Week of January 7, 2019 Archives

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Monday, January 7
New York Times Ignores Alice Walker's Anti-Semitism
Richard Cohen RealClearPolitics
Alice Walker Praises Anti-Semitic Author as 'Brave'
Alexandra Alter New York Times
Abramson: New York Times Eager to Appease China
Marcus Baram Fast Company
Fairy Tales for Young Socialists
Michael Rosen The Atlantic
How Gulbenkian Became the Richest Man in the World
Philip Hensher The Spectator
Oren Cass Wants to Preserve Obsolete Jobs
Allan Golombek RealClearMarkets
Shrinking the Administrative State
Gene Epstein City Journal
A Raucous Takedown of the NFL
Jane Leavy Wall Street Journal


Tuesday, January 8
Solzhenitsyn's 'Golden Matrix' Speech, Translated
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn NRO
5 Books That Explain What Will Happen In 2019
Sumantra Maitra The Federalist
How Elon Musk Took On the Auto Industry
David Silverberg Washington Post
There's No Such Thing as a Free Speech
Joseph Bottum Washington Free Beacon
Rebuilding a Fragile Political Order
Nathaniel Peters Law & Liberty
A Look Back at the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble
Brian Mcullough TED
Lionel Trilling in the Age of Enormity
Adam Kirsch National Review
Five Books on Samuel Beckett
Mark Nixon Five Books
Texas Authors on Their Favorite Books of 2018
Charlie Locke Texas Monthly


Wednesday, January 9
Is Tony Soprano Dead or Not?
Christopher Orr The Atlantic
Stanley McChrystal's Gooey New Book
Joseph Bottum Washington Free Beacon
The Plot to Kill George Washington
Anna Diamond Smithsonian
John Marshall Built the Court Around His Agenda
John Fabian Witt New Republic
Revisiting Russia's Tumultuous Roots
Joshua Sinai Washington Times
The Ministry of Mr. Rogers
Robert Sullivan New York Review of Books
Short Fiction is Alive and Well in Every Form
Sam Sacks Wall Street Journal
Signs Your Child Might Be Texting about Jeeves and Wooster
Ben Schott Spectator


Thursday, January 10
The Seven Best Books We've Ever Received
The Editors The American Scholar
The Fascinating History of Baseball Cards
Noah Frank WTOP
Hermann Hesse on the Art of Taking Responsibility
Maria Popova Brain Pickings
Why Are Conservatives Afraid of Higher Education?
Paul W. Gleason LARB
The Temptation for Preventative War Won't Die
David S. Brown American Conservative
From the Archives: A 1978 Interview with Elie Wiesel
The Paris Review
Inside Fidel Castro’s March to Victory
Daniel Rey History Today
Who Killed Edwin Drood?
Pete Orford Times Literary Supplement


Friday, January 11
The Gilded Age's 'Crime of the Century'
Zachary Kussin New York Post
11 New Books to Read This January
Annabel Gutterman Time
Our Spiritual Opioid Crisis
Daniel P. Deavel National Review
How to Build the Benedict Option
Micah Meadowcroft Free Beacon
Science's Blind Spot
Evan Thompson & Marcelo Gleiser & Adam Frank Aeon
Nassim Nicholas Taleb the Philosopher
Joshua P. Hochschild First Things
Christopher Lasch, Populist Prophet
David S. Brown American Conservative
Kafka's Last Trial
John Banville The Guardian
Birds in the Ancient World
Mathew Lyons History Today
A New History of the Hollywood Blacklist
Phillip Lopate TLS
A Trove of Ideas in Writer's Letters
Tyler Malone Lapham's Quarterly
Book of the Week: 'The Spy and the Traitor'
The Editors RealClearBooks
Monday, January 14
On Reading the Bible for the First Time
John J. Miller National Review
What Sets Us Apart from Other Animals?
David P. Barash Wall Street Journal
Adam Smith Shaped How We Think about Society
Milton Ezrati City Journal
Is Populism What's Really Threatening Democracy?
Steven Hahn The Nation
Hungary is on a Dangerous Nationalistic Path
Philip Mansel The Spectator
The Writers Hounded by the FBI
Douglas Kennedy New Statesman
Allen Ginsberg Behind the Iron Curtain
Jake Marmer Tablet Magazine
Domesday Book is More Recent Than Thought
Jennifer Ouellette Ars Technica


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