Week of May 13, 2019 Archives

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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


Tuesday, May 14
Was Shakespeare a Woman? Of Course He Was
Dominic Green The Spectator
Michael Ondaatje's 6 Favorite Books about War
Michael Ondaatje The Week
Navigating America's Outrage Culture
Max Diamond RealClearBooks
Books to Understand the Measles Epidemic
Abigail Zuger New York Times
How Belief Became an Opinion
Tom Holland History Today
William Shakespeare Was Emilia Bassano
Elizabeth Winkler The Atlantic
Who Killed Dick and Jane?
Meghan Cox Gordon Wall Street Journal
America’s Obsession with Beef Was Born of Conquest
Samuel Moyn TNR
De Gaulle, Re-Founder of French Republicanism
Will Morrissey Law & Liberty
The Koran and Jihad
David P. Goldman Claremont Review of Books
Crimes in Concrete
Theodore Dalrymple First Things


Wednesday, May 15
Giving Up Darwin
David Gelernter Claremont Review of Books
Sacrifices at Modernity's Altar
Dominic Green Wall Street Journal
The Fight to Publish Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl'
Alexander Adams Spiked
What Sparks Lightning Remains a Mystery
Sidney Perkowitz Aeon
Will the Civilizations Clash?
Ross Terrill Athenaeum Review
Justice John Paul Stevens Looks Back
Emily Bazelon New York Times
Educating Wise Statesmen
Christopher Fisher University Bookman
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Jonathan Powell The Spectator
Susan Sontag Was True Author of Ex-Husband's Book
Allison Flood The Guardian
Friends
Wilfred McClay Hedgehog Review


Thursday, May 16
Even Fantasy Fiction Is Now Offensive
Karen Yossman Spectator
The Problem with Happiness
Gary Saul Morson Athenaeum Review
Five Best: Alexandra Popoff on Russia and the Soviet Union
Alexandra Popoff WSJ
The Truth About Pinocchio's Nose
Anna Kraczyna & John Hooper New York Times
Bring Back Natural Philosophy
Nicholas Maxwell Aeon
Technology That Could End Humanity—and How to Stop It
Klint Finley Wired
Silicon Valley Is Fueled by An Underclass of ‘Ghost Workers’
Angela Chen The Verge
The Hidden Harper Lee
Casey N. Cep The Paris Review
A Gimlet Eye Beneath a Chapel Veil
Eve Tushnet University Bookman
Tripping His Brains Out
Eric Bulson Times Literary Supplement


Friday, May 17
A Refreshing Vision of American History
The Editors RealClearBooks
Susan Sontag Was a Monster
Lauren Elkin Aeon
The Five Best True Crime Books
Jax Miller Five Books
A Kinder, Gentler Gulag
William Voegeli Claremont Review of Books
Truth, Beauty, and Oliver Sacks
Simon Callow New York Review of Books
How Islam shaped the West
Rowan Williams New Statesman
A Philosophical Friendship
Brooke Allen Athenaeum Review
How Andrew Johnson Survived Impeachment
Michael O'Donnell WSJ
The Midwest's Not-So-Hidden History
Stefan Beck National Review
In Search of the Lost Nation
Charles F. McElwee City Journal
In Ants, Edward O. Wilson Finds Hope for the Future
Claudia Dreifus Quanta
Nathan Glazer's Life of the Mind
Alan Wolfe The New Republic
A New Theory on the Voynich Manuscript
Esther Addley The Guardian
Meet the Dealers Who Ignited the Art Market
Matthew Schneier New York Times
Levitating Basketball Players
Simon Kuper The Spectator
The Life And Lasting Work Of Warren Zevon
Gabino Iglesias NPR
Monday, May 20
Reclaiming History From Howard Zinn
Naomi Schaefer Riley Wall Street Journal
The First Presidential Impeachment
Chris Hayes New York Times
How To Think Freely
Jennifer Wilson The Atlantic
Bukovsky's Judgment
Jay Nordlinger National Review
Want to Dismantle Capitalism? Abolish the Family
Rosemarie Ho The Nation
The JFK Conspiracy Conspiracy
Michael Taube Claremont Review of Books
Why We Should Learn to Love Big Business
Steven Malanga City Journal
It's Judo, Not Chess, That's Putin's Game
Alan Judd The Spectator
When Time Became Universal, It Changed History
Paul J. Kosmin Aeon
A Sea Dog Recalls Heroic SEALS Actions
Paul Davis Washington Times


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