Week of April 22, 2019 Archives

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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


Tuesday, April 23
Yuval Harari's Evolving Vision of Mankind
Jeffrey Folks University Bookman
How the Classics Made Shakespeare
Elizabeth Winkler Wall Street Journal
The Many Lives of Frank Harris
Michael Holroyd The Spectator
Mario Vargas Llosa's Political Education
Patrick Iber The Nation
The Canonization of Richard Holbrooke
Thomas Meaney The New Republic
Spinoza Matters More than Ever
Steven Nadler Aeon
The Remarkable Ben Hecht
Mark Horowitz New York Times
Pulitzer Prize Committee Accused of Nepotism
Valerie Richardson Washington Times
My Life as JT LeRoy, the Great Literary Hoaxer
Hadley Freeman The Guardian
A History of Takeout Food
Monica L. Smith Time
Lock Your Doors?
Ryan Chapman Longreads
Podcast: A Conversation with Christopher DeMuth
Ben Judge The American Mind


Wednesday, April 24
Fear and Loathing in the Lone Star State
Mark Pulliam Law & Liberty
Reading 'Slaughterhouse-Five' in Baghdad
Alex Horton Washington Post
Eyewitness to the 20th Century's Worst Atrocities
Robert Chandler The Spectator
How America Can Recover Its Place in World Affairs
John R. Coyne Jr. WashTimes
Tolkien's Art: Full of Color & Magic
Sarah Schutte National Review
Reviewing a Massacre
Zareer Masani History Today
A Good Democracy Is Hard to Find
Thomas Carothers Foreign Affairs
Time to Update the Nobels
Brian Keeating Aeon
In Praise of Public Libraries
Sue Halpern New York Review of Books
Ian McEwan on His “Anti-Frankenstein Novel”
Helen Lewis New Statesman
The Life and Legend of Mr. Cub
Richard Babcock Wall Street Journal


Thursday, April 25
The Wonder of Robert Caro
Ruth Scurr Times Literary Supplement
The Destroyer Deserves a Special Place in Naval History
Walter R. Borneman WSJ
Lenin's Rise to Socialist Power
Joshua Muravchik Encounter Books
The Disinvitation of Ryszard Legutko
Rod Dreher The American Conservative
The Tears of Quasimodo
Paul Berman Tablet Magazine
Dialectics of Enlightenment
Kwame Anthony Appia New York Review of Books
George Faludy: Hungarian Poet and Hero for Our Times
Robin Ashenden Quillette
One Who Fought Back: Grynszpan and the Holocaust
Rick Richman Mosaic
The Peculiar Institution and the Supreme Court
Joyce Lee Malcolm Law & Liberty
Mental Illness Is All in Your Brain, Or Is It?
Jennifer Szalai New York Times
Poetry in the Press Box
James Parker The Atlantic


Friday, April 26
How Religious Cults Made America
Tom Bissell New Yorker
It All Started With a Mouse
Michael Taube Claremont Review of Books
Kidnapping is a Very Efficient Business
Anne Diebel New York Review of Books
The Problem With High-Minded Politics
Sean Wilentz The Atlantic
On Unity and Morale with Charles Martel
Matthew Robare University Bookman
Dismantling the Myth of 'The Heartland'
Meghan O'gieblyn New York Times
The View From the Middle of America
Andrew R. Graybill WSJ
Democracy's Midlife Crisis
Jan-Werner Müller The Nation
A World Safe for Capital
Stephen Wertheim Foreign Affairs
What Does the Word 'Liberal' Mean?
Nathan W. Schlueter Law & Liberty
Timely Return to Battle for a Veteran of the Culture Wars
Sumantra Maitra Quillette
Taking a 'Deep-Time' View of Our Planet
Robert Macfarlane The Guardian
We Give Mice Ethical Protections-So Why Not AIs?
Eric Schwitzgebel & John Basl Aeon
How Hollywood's Obession with Morality Inspired Genius
Tim Stanley History Today
Five Best: Lisa Gornick on Freud in Fiction
Lisa Gornick Wall Street Journal
A Letter to Mama
Isaac Bashevis Singer Jewish Review of Books
Monday, April 29
Churchill's Debt to Burke
Andrew Roberts New Criterion
The Rise of Equality Chic
Barton Swaim Wall Street Journal
America's Messiah Complex
Colin Dickey The New Republic
Debunking Myths about the Midwest
Bradley Babendir NPR
God Save Us from Søren Kierkegaard
Michael Tanner The Spectator
Correcting Our View of Montesquieu
Will Selinger Law & Liberty
A People's Contest
Michael Burlingame Claremont Review of Books
Bret Easton Ellis' Book is 'Just Plain Bad'
Joseph Bottom Washington Free Beacon
Audible's Assault on Leisure Time
Nora Caplan-Bricker The Baffler
Les Murray, Poet and 'Gentle Titan of Australian Letters', Dies
The Guardian


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