Week of April 15, 2019 Archives

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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


Tuesday, April 16
Antonin Scalia's Suggestion for Harried People
Kathryn Jean Lopez National Review
Will Tocqueville's Dilemma Crash America?
Bryan Garsten Tablet Magazine
How “Zionist” Become a Dirty Word to Left
J.J. Goldberg New York Times
A Study of Appeasement Underlines Britain's Mistakes
Susan Pederson The Guardian
That Old-Time Civil Religion
Richard M. Gamble University Bookman
On Maxim Osipov's 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'
Bob Blasidell LARB
Ben Shapiro's 'The Right Side of History'
Jared Marcel Pollen Quillette
Adventures in Modernism
Jeet Heer The New Republic
In Defense of Disorder
Alan Lightman Aeon
T.S. Eliot in Support of Cultural Co-operation
T.S. Eliot Times Literary Supplement


Wednesday, April 17
How Shakespeare's Invisible Hand Influenced Adam Smith
Stuart Kells Smithsonian
The Birth of the Book
Benjamin Harnett Aeon
How Tim Cook Succeeded Steve Jobs
Steven Sinofsky Wall Street Journal
Treating a Historic Massacre as an Active Crime Scene
Parul Sehgal New York Times
Why Our Political Leaders Make Terrible Decisions
Steven Poole New Statesman
My Father Threatened to Sue Me for My First Novel
Michael Holroyd Spectator
A Feat of Biblical Proportions
Paul Hond Columbia Magazine
Germany Welcomes Back Priceless Books Lost in WWII
Kate Connolly The Guardian
The Key to Old World Borscht
Leah Koenig Tablet Magazine
Richard Powers and Forrest Gander Win Pulitzer Prizes
Michael Schaub LAT
Podcast: Victor Hugo Helped France Rediscover Notre Dame
Robin Young WBUR
Video: Andrew Yang Discusses 'The War on Normal People'
The Ben Shapiro Show


Thursday, April 18
More People Should Read This Danish Masterpiece
Garth Risk Hallberg Literary Hub
What Pulitzer Prize-Winners Should You Read?
Concepción de León NYT
An Interview with Norman Podhoretz
Claremont Review of Books
Victor Hugo's 'Hunchback' Tops Bestseller Lists After Fire
Jon Henley The Guardian
Bret Easton Ellis on Kanye, a New Novel, and (Yes) Trump
Corey Seymour Vogue
How Did Liberal Democracy Arise from Illiberal Soil?
Barton Swaim WSJ
The Ambiguity of Stalin
Jeremy Fiedman Modern Age
Did European Colonisation Precipitate the Little Ice Age?
Dagomar Degroot Aeon
What's the Deal With George W.S. Trow?
Kyle Chayka The Nation
William Peter Blatty: There is Good in 'The Exorcist'
William Peter Blatty America
How Philip Larkin Effed Me Up
James Tooley Spectator
Podcast: Jill Lepore on Nationalism, Populism, and America
Russ Roberts EconTalk
Podcast: Robert Caro On Fame, Power, and 'Working'
Dave Davies NPR


Friday, April 19
Tolkien's First Words
John Mullan New Statesman
Socialism's Life after Death
Paul Hollander National Review
The History of Civilization Told Through Literature
Daniel Miller CRB
Is Karl Ove Knausgaard Munch's Doppelgänger?
Sue Prideaux Spectator
5 Books on Poetry Pulitzer Winner Forrest Gander's List
Forrest Gander Vulture
Exploring Shakespeare's Parish of the 1590s
Geoffrey Marsh Times Literary Supplement
The Longest Wars
George Packer Foreign Affairs
The United States, Balancer of First Resort?
Patrick J. Garrity Law & Liberty
On the British Slave Trade, Abolitionism, and Amnesia
Jeremy Black Encounter Books
On Billy Lee Brammer and 'The Gay Place'
Michael Upchurch American Interest
Hiking With Nietzsche
Steven Poole The Guardian
Paul Hollander, R.I.P.
Theodore Dalrymple City Journal
Decolonizing Philanthropy
Michael Harrtmann Philanthropy Roundtable
Gene Wolfe Was the Proust of Science Fiction
Jeet Heer The New Republic
A Religious Satire for the 21st Century
Micah Mattix The American Conservative
Cheers! Why Fizz Makes Us Happy
Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez & Roberto Zenit Aeon
Monday, April 22
How the Navy Revolutionized Air Combat
Joseph C. Goulden Washington Times
Looking for Shakespeare's Library
Stuart Kells Lapham's Quarterly
The Rise and Fall of the City Upon a Hill
Alex Beam Wall Street Journal
Time to Forget Robinson Crusoe?
Charles Boyle The Guardian
The Compelling Case for Large Corporations
Kevin Williamson National Review
Fighting the Scourge of Everyday Violence
Thomas Abt Foreign Affairs
Fukuyama's Hollow Nation-State
Scott Yenor Law & Liberty
The Making of an Anti-Semitic Myth
Jacob Soll The New Republic
Redemption in Catalonia and Bosnia
David Stern Jewish Review of Books
The Godfather of Modern Architecture
Philip Johnson New York Review of Books
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Were Completely Dysfunctional
David Kirby WaPo


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