Week of May 6, 2019 Archives

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Monday, May 6
Camille Paglia Can't Say That
Conor Friedersdorf The Atlantic
Bigotry and Bad Science
Stephen Budiansky Wall Street Journal
Why Terrorists Embraced Suicide Bombing
Anthony Loyd New Statesman
Can Humanitarianism Address Inequality?
Bruce Robbins The Nation
Satirizing the Global Society
Louis Amis The Spectator
Big Business Isn't Big Politics
Tyler Cowen Foreign Policy
33 Days and Four Years
Catherine C. Bock-Weiss Jewish Review of Books
The Life Behind the Lord of the Rings
Hannah Long Arc Digital
What Happened to Harper Lee's True Crime Book?
Alexandra Alter New York Times
Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction
Mairead Small Staid The Paris Review


Tuesday, May 7
The Five Best Tales of Lust
Tunku Varadarajan Wall Street Journal
No Mere Textbook
Bruce Frohnen University Bookman
The Case for Nabokov
Cathy Young Quillette
Gabriel Garci­a Marquez, Journalist?
Dwight Garner New York Times
How Lyme Became the First Epidemic of Climate Change
Mary Beth Pfeiffer Aeon
Resistance to Immunity
Gavin Francis New York Review of Books
Counterculturalism Rightly Understood
Paul Seaton Law & Liberty
The Philosophical Currents That Shaped Our Nation
John Kaag The American Scholar
What It Means To Be Human
Marcelo Gleiser NPR
Cities As Labor Markets
Nolan Gray City Journal
Down and Out in the Gig Economy
Jacob Silverman The New Republic


Thursday, May 9
Book Recommendations from Adm. William H. McRaven
New York Times
What the Ancient Greeks Teach Us
Emily Wilson New Statesman
One of Literature's Most Beautiful Collections
Amos Reichman Literary Hub
The Peculiar Blindness of Experts
David Epstein The Atlantic
Is Demography Destiny?
Scott McConnell The American Conservative
Why We Should Read Heidegger
Matt McManus Quillette
When the Black Panthers Came to Algeria
Elias Rodriques The Nation
San Francisco's Plague Years
Julia Flynn Siler Wall Street Journal
Amy Chua on the Tribal Nature of American Politics
Shadi Hamid Arc Digital
Empire in Denial
Simon Waxman The Baffler
Russell Kirk, a Conservative Guide for Our Times
Matthew Continetti National Review
Can the Jews Find a Home in China?
Noah Lachs Times Literary Supplement


Friday, May 10
David McCullough on Early Midwestern Pioneers
Maddie Burakoff Smithsonian
Manifesto of a Polite Trumpist
Emmanuel Todd City Journal
Tucker's Right
Michael Anton Claremont Review of Books
The Emptiness of Adam Gopnik's Liberalism
David Sessions The New Republic
How Bernie Became Bernie
Matthew Karp The Nation
The Communitarian Revival
John R. Wood Jr. Quillette
Why Dinosaurs No Longer Drag Their Tails
John Steele Gordon Wall Street Journal
Norsemen of the Apocalypse
Daniel Johnson Standpoint
Descartes Ruined Our Mental Health
James Barnes Aeon
How Big Tech Threatens Economic Liberty
Hal Singer The American Conservative
Israel's Multiple Identities
David Patrikarakos The American Interest
Absorbing Life of a Deeply Flawed Diplomat
David M. Shribman Boston Globe
Dr. Seuss Was A Complicated Icon
Gabino Iglesias NPR
The True-Crime Story That Harper Lee Tried and Failed to Write
Michael Lewis NYT
'Cancel Me': An Interview with Bret Easton Ellis
Sam Leith The Spectator


Monday, May 13
It's Never Too Late to Start a Brilliant Career
Rich Karlgaard Wall Street Journal
Brexit Isn't a New Idea, Just Ask Dickens
Erica Wickerson The Independent
Einstein Was Baffled by His Own Popularity
Simon Ings The Spectator
The Unfinished Story of a First Folio
Michael Caines Times Literary Supplement
How the Genocidal Successor to al Qaeda Persists
Joshua Sinai Washington Times
Reclaiming Our Lost Republic
Tim Rice City Journal
Reading the Gaelic
Stephen Schmalhofer New Criterion
The Tolkien Story That Makes the Case for Fantasy
Yosef Lindell The Atlantic
Ben Hecht's Remarkable Speech at Slapsy Maxie’s
Stuart Schoffman JRB
Finding the Off Switch
Sophie McBain New Statesman


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