Week of January 21, 2019 Archives

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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


Tuesday, January 22
The Hunt for the Nazi Loot on Library Shelves
Milton Esterow New York Times
Charting Some Exploding Medical Mysteries
Anthony J. Sadar Washington Times
Catholics and America: A Question of Loyalty
Richard Reinsch University Bookman
Retaking Native Ground
A.M. Juster Claremont Review of Books
'Reeducating' Xinjiang's Muslims
James Millward New York Review of Books
Paris Among the Artists
Alexander Larman The Guardian
Debussy's Radical Search for Simplicity
Jack Segelstein The Atlantic
Catching Hold of Vital Moments
Heller McAlpin Wall Street Journal
Favourite Quotations, in Conversation
Dwight Garner Times Literary Supplement


Wednesday, January 23
How to Read 52 Books in One Year
Michael Lim Medium
The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson's Archives
Robert Caro New Yorker
In Search of Non-Toxic Manhood
Ross Douthat New York Times
The Marvel of the Human Dad
Anna Machin Aeon
Confessions of a Bad Christian
Harrison Scott Key The American Conservative
Twitter Mob Rule Is Ruining Writing
Lionel Shriver The Spectator
The Illicit Books Industry in Pre-Revolutionary France
Peter Brown History Today
Buckley's American Greatness Narrative
Samuel Goldman Law & Liberty
What's Wrong with Our Schools?
Paul F. Cummins Los Angeles Review of Books


Thursday, January 24
The Best Books I Read in 2018
Gracy Olmstead The American Conservative
The Soldier Who Saved Hemingway's Life Identified
Nick Squires The Telegraph
How Pigeons Waged World War
Joseph C. Goulden Washington Times
Mary Oliver, 83, Poet of the Natural World, Is Dead
Margalit Fox New York Times
Mary Oliver, Our Devotional Poet
Lisa Ampleman America Magazine
Why Millenial Poets Are Turning to the Occult
Sarala Estruch New Statesman
Why Has Technology Turned Against Us?
James Poulos Law & Liberty
The Trouble With the Working Hypothesis
James K. Galbraith Foreign Affairs
Who Tried to Kill Spinoza?
Steven Nadler Jewish Review of Books
The Case for Chopin
Terry Teachout Commentary


Friday, January 25
The Worst Leakers in the West Wing
Cliff Simms Vanity Fair
Recounting 544 Days of Captivity in Iran
Michael J. Totten New York Times
The Internet Was Never Intended to Spy On Us
Jamie Barlett The Spectator
Where Does Truth Fit into Democracy?
David A. Bell The Nation
A History Fit for the Taliban
Hugh Beattie History Today
Liberal Critics of Liberalism
Gerald Russello The American Conservative
Philosophy Can Make the Previously Unthinkable Thinkable
Rebecca Brown Aeon
How We Make the Decisions that Matter the Most
Agnes Callard Boston Review
When Leaders and Millionaires Were Men of Letters
Michael Dirda Washington Post
Humanitarianism in a Fallen World
Robert Royal The Catholic Thing
A New Dracula
Matthew Robare University Bookman
Scientist Corrects Physiology in Gulliver's Travels
Jennifer Ouellette Ars Technica
Book of the Week: 'The Patch' by John McPhee
The Editors RealClearBooks
Monday, January 28
Hitler-Owned Book Shows Plan for N. American Holocaust
Matthew Robinson CNN
A World Without Heroes or Saints
Daniel J. Mahoney American Greatness
The Plight of the Political Convert
Corey Robin New Yorker
The Creation, and Tumultuous Life, of Reddit
Carl Miller Times Literary Supplement
What Would a World Without Pushbuttons Look Like?
Rachel Plotnick Aeon
When Diderot Met Voltaire
Andrew S. Curran The Paris Review
Was Hayek a One-Worlder?
Garreth Bloor Law & Liberty
The Serious, Even Deadly, Effects of Marijuana
Paul Davis Washington Times
The Truth about Babe Ruth
Nicholas Frankovich National Review


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