Some 16,000 books have been written about Abraham Lincoln—more than any other historical figure except Jesus. But there has never been... Read More
The political world was stunned on July 24, 2019, when Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller testified before the House and Senate. It... Read More
I doubt most of the belligerents associated with Turning Point USA, the Daily Wire and Blaze TV would know what to do if they were... Read More
“I would like to be helpful,” Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote me on February 1, 2002. “The problem is time.” She said she... Read More
Two of 2020’s best-sellers were published in 2018 and 2019, respectively: White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo, and How to Be... Read More
It is by now well known that some of the greatest modern philosophers held racist views. John Locke (1632-1704), David Hume (1711-76),... Read More
When the socialist government of Michael Manley came to power in Jamaica in 1972, the charismatic new prime minister asked the up-and-coming... Read More
We have reached a time when each of us must make an effort to rediscover what Adams and Jefferson and the other Founders meant when they... Read More
When G. E. Moore died in 1958 the obituary notices mourned the death of a “great philosopher”. But now, some sixty years after... Read More
Professors Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule of the Harvard Law School are perhaps today’s two most distinguished defenders of the... Read More
A A funny story. Edith Wharton was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921 (it was published in 1920), but... Read More
“It’s so lovely now,” Jimi Hendrix said in his muzzy mumble, his topplingly elegant, close-to-gibberish, discreetly... Read More
Come holiday or hurricane, one thing you can count on is that The New York Times’s best-seller lists will be published... Read More
FROM THE AUTHOR: “Loose Ends” is a literary supercut composed entirely of last lines from 137 science fiction and fantasy... Read More
Christopher Hitchens loved life, his great friend Martin Amis once observed. And Amis himself? “I like life.” It was a typical... Read More
No state escapes unscathed in Colin Quinn's new book: Vermont is "The Old Hippie"; Florida is "The Hot Mess"; in Wisconsin, "The Diet Starts... Read More
We Americans live in a debased version of democracy in which basic parts of the federal government betray, by design, the principle of... Read More
David French has written an engaging book about the threat of American secession, without satisfactorily explaining why that would... Read More
In August 2019, as young journalists agitated for their newsrooms to pivot toward social justice, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's research center at... Read More
In her 1989 landmark decision in City of Richmond v. Croson, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor criticized identity politics by pointing... Read More
Agood time for thinking about Francisco Goya is while the world stumbles. Crisis becomes him. “Goya: A Portrait of the Artist”... Read More
George Orwell once proposed that the specimen literary career takes the form of a parabola in which the downward curve is implied in the... Read More
Winston Groom, a Southern writer who found a measure of belated celebrity when his 1986 novel, “Forrest Gump,” was made into... Read More
Many of the Korean fairy tales told by William Elliot Griffis begin rather pedagogically. “Korea is the land of beautiful scenery... Read More
Michael Anton was working in his small home office, almost four years ago to the day, when his wife came in and told him the news. Rush Limbaugh was reading it, on the air, right now. ‘It’ was his essay, a now notorious essay, a soon to be life changing essay, called ‘The Flight 93 Election’. Anton had published it, pseudonymously, with the Claremont Review of Books a few days before. L... Read More
In the early 1920s a French businessman, Leon Bel, was looking for a name for his new brand of processed cheese. He remembered seeing a meat wagon on the World War One battlefields with the sardonic name ‘La Wachkyrie’. Like the Valkyries in Wagner, it brought solace to fallen soldiers in the field. Bel thought it would do very well, and gave his cheese the same name in a more orthodox spellin... Read More
In America today, right is wrong, men are women, 2+2=5, and the truth as we all understood it is over. What happened? In his philosophic survival guide for our postmodern age,
