprisingly strong challenge to Hillary Clinton in 2016. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a rock star, the most famous first-year member Read More
There have been many famous philosophical friendships. Political scientist Dennis C. Rasmussen lists some of the most important: Socrates and Plato; Plato and Aristotle; Bentham and Mill; Erasmus and More; Heidegger and Arendt; Marx and Engels; Sartre and de Beauvoir; Whitehead and Russell; Emerson and Thoreau. (He might have added Rousseau and Diderot, though that one ended badly.) But as Rasmuss Read More
