The Liberal Internationalist A fine new book argues that the contemporary Left could learn a lot from the life and work of the late polemicist Christopher Hitchens. Michael J. Totten 20 Feb 2023 · 18 min read
America’s Forgotten Crisis A terrific new account of America’s social and political turmoil during the 1910s and ’20s provides some much-needed perspective on the problems afflicting the country today. Michael J. Totten 17 Dec 2022 · 13 min read
Hofstadter’s Paranoid Style Revisited Hofstadter argued that McCarthyism was simply the latest iteration of a longstanding American tradition. Michael J. Totten 16 May 2022 · 9 min read
Ukraine: On the Fault Line Between East and West MSNBC’s Joy Reid thinks the West’s galvanizing response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is unfair. “Let’s face it,” she said [https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/03/08/joy_reid_lets_face_it_the_world_is_paying_attention_to_russia-ukraine_conflict_because_theyre_white_and_christian. Michael J. Totten 14 Mar 2022 · 10 min read
'The Report' Review—A Careful Examination of the CIA's Interrogation Methods Michael J. Totten 9 Jan 2020 · 10 min read