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November 2009
Laura Vanderkam
You Say Potato, I’ll Say Potato | How social networks influence our behavior and outlook
18 November 2009
Daniel J. Flynn
Neither God nor Devil | Two new biographies show Ayn Rand in all of her complexity.
11 November 2009
October 2009
Jacob Laksin
The Crescent and the Continent | Christopher Caldwell explores how Islamic immigration has transformed Europe.
30 October 2009
Adam D. Thierer
Plato Wrote It Down | Dennis Baron unrolls the long history of techno-skepticism.
23 October 2009
Guy Sorman
How to Liberate an Economy | Entrepreneurs understand the importance of freedom in the workplace.
21 October 2009
Mark Riebling
Conservatism Turned Upside Down | Sam Tanenhaus’s critique of conservative reason
16 October 2009
Adam Fleisher
A Cautionary Tale | Alan Beattie’s sobering history of government-directed economics
9 October 2009
September 2009
Dane Stangler
A Critique of Pure Financial Reason | Did Efficient Market Hypothesis destroy the economy?
25 September 2009
Fred Siegel
The Romance of Evil | A new film tells the disturbing story of the Baader-Meinhof gang—but overlooks some key points.
18 September 2009
Nicole Gelinas
Global Warning | Iceland’s failed banks offer the West a lesson.
17 September 2009
Adam Kirsch
Justice and Its Critics | Two new books take fresh looks at John Rawls’s magnum opus.
11 September 2009
James Panero
All My Sons | Two memoirs of William F. Buckley outline his towering shadow.
4 September 2009
August 2009
Sol Stern
The Promise Land | George Gilder celebrates the civilizational achievements of the Jewish state.
28 August 2009
Stefan Kanfer
Memo to the Führer | A report on Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds
25 August 2009
Laura Vanderkam
This Won’t Cost a Bit | Chris Anderson explores the paradoxes of getting something for nothing.
21 August 2009
July 2009
Howard Husock
Jane Jacobs’s Legacy | Her once-controversial vision of the vitality of neighborhood life—including that of the slums—has enjoyed posthumous success.
31 July 2009
Fred Siegel
Tory in America | A timely reissue of the great essayist Henry Fairlie’s work
24 July 2009
Theodore Dalrymple
Modernists in Medieval Clothing | Kenan Malik traces Islamic terror to twentieth-century influences.
16 July 2009
Laura Vanderkam
Day-Share Dads | Jeremy Adam Smith’s new book describes the emerging culture of stay-at-home fathers.
10 July 2009
June 2009
Stefan Kanfer
Autism, Non-Hollywood Version | Karl Greenfeld’s painful, eloquent memoir lays bare the disease’s toll.
26 June 2009
Jacob Laksin
A Study in Defeat | Bruce Bawer calls out Western apologists for radical Islam.
26 June 2009
Liam Julian
The Private Schools No One Sees | In the world’s slums, the poor have taken to educating themselves.
19 June 2009
Heather Mac Donald
Obscure Treasures at the Brooklyn Museum | Go see the museum’s Caillebotte exhibit—and keep an eye out for a Boldini.
17 June 2009
Guy Sorman
Rationing Happiness | Robert Frank makes the behaviorist case for less economic competition—and higher taxes.
12 June 2009
Bruce S. Thornton
Dupes | Jamie Glazov exposes the Left’s long history of cozying up to political murderers.
5 June 2009
May 2009
Jacob Laksin
Rebels to the Death | A definitive, updated history of West Germany’s depraved Baader-Meinhof terrorists
29 May 2009
Benjamin A. Plotinsky
That Jewish Novel | Gertrude Himmelfarb explores the rocky terrain around Daniel Deronda.
22 May 2009
Guy Sorman
The Rational Crisis | Richard Posner takes on the financial meltdown.
15 May 2009
Heather Mac Donald
Royal Heartbreak | A new production of Ionesco’s Exit the King amplifies life’s mysteries.
11 May 2009
Guy Sorman
The Behaviorists’ Hour | George Akerlof and Robert Shiller propose an alternative to classic free-market economic theory.
8 May 2009
Michael Weiss
Kings of Prime Time | NBC takes a few pages out of the Bible.
8 May 2009
Jack Wade Nowlin
Smorgas-Bork | A delectable sampler of the great jurist’s writings and arguments
1 May 2009
April 2009
Theodore Dalrymple
Between Experience and Reflection | Paul Hollander anatomizes ideology, evil, and human contradiction.
27 April 2009
Anthony Paletta
Ideology My Teacher Taught Me | David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin profile political indoctrination in academic departments.
17 April 2009
Guy Sorman
Thanks But No Thanks | African economist Dambisa Moyo calls for a halt to Western aid.
10 April 2009
James Kirchick
Tough Love | Bronwen Maddox makes the case against Anti-Americanism.
3 April 2009
March 2009
John M. Murtagh
Tanned, Rested, and Unrepentant | Ex-Weatherman Mark Rudd sets out to promote his self-serving memoir.
27 March 2009
Heather Mac Donald
A Gift and a Travesty | Two Met productions show how to do opera—and how to mangle it.
20 March 2009
Gerald J. Russello
Takings Issue | Richard Epstein calls for a return to sanity in property law.
20 March 2009
Guy Sorman
China’s Dubious “Miracle” | Behind the statistics of economic prosperity, a nation divided and tormented.
13 March 2009
Charles Upton Sahm
Why KIPP Schools Work | Jay Mathews shows how they’re revolutionizing education in America.
13 March 2009
Adam Kirsch
Intellectuals at the Gates | Some revolutions fail when the enlightened misread the national mood.
6 March 2009
February 2009
Michael Weiss
Little Englanders | Morrissey and Philip Larkin, morose brothers
27 February 2009
Anthony Paletta
The New Che, Same as the Old | Steven Soderbergh’s biopic continues Hollywood’s worship of a brutal man.
27 February 2009
Dane Stangler
Prophet Motive | Bill Gates’s vision of “creative capitalism”
20 February 2009
Sol Stern
Catholic-School Closing Tragedy | Patrick J. McCloskey reminds us about what we’re losing.
13 February 2009
John H. McWhorter
Dead End | Hubert Harrison’s militant, unproductive racial politics
6 February 2009
January 2009
James Panero
Evolution for Art’s Sake | Denis Dutton’s Darwinian aesthetics
30 January 2009
Andrew Klavan
Escape from L.A. | Roger L. Simon’s political journey
28 January 2009
Jack Wade Nowlin
The Power and the Duty | A history of Anglo-American judging recovers the true origins of judicial review.
27 January 2009
Edward Feser
Purely Academic | Stanley Fish wants professors to quit the agitprop and stick to the facts.
23 January 2009
Brendan Boyle
Middlebrow Messiahs | Alex Beam’s engaging new history of the Great Books
16 January 2009
Kay S. Hymowitz
The Children’s Hour | Can Geoffrey Canada’s brilliant education experiment in Harlem be extended nationally?
14 January 2009
Michael Knox Beran
Dukedom Large Enough | What Jefferson’s library reveals about America’s best-known bookworm
9 January 2009
William Anthony Hay
Napoleon’s Europe | How the French emperor shaped the future of a continent
9 January 2009
December 2008
Dane Stangler
Escape from the Price Spiral | Robert Samuelson’s history of postwar inflation belongs on Obama’s bookshelf.
31 December 2008
Adam Kirsch
Red Plunder | Sean McMeekin details the staggering thievery of Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
24 December 2008
Daniel J. Flynn
The Right Gifts | A new history of conservative philanthropy offers a timely message.
12 December 2008
November 2008
Laura Vanderkam
All You Need Is Help | Are geniuses born or made? Both, says Malcolm Gladwell.
26 November 2008
Jacob Laksin
Scenes from a Carnage | A New York Times war correspondent chronicles how Iraq came undone.
21 November 2008
Joanne Jacobs
Nagging for Success | Inner-city schools embrace a “new paternalism”—with encouraging results.
20 November 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
Slouching Toward Fanaticism | Passionate intensity, but little rationality, in the anti-immunization movement
14 November 2008
October 2008
Stefan Kanfer
The Nimble Tread of the Feet of Fred | Joseph Epstein’s biography examines the Astaire magic.
31 October 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
Careful What You Wish For | Two novelists portray the allure—and limitations—of liberation.
24 October 2008
Fred Siegel
Family Ties | Bernard-Henri Lévy explains his enduring, if troubled, relationship with the Left.
22 October 2008
Adam Kirsch
The Roar of Justice | Philosopher Raymond Geuss, an idealist in realist’s clothing
17 October 2008
Daniel J. Flynn
Obama: The Oak Grown from Acorn | The radical group is front and center when it comes to voter fraud.
16 October 2008
Paul Beston
Who Do You Like? | McCain and Obama, under Frontline’s lens.
14 October 2008
Adam D. Thierer
Understanding Our Digital Kids | A new book offers a guide for mentoring the children of the Web.
10 October 2008
Laura Vanderkam
Soft Targets | The data miners are watching, but they don’t always see us clearly.
10 October 2008
Harry Stein
All Hammer, No Nail | Though brave, An American Carol is more polemic than entertainment.
9 October 2008
Jacob Laksin
New Dawn | A counterinsurgency veteran reveals how the U.S. turned the tide in Iraq.
3 October 2008
September 2008
Stefan Kanfer
Self-Murder Mystery | Christopher Lukas’s harrowing memoir describes a family heritage of destruction.
26 September 2008
Adam D. Thierer
The Internet Isn’t Dying | On the contrary, the Web is just catching its second wind.
19 September 2008
Bruce S. Thornton
No We Can’t | For over a generation, the Democratic Party’s left wing has been determined to lose America’s wars.
12 September 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Driving Lessons | Honk if you want to know just how complicated automobile safety is.
5 September 2008
August 2008
Leslie S. Lebl
Tale of a German Sheikh | France’s novel of the moment links Islamism to Nazism.
22 August 2008
Jacob Laksin
In Sight, Out of Mind | Andrew McCarthy chronicles government bungling prior to the first World Trade Center attack.
15 August 2008
Bruce S. Thornton
Islam Without Apologetics | Andrew Bostom documents the long history of Muslim anti-Semitism.
8 August 2008
James Kirchick
History’s Comeback | According to Robert Kagan, the world is back to normal.
1 August 2008
July 2008
Daniel J. Mahoney
With All His Might | Winston Churchill did save the West, John Lukacs shows.
25 July 2008
Fred Siegel
What Might Have Been | Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich were making progress on entitlement reform, until . . .
18 July 2008
Laura Vanderkam
Still Made for You and Me | If America is so bad, why is Barbara Ehrenreich so successful?
16 July 2008
Tim Connors
Counterterrorist Tales | Michael Sheehan remembers 30 years of fighting bad guys.
11 July 2008
James Kirchick
Communist Loser | Eric Hobsbawm, revisionist
9 July 2008
Paul Beston
John Adams Survives | His famous last words may be a myth, but the nation he helped found is a triumphant reality.
3 July 2008
June 2008
Bruce S. Thornton
Religion and the Age | George Weigel gives Christian answers to the West’s most pressing questions.
27 June 2008
Stefan Kanfer
For Whom the Joke Tolls | Jim Holt’s compendium collects some pretty good ones.
25 June 2008
John Robb
Fear Factor | Surviving a disaster often depends on self-control.
21 June 2008
Laura Vanderkam
Choosing Wisely | Can “libertarian paternalism” make the world a better place?
11 June 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Stock Characters | Two centuries’ worth of Wall Street highs and lows
6 June 2008
Paul Beston
The Emerging Reagan Consensus | The 40th president’s place in history seems assured.
4 June 2008
May 2008
Benjamin A. Plotinsky
Devil’s Bargain | Rob Riemen exposes, and yet also exemplifies, sophisticated irrationalism.
30 May 2008
Kay S. Hymowitz
Sex on a Sugar High | The Sex and the City movie, sweeter than its TV inspiration
28 May 2008
Michael Knox Beran
Mastery, Not Drift | William F. Buckley’s final book is faithful to his earliest inspirations.
23 May 2008
Michael J. Totten
The Real Iraq | Michael Yon sees the country, and the war, without ideological blinders.
16 May 2008
Gerald J. Russello
Unfinished Legal Business | Conservative public-interest law awaits a third generation of scholars.
9 May 2008
James Kirchick
Choosing the Whip | Heidi Holland explores the complex psychology of Robert Mugabe.
7 May 2008
Stefan Kanfer
Pyrrhic Victory | A new comic-book history chronicles a war between good taste and free expression.
2 May 2008
April 2008
Guy Sorman
Asia Rises, Unevenly | Bill Emmott describes the continent’s opportunities and obstacles.
30 April 2008
Daniel J. Flynn
Innocent Nevermore | Carl Oglesby was disillusioned first by America, then by the New Left.
25 April 2008
Peter Lawler
A Human Person, Actually | A powerful philosophical case for protecting embryos
18 April 2008
Brian C. Anderson
Dead Zone of the Human Spirit | Martin Amis looks unflinchingly at Islamic terror.
18 April 2008
Catesby Leigh
New Urbanists Point the Way Forward | But is anyone listening?
18 April 2008
Stefan Kanfer
Larger Than Life | Richard Widmark and Charlton Heston, R. I. P.
10 April 2008
Fred Siegel
Audacity’s Children | The American Left has a long history of utopianism.
4 April 2008
James Kirchick
The Passivist | Matthew Yglesias proves that doves, too, bury their heads in the sand.
3 April 2008
March 2008
Steven Malanga
Who’s Your Economist? | Richard Florida and his “creative class” are at it again.
28 March 2008
John H. McWhorter
Looking Past Race | Too many blacks are obsessed with racism, says Larry Elder.
26 March 2008
Paul Beston
After Tyson, the Desert | Boxing’s decline began the night Buster Douglas beat Mike Tyson, says Joe Layden.
21 March 2008
Heather Mac Donald
Beauty, While Supplies Last | New York City Opera’s delightful Falstaff is the kind of production that may soon be hard to find.
21 March 2008
Stefan Kanfer
History for Losers | Nicholson Baker’s objectively fascist new book doesn’t even rise to the level of polemic.
14 March 2008
Bezalel Stern
Home Away from Home | Bernhard Schlink’s latest novel raises provocative questions of justice and evil.
7 March 2008
February 2008
Ibn Warraq
The Pious Fraud | Tariq Ramadan, Islamist and equivocator
29 February 2008
Edward Short
Hotel Americana | From early in the nation’s history, hotels were part of its fabric.
22 February 2008
Steven Malanga
Dark Underbelly | Chris Burgard’s new documentary is a harrowing picture of illegal immigration in America.
20 February 2008
Charles Siegel
The Architect’s New Clothes | John Silber exposes the pretensions of celebrity “starchitects.”
15 February 2008
Daniel J. Mahoney
Whom Should We Admire? | Paul Johnson surveys heroes from literature, history, and politics.
13 February 2008
John H. McWhorter
Party of Chains | The greatest oppressors of blacks have been Democrats, says Bruce Bartlett.
8 February 2008
Jacob Laksin
Not Dead Yet | Bruce Thornton warns of Europe’s potential demise.
6 February 2008
Paul Beston
Comrades in Arms | The alliance between Reagan and Thatcher was even stronger than it looked—especially when they disagreed.
1 February 2008
January 2008
Christopher D. Geisel
Yes, It Is About Religion | George Weigel rejects secularized analysis of the War on Terror.
30 January 2008
Guy Sorman
Decline and Fall | Yegor Gaidar on Russia’s post-imperial syndrome
25 January 2008
Bruce S. Thornton
Twilight of the Nation-State | European transnationalism is a utopian dream, Pierre Manent warns.
18 January 2008
Jerry Weinberger
Rebels with Causes | Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Paine, and two modern revolutions
18 January 2008
Roger Kimball
Architecture’s Rogues’ Gallery | Two new books celebrate the trendy, ephemeral—and contemptuous.
11 January 2008
Phyllis Chesler
Brave Partisan | The many lives of Edith Kurzweil
9 January 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Intellectual’s Survival Guide | Cass Sunstein wants us to reconsider how we assess the risk of catastrophes.
4 January 2008
December 2007
Steven Malanga
The Blue-Collar Bard in Winter | Richard Russo’s new novel explores familiar terrain, but with a more wistful tone.
21 December 2007
Paul Beston
Obama’s Gordian Knot | The candidate’s politics are entangled in racial contradiction, says Shelby Steele.
14 December 2007
November 2007
Michael Knox Beran
Appetite for Destruction | Peter Gay’s history of modernism
30 November 2007
Phyllis Chesler
Beauty in a Cursed Land | Rosanne Klass’s reissued memoir describes Afghanistan in a more innocent time.
21 November 2007
Edward Short
Sloan Ranger | A new exhibit captures the achievement of American painter John Sloan.
16 November 2007
John H. McWhorter
Hip-Hop Graduates from Thuggery | Kanye West and other “conscious rappers” lead the music in a new direction.
9 November 2007
Stefan Kanfer
Working for Peanuts | For Charles M. Schulz, art imitated life.
2 November 2007
October 2007
Kay S. Hymowitz
Psychoanalyzing the Victim | September 11 spawned neurotic American chauvinism, claims Susan Faludi.
26 October 2007
Fred Siegel
Anti- and Anti-Anti-Islamists | The West and the challenge of Islamic fanaticism
19 October 2007
Jacob Laksin
Dissenter Inside the Tower | Yale professor Anthony Kronman laments the politicization of the humanities.
12 October 2007
Mark Riebling
Litany of Blunders | Tim Weiner’s CIA history lifts the cover on a half century of intrigue.
5 October 2007
September 2007
Harry Stein
Take No Prisoners | For Bob Shrum, politics is war, and anything goes.
28 September 2007
James Kirchick
Bay State Blues | What’s the matter with Massachusetts?
26 September 2007
Harry Stein
The Kingdom Gets the War on Terror Right | Peter Berg’s new film dares to portray Americans as the good guys.
21 September 2007
Steven Malanga
Life Lessons at Meerkat Manor | The Animal Planet series has something to say to humans, too.
14 September 2007
Sol Stern
Old-School Idealist | Albert Shanker nobly led a teachers’ union that eventually became part of the problem.
7 September 2007
August 2007
Steven Malanga
He Held Good Taste to Be Self-Evident | Thomas Jefferson was America’s first great wine expert.
31 August 2007
Guy Sorman
The Market Revolution | A new history provides an encyclopedic overview of the Chicago School of Economics.
24 August 2007
Bruce S. Thornton
Golden Threads | Former Muslim Ibn Warraq stands up for the West.
17 August 2007
Fred Siegel
The Againstocrats | An inside look at the unideological ideologues of today’s Left
10 August 2007
Harry Stein
Gore Imbalanced | The former vice president’s new book is itself an assault on reason.
3 August 2007
July 2007
Benjamin A. Plotinsky
Do We Do As the Romans Did? | Yes and no, of course.
24 July 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
Thanks for the Immunity | Maurice Hilleman was one of the twentieth century’s unsung heroes.
20 July 2007
Heather Mac Donald
Animating Ourselves | Lifted, a delightful contribution to our cartoon canon
16 July 2007
Paul Howard
Paint-By-Numbers Medicine | Jerome Groopman’s sobering portrait of doctors and diagnoses
9 July 2007
Daniel J. Mahoney
Living in Truth | A wise, quirky memoir from Václav Havel
6 July 2007
June 2007
David Gratzer
Simplisticko | Michael Moore’s new documentary is an uninformed caricature.
29 June 2007
John H. McWhorter
All Over the Field | Dave Zirin’s new “sports” book tells us more about the author than anything else.
28 June 2007
Paul Hollander
Iron Curtain Lady | For Christa Wolf, the socialist dream still flickers.
25 June 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
Breaking Away | An ex-Islamist tells his story.
19 June 2007
Nicole Gelinas
Shop ’Til You Drop | Benjamin Barber, consumed by his own book
18 June 2007
Heather Mac Donald
Cheers—and Loathing—at the Metropolitan Opera | Which will win out: glorious triumphs or trendy travesties?
14 June 2007
Fred Siegel
A Rising Tide Heals All Rifts? | For Brink Lindsey, affluence is a uniter, not a divider.
8 June 2007
Gerry Garibaldi
Boys Will Be Boys | A new guidebook reaffirms boyhood in all of its politically incorrect glory.
1 June 2007
May 2007
Glenn Reynolds
Open Source Warfare | John Robb’s chilling brief on postmodern terrorism
23 May 2007
Steven Malanga
A Mormon in the White House? | Hugh Hewitt says that Mitt Romney’s the man for the job.
11 May 2007
April 2007
Paul Beston
Freedom Fighters | Brian Doherty’s comprehensive guide to American libertarianism
20 April 2007
Fred Siegel
Subtraction by Subtraction | Modernist architecture has failed American cities.
13 April 2007
Steven Malanga
Unglamorous Mobsters | As a 1988 HBO documentary reveals, the real Sopranos were brutal—and banal.
4 April 2007
Kay S. Hymowitz
The Brooklyn Museum Strikes Again | Confusing hucksterism and art
3 April 2007
March 2007
Nicole Gelinas
The Foundations That Wouldn’t Die | What Bill Gates can learn from Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon
30 March 2007
Douglas Murray
High Infidelity | Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s brave memoir
28 March 2007
Harry Stein
The Range of Pistol Pete | Pete Maravich’s influence on basketball is still alive today.
9 March 2007
Victor Davis Hanson
With Your Shield or On It | Zack Snyder’s 300: a spirited take on a clash of civilizations
7 March 2007
Katherine Ernst
Was Reagan a Liberal? | Yes, according to a new biography.
2 March 2007
February 2007
John Kekes
Words to Die By | A new series resurrects some of history’s bloodiest manifestos.
20 February 2007
Steven Malanga
Parenting vs. Poverty | It wasn’t government programs that saved NFL-bound Michael Oher.
10 February 2007
Benjamin A. Plotinsky
The Fanatical Philosopher | Michel Onfray’s weak case against monotheism
1 February 2007
January 2007
Stefan Kanfer
Four Stars for 24 | TV’s hottest thriller returns, as politically incorrect as ever.
23 January 2007
Howard Husock
The Compassion Gap | Conservatives give more to charities than liberals do—by a long shot.
18 January 2007
December 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Fear of the Invisible | Epidemiologist John Snow made cities safer.
7 December 2006
November 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
A Man Out of Time | A life of poet R. S. Thomas entertains and illumines.
6 November 2006
October 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
The Avant-Garde of the Apocalypse | The Dutch and their Muslims
25 October 2006
September 2006
Howard Husock
Liberal Blinders | The author of a new book on public housing ignores his own evidence.
8 September 2006
June 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
All or Nothing | The quest for a moderate Islam may be futile.
4 June 2006
May 2006
Charles Upton Sahm
Trashing Giuliani | A silly documentary tries—and fails—to tar the record of America’s Mayor.
12 May 2006
Kay S. Hymowitz
The Mommy-Wars Insurgency | Essayist Caitlin Flanagan has enraged the feminists.
9 May 2006
April 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
The Murderer Next Door | The limits of sociobiology
24 April 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Greek or Turk? | Bruce Clark’s exploration of a conflicted history raises profound questions of politics and national identity.
4 April 2006
March 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Why New Vaccines Are Scarce | Blame the tort lawyers, argues Paul Offit’s important new book.
6 March 2006
February 2006
Katherine Ernst
Lefty Profs Exposed | David Horowitz’s The Professors profiles academe’s tenured radicals.
21 February 2006
January 2006
Howard Husock
Why Hollywood Loves Johnny Cash—and not Merle Haggard | It’s the Man in Black’s politics
13 January 2006
Stefan Kanfer
Spielberg’s Mendacious Munich | The film can’t distinguish justice from revenge.
10 January 2006
