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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
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