More is more and more is also different ~Benjamin Friedman, The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, 2005 For much of the last 70 years,... Read More
Looking for another book not long ago, I stumbled upon Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind. In 1987, it was a... Read More
On November 15, 2019, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified before the House Permanent Select Committee on... Read More
Jack Kerouac, who coined the phrase “Beat Generation,” railed against those who interpreted it as meaning “beat... Read More
Critics of market liberalism (or “neoliberalism”) vary significantly in the criticisms they develop. The best known criticisms... Read More
For much of the last three years, the impeachment of President Trump seemed inevitable. The left refused to accept his 2016 victory... Read More
Perhaps the most widely embraced priority among mental-health policymakers is that of reducing "stigma," or the mark of shame commonly... Read More
As Douglas Murray says, Sir Roger Scruton was as scintillating in conversation as he was on the page. It was typical of Roger’s... Read More
‘I consist of the shards into which the Republic of Kolyma shattered me,’ Varlam Shalamov once told a fellow gulag survivor.... Read More
This morning, a couple stood outside my window, arguing. “What does that mean?” the woman kept saying. “What does that... Read More
In 1942, the conditions under which the war was being fought by Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s forces in the South Pacific were... Read More
It might seem inappropriate, even offensive, to say this, but I’ve enjoyed spending time with Roger Scruton today. I know he would... Read More
Secession. It’s a crazy idea, right? But it’s less crazy than you might think. With all the secessionist movements across the... Read More
For most of American history, Anti-Federalists, those opponents of the Constitution, played the role of the loser. The attention received... Read More
The time in which we have children at home is actually only a fraction of our working lives. So Pamela Stone and Meg Lovejoy-scholars at the... Read More
The sentences are the most vatic and deranged in American criticism: Milton is “the Sphinx who strangles even strong imaginations in... Read More
In the 1940s, when Mel Brooks launched himself into comedy, he invented a persona: “Crazy Mel.” Perhaps you remember Crazy Mel:... Read More
On Monday the New York Public Library, celebrating its 125th anniversary, released a list of the 10 most-checked-out books in the... Read More
Even in the profane twenty-first century, it is difficult to overstate the importance of Westminster Abbey. As the coronation church for... Read More
Amity Shlaes has written a powerful book. It is the most interesting and substantive account of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon’s “war on poverty” to date — and just in time. In Great Society: A New History, she notes that “just as the 1960s forgot the failures of the 1930s, we today forget the failures of the 1960s.” Shlaes has written 510 pages of argumentation, with detailed de... Read More
In the 1940s, when Mel Brooks launched himself into comedy, he invented a persona: “Crazy Mel.” Perhaps you remember Crazy Mel: He was exuberant, reckless, loud—a wild, comedic id. Carson loved him. So did his audience. When Crazy Mel wasn’t vamping on TV, he was mugging in photos, including one gloriously zany shot in which he appears wild-eyed and open-mouthed, like a zoo animal hit with... Read More
It might seem inappropriate, even offensive, to say this, but I’ve enjoyed spending time with Roger Scruton today. I know he would understand. I’ve been looking at e-mails from him, and listening to a podcast or two we did together. It’s hard to think of better company. The great thinker and writer has died today — Sunday, January 12 — at age 75. His books and essays will go on and on.... 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...
