Week of January 14, 2019 Archives

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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


Tuesday, January 15
How Tintin Exposed the Soviet Union
Joe Summerlad The Independent
Postcards That Fueled the Russian Revolution
Charlotte Hobson The Spectator
Solzhenitsyn in Exile
Christopher Caldwell National Review
The Many Lives of Liberalism
David A. Bell New York Review of Books
Five Books on the Sociology of Inequality
Eve Gerber Five Books
When Federal Agencies Exceed Their Authority
James L. Buckley Washington Times
The Return of Shlomo Sand
Neil Rogachevsky Mosaic
A Secret Trove of Obscene Material
Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston TLS


Wednesday, January 16
How Poe Became Our Era's Storyteller
Michael Capuzzo Smithsonian
Charles Dickens's First Visit to New York
Douglas Muzzio City Journal
From Hunted Slave to Elder Statesman
Adam Goodheart Washington Post
Is the Political Leader Teachable?
Avi Mintz Law & Liberty
Hobbes's Grim Portrait of Human Nature
Lou Marinoff TLS
All the History That Fits a Narrative
Francis P. Sempa University Bookman
Eyewitness to the German Revolution
Peter E. Gordon The Nation
The Horse's Role in Human History
Michael Taube Claremont Review of Books


Thursday, January 17
The Guitar Rivalry That Shaped Rock and Roll
John Pareles New York Times
John Cleese, Professor
Kyle Smith National Review
Originalism's New Critics
Ilan Wurman Claremont Review of Books
Unmanly Contempt for the Constitution
Richard Reinsch Law & Liberty
The Artwork of Winston Churchill
Carolyn Stewart The American Interest
How a Neocon Found the Catholic Church
Casey Chalk The American Conservative
A 3000 Page Translation of the Bible
Rachel Martin NPR
A New Biography of Allah
Eric Ormsby Wall Street Journal


Friday, January 18
Happy Birthday, Norman Podhoretz
Lee Smith Tablet Magazine
Bloody Religion Versus Bloody Secularism
James R. Rogers Law & Liberty
Inside The World's Most Beautiful Bookstore
Bob Mondello NPR
The Craft of John McPhee
Nick Ripatrazone National Review
As Xenophon Saw It
Eve Browning Aeon
Reading Proust in the Gulag
Ayten Tartici New York Times
On Capital Punishment and Good Behavior
Paul Levy The Spectator
The Travails of Social Psychology
Andrew Scull Times Literary Supplement
A Primer on the Geopolitics of Oil
Anand Toprani War on the Rocks
Originalism's New Critics, Part Two
Ilan Wurman Claremont Review of Books
The United Ideologies of America
Adam Smith History Today
When Broadway Became Broadway
Terry Teachout Commentary
Monday, January 21
How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism
Nicholas Carr LARB
Stanley McChrystal's Flawed Study of Leadership
Mikhael Smits National Review
Dealing With Anxiety, Mental Illness and Grief
Judith Newman New York Times
The Case for Idleness
Houman Barekat The Spectator
Last Boat Out of Shanghai
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Wall Street Journal
Francis Fukuyama's Shrinking Idea
Alan Wolfe The New Republic
Francis Fukuyama's Master Concept
Patrick Lee Miller Quillette
To Understand Art, Think Biology
Lance Esplund The Atlantic
Recipes from the Historian’s Cookbook
Alexander Lee History Today


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