At a Time Like This, the West Could Use Its Own Vladimir Voinovich
Voinovich’s legacy has a personal aspect for me.
Cathy Young
· 15 min read
Books
A collection of 274 posts
Lord Over All: Alexander the Great's Conquered World of Priests and Pagans
The poverty of Macedon made incense rarer than in Greece or the Near East, and it also made offerings rarer.
F.S. Naiden
· 14 min read
The Truth According to Social Justice—A Review of 'Cynical Theories'
The book explains a half-century arc of intellectual history culminating in our current state of histrionic overreach in the name of social justice.
Jonathan Church
· 8 min read
Jeffrey Epstein's Money Tainted My Workplace. Then Ronan Farrow's Botched Reporting Trashed My Reputation
The New Yorker story remains an albatross around my neck.
Peter Cohen
· 27 min read
The Room Where It Happened—A Review
Money is a consistently recurring theme. Trump told Bolton at one point that other presidents had not talked about money, but that he liked to do so.
John Lloyd
· 15 min read
Interpreting Italo Svevo—When Literary Orthodoxy Misses The Mark
Marx’s ideas have been debunked by economists; Freud’s ideas have been debunked by psychologists.
Dario Maestripieri
· 11 min read
Bernard Rose's Forgotten Tolstoy Trilogy
This is the least operatic, and most touching, of the trilogy.
Robin Ashenden
· 8 min read
The Libertarian History of Science Fiction
The connection between SF and liberty is not simply an accidental byproduct of the colorful history of SF publishing, but a necessary one tied to certain fundamentals of the genre.
Jordan Alexander Hill
· 15 min read
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
Return to ‘The Unheavenly City’
“This book will probably strike many readers as the work of an ill-tempered and mean-spirited fellow,” Banfield explained, “but facts are facts, however, unpleasant, and they have to be faced unblinkingly by anyone who really wants to improve matters in the cities.”
Craig Trainor
· 12 min read
Barney Rosset and the Unending Struggle to Read Freely
It is by now a familiar truism that the Internet—and social media, in particular—has awarded the intolerant, the narrow-minded, and the censorious unprecedented power. To this challenge from below, publishers have, by and large, responded with dismaying timidity. Large multinational publishing firms have hastily withdrawn controversial titles and
Kevin Mims
· 22 min read
Decadence and Depravity in Louisville, Kentucky
The publication of his electrifying dispatch from the Kentucky Derby on May 2nd, 1970, had announced him as among the most innovative and powerful voices in American letters.
David S. Wills
· 15 min read
Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization—A Review
Gregg finishes the book by concluding that the success of Western civilisation rests on the “four theses” of creation, freedom, justice, and faith.
Adam Wakeling
· 13 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
The Purpose of Imaginative Fiction
“What’s it about?” is usually the first question we ask when someone recommends a new book, and it’s the wrong question.
Elena Shalneva
· 9 min read