Week of September 16, 2019 Archives

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Monday, September 16
Academia's Holy Warriors
Jon Baskin The Chronicle of Higher Education
Computer Pseudoscience
Edward Fraser City Journal
Snowden: "They Wanted Me Gone"
Ewen MacAskill The Guardian
The People's Secret Service
Andrew Lownie Wall Street Journal
Did Social Work Kill Civil Society?
John Hirschauer National Review
The Passion of Bari Weiss
Dominic Green Spectator USA
Heidegger, The Homesick Philosopher
Samuel Earle New Statesman
'Ulysses' on Trial
Michael Chabon The New York Review of Books
How to Succeed in Tennis Without Really Trying
J. Christian Adams RealClearBooks


Tuesday, September 17
Malcolm Gladwell Reaches His Tipping Point
Andrew Ferguson The Atlantic
A Slave to Seriousness
Donna Rifkind Wall Street Journal
The Work of Local Culture
Richard Gamble University Bookman
In Praise of John Ruskin
Michael Crowley Spiked
How the English Language Betrays Class and Power
James Meek The Guardian
What Inspired 'Lolita'?
Jennifer Wilson The Nation
What Made Lucian Freud so Irresistible to Women?
Craig Raine The Spectator
Field Notes on a Beautiful Friendship
T. M. Luhrmann The American Scholar
Bartleby the Safe-Spacer
Colin Fleming The American Interest


Wednesday, September 18
The Communist Plot to Assassinate George Orwell
Duncan White Literary Hub
Five Best Books on Stalin's Great Terror
Owen Matthews Wall Street Journal
The Persistence of the Oldest Hatred
Hillel Halkin The New York Times
Have Americans Become More Conspiratorial?
Sophia Rosenfeld The Nation
How Conservatives Can Come Home
Ted McAllister & Bruce Frohnen University Bookman
Limited Government and the Common Good
Nathan W. Schlueter Law & Liberty
A Dealer Explains the Global Narcotics Scene
Oliver Balch The Spectator
Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography
Janet Malcolm The New Yorker
The Unsinkable Modernist
Maryanne Chaney The New York Review of Books


Thursday, September 19
When Milton Met Shakespeare
Alison Flood The Guardian
A Hero in His Own Mind
Barton Swaim Wall Street Journal
Is Meritocracy Hurting Higher Education?
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Future of Political Philosophy
Katrina Forrester Boston Review
No One Held Susan Sontag in Higher Esteem Than She Did
Philip Hensher Spectator
Advent of the Modern Economy: A Panoramic View
Alberto Mingardi Law & Liberty
The Coming Space War with China
Bill Gertz Encounter Books
Science is Deeply Imaginative
Tom McLeish Aeon
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
Leslie Southwick National Review


Friday, September 20
C. S. Lewis and the Religion of Science
Christopher O. Blum National Review
What the Invisible Hand Can't Grasp
David J. Davis Wall Street Journal
Exploring Roald Dahl's Wondrous Wales
Jennifer Nalewicki Smithsonian
Margaret Atwood's Triumphant Reclaiming of Her Work
Ruth Scurr Spectator USA
Dictators: The Great Performers
Sue Prideaux New Statesman
The German Artist Who Tried to Warn About Hitler
Mary M. Lane Time
What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy
Lincoln Caplan NYT
The American Art of Murder
Algis Valiunas National Affairs
Splitting the Universe
Sean Carroll Aeon
Bad News
Jacob Weisberg Foreign Affairs
Monday, September 23
The Art of Punctuation
Joseph Epstein National Review
Margaret Atwood Is Not Writing about You
Allison Pearson Spectator USA
Irving Kristol, Jewish Realist
Ruth R. Wisse National Affairs
Aristotelian Education is Lifelong
C D C Reeve Aeon
Overrated: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Crispin Sartwell Standpoint
Frank Lloyd Wright Contained Multitudes
Amanda Kolson Hurley The American Scholar
Wendell Berry's Lifelong Dissent
Jedediah Britton-Purdy The Nation
A Furious New Memoir About Cancer
Jennifer Szalai The New York Times


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