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What realists like Emma Ashford deride as America’s “reactionary defence of the status quo” is in fact a prudent effort to preserve a world order of unparalleled value.
A new book presents a cogent diagnosis of the ills plaguing American society, but also reactionary prescriptions for ameliorating them.
Garrett Graff’s new book provides the story of America’s quest for the bomb with a valuable human quality without sacrificing the epic sweep.
If leading media critics don’t expect much, filmmakers won’t deliver much.
‘The Technological Republic’ is a searching indictment of a culture that has lost sight of its metaphysical horizons and now seeks an escape from history.
Ian Penman has published an eccentric new book about Erik Satie, a French surrealist composer and celebratory nuisance with a tiny oeuvre and massive influence.
A riveting new book by American historian Lynne Olson re-examines the story of Ravensbrück, the Nazis’ notorious concentration camp for women.
Matthew Gasda’s new novel unfolds in a haze of empty dialogue and overwrought introspection.
A new collection of Murray Kempton’s articles reveals a thoughtful journalist whose politics were difficult to categorise.
Biden’s re-election campaign was a grand exercise in hubris, which led to the very outcome it was intended to prevent.
A valuable new collection of wartime letters written by Leslie Fiedler shows how politically astute the budding literary critic was about communism.
The first and largest mistake Douthat makes in his new book is to argue that faith and rationality are mutually supportive.
An insider’s naive and myopic account of China’s system and intentions.
Those who ignore politically inconvenient information about affirmative action are more interested in defending a narrative than in actually solving a problem.
Many of the people involved in Uberto Pasolini’s new screen adaptation of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ are intimidatingly talented. It’s a pity, then, that the film is such a disaster.