The Dead Are Rising—A Review
The Dead are Arising offers similarly interesting insights into Malcolm X’s adolescence and adult life.
Clayton Trutor
· 7 min read
book review
A collection of 47 posts
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism—A Review
Feudal societies were hierarchical, with clearly-defined roles and responsibilities for everyone. The knights fought for all, the priests prayed for all, and the peasants worked for all.
Adam Wakeling
· 11 min read
The War of Return—A Review
The War of Return is an important book and, unquestionably, a welcome corrective to the plethora of myths, lies, and misconceptions that litter the discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Benjamin Kerstein
· 19 min read
Easy Rider: 50 Years Looking for America—A Review
Easy Rider is an important movie—much more important than a simple measure of its quality would suggest—which is probably why the American Film Institute, among others, continues to rate it so highly.
Graham Daseler
· 14 min read
Woody Allen's 'Apropos of Nothing'—A Review
He cannot help being true to himself. In this calm, blithe, and objective memoir, Allen emerges, at wild odds with his comedic persona, as a very tough, independent artist, a passionate lover of women, avowing his innocence of the one and only charge ever leveled against him in 84 years.
David Evanier
· 12 min read
Farewell, My Lovely
Chinatown is a remarkable blend of screenwriter Robert Towne and director Roman Polanski’s antipodal sensibilities.
Graham Daseler
· 14 min read
‘10% Less Democracy’—A Review
Books like 10% Less Democracy help us consider what republican solutions might look like today.
Adam Wakeling
· 10 min read
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family—A Review
Full Surrogacy Now makes a feminist argument for, as the author puts it, “abolishing the family” by no longer attaching any importance to biological relationships between people.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read
'Against Democracy'—A Review
Against Democracy is an interesting and engaging read.
Adam Wakeling
· 15 min read
The Knowledge Gap—A Review
This is a dimension where knowledge of the world—that same prior knowledge that needs activating—is the last thing that it would occur to anyone to actually teach children in schools.
Greg Ashman
· 7 min read
The Hell of Good Intentions—A Review
Walt is always thinking of ways to blame the most vexing international problems on liberal hegemony. From proliferation to terrorism to Trump, he sees its malignant influence everywhere he looks.
Matt Johnson
· 14 min read
Superior: The Return of Race Science—A Review
It is reasonably entertaining to read, and does make some valid points about the misuse of “race science.” Unfortunately, it is also tendentious, dogmatic, and seriously misleading about the current state of scientific knowledge.
Bo Winegard, Noah Carl
· 21 min read
Why We Should Read Machiavelli
Machiavelli focused his analysis of power not on ideals, but on the feasible. In affairs of state, virtue was a matter of efficacy, not piety.
Jonathan Church
· 8 min read
Timely Return to Battle for a Veteran of the Culture Wars
While Hanson is good in setting out the causes of Trump’s victory, he falls short when it comes to making recommendations for the future.
Sumantra Maitra
· 7 min read
George Faludy: Hungarian Poet and Hero for Our Times
Faludy’s greatest weapon—what really allows him to swat away the mosquitoes of passing ideologies—is his delight in sensual pleasures.
Robin Ashenden
· 6 min read