Week of April 8, 2019 Archives

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Monday, April 8
The Meaning of 'Slaughterhouse-Five', 50 Years Later
James Parker The Atlantic
Liberals Are Wrong about Kanye West
Bret Easton Ellis New York Post
The Cracking of a Cold, Cold Case
Robert Kolker New York Times
Harold Bloom: Anti-Inkling?
Michael Weingrad Jewish Review of Books
Pete Buttigieg’s Favorite Book Is 'Ulysses'
Charles Finch Vulture
The Transcendental Friendship of Emerson and Thoreau
Danny Heitman WSJ
'I Have Let Whitman Alone'
Brenda Wineapple New York Review of Books
William Burns’s Decades of Diplomacy
James Rosen National Review
A Study of the Midwestern Identity
Nicole M. King University Bookman
Murder by the Book
Claire Hopley Washington Times


Tuesday, April 9
Arthur C. Brooks' Book Recommendations
Arthur Brooks The Week
Julius Caesar's Campaign Book
Barry Strauss Wall Street Journal
Between Rome and 'Jerusalem and Athens'
Richard Reinsch University Bookman
The Real Artist Behind Duchamp's Fountain?
Siri Hustvedt The Guardian
Tough-on-Crime Prosecutors Contribute to Mass Incarceration
David Lat NYT
Nathan Glazer—Merit Before Meritocracy
Peter Skerry The American Interest
Was the Real Socrates More Worldly Than We Knew?
Armand D'Angour Aeon
Diderot and the Enlightenment Cult of Reason
Algis Viliunas National Review
Lawrence Ferlinghetti in the Spotlight
Joseph Bottom Washington Free Beacon
The Long History of the Color Blue
Jesse Russell Claremont Review of Books


Wednesday, April 10
Salvador Dali Meets The Marx Brothers
Peter Breslow NPR
Losing Religion in Flyover Country
Mike St. Thomas American Interest
Meditations for the Masses
Benjamin Shull Wall Street Journal
The Stoic Philosopher of the Lockup
Thomas Chatterton Williams New York Times
Nature Writing's Fascist Roots
Richard Smyth New Statesman
Anti-Semitism Now
Chloe Valdari Jewish Review of Books
The Travails of Emmanuel Macron
Cole Stangler The Nation
In the Culture Wars, Be a Sancho Panza, Not a Don Quixote
Terry Newman Quillette
What’s the Most Important Lesson History Has Taught Me?
History Today
The Importance of Being Iris
Emina Melonic University Bookman


Thursday, April 11
On the Eve of the Great Psychedelic Debate
Matthew Blackwell Quillette
'Extraodinary' Library Catalogue Reveals Books Lost to Time
Alison Flood Guardian
Socialism Fails Every Time
Joshua Muravchik Wall Street Journal
The Cold War Made the World Safe for Propaganda
Kristen R. Ghodsee The Baffler
The Human Cost of the Panama Canal
Andreas Campomar The Spectator
It Is Very Easy to Die Here
Rachel Nolan LRB
Modernity's Projects and the Loss of Human Dignity
Lee Trepanier Law & Liberty
A Case for the Study of Islam’s ‘Other’ History
Fitzroy Morrissey History Today
Whose Midwest?
John Wilson First Things
Ruth Reichl's Six Favorite Novels
Ruth Reichl The Week


Friday, April 12
This History Book Is Causing a Stir in France
Benjamin Ivry Time
Five Best Books on Life as a Civil War Soldier
Peter S. Carmichael Wall Street Journal
Denying the Neuroscience of Sex Differences
Larry Cahill Quillette
Albert Camus Found Solace in the Absurdity of Football
MM Owen The Independent
The Secrets of Pitching's Outlaws
Tyler Kepner New York Times
From the Trenches to the Shire and Narnia
Mark Melton Providence
Don Vito Corleone's World Turns 50
Paul Davis Washington Times
The Return of McKinley's Republican Party
Philip A. Wallach The American Interest
Charles de Gaulle’s Big Idea
Andrew Lycett History Today
A Blizzard of Prescriptions
Emily Witt London Review of Books
A Chat with Hugh and Guy
Scott Beauchamp Claremont Review of Books
Sketches of Native America
John Wilson First Things
Deciphering the Mystery of Joy Division
James Parker The Atlantic
Ingmar Bergman, Novelist
Daniel Mendelsohn New York Review of Books
Reclaiming Central Planning from the Corporations
Brendan James The Baffler
Are We Living in a Simulation? MIT Scientist Says Yes
Dyllan Furness Digital Trends
Today, Making a Joke Can Be A Life-Changing Mistake
Toby Young The Spectator
Woke's on You
Roger Kimball The New Criterion
Monday, April 15
Michel Houellebecq on Religion and Faith
Geoffrey Lejeune First Things
How Did Valerie Jarrett Game NYT's Bestseller List?
Luke Rosiak Daily Caller
Conservatives Need to Start Taking Art Seriously
Michael J. Pearce Quillette
The Myth of the American Frontier
Jedediah Britton-Purdy The Nation
The Uprooting of American Order
Jeff Polet Modern Age
India’s First World War Experience
Suzanne Bardgett History Today
The Centenary of the Amritsar Massacre
William Dalrymple The Spectator
The ABA and Elite Law Schools Caused Polarization
John O. McGinnis Law & Liberty
Why Robert Caro Still Writes 1000-Page Books by Hand
Chris Kornelis WSJ
Busy Doing Nothing
Megan Marz The Baffler
Ruth Reichl Dishes on the Last Days of Gourmet Magazine
Kate Betts NYT


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