War Stories
Yonah Jeremy Bob and Elliot Kaufman’s account of the 7 October massacre and its aftermath is a triumph of dogged reporting and shrewd analysis.
Michael M. Rosen
· 8 min read
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Life in The Grim Old Days
Chelsea Follett's new history shows how wretched life was before the industrial revolution, but our escape from it began long before the steam engine.
Robert Zubrin
· 9 min read
On Trauma-ism
Catherine Liu’s new book makes some valuable points, but it fundamentally misunderstands the trauma culture it critiques.
Marilyn Simon
· 11 min read
Hiroshima: A Hinge Point for Humanity
Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s extraordinary testimony about the Hiroshima attack and its aftermath has been published by his daughter some forty years after his death.
Michael M. Rosen
· 7 min read
I, Victim
Pascal Bruckner’s book about victimhood culture invites us to choose liberation, and to move from resentment to a secular kind of grace.
Marilyn Simon
· 9 min read
This Is the Way the World Ends
Sex is declining because the options seem endless. This is counter-intuitive, but biologically it makes sense.
Robert King
· 17 min read
Last Man Standing
Francis Fukuyama’s new memoir assesses an intellectual life devoted to the health of the liberal-democratic idea.
Matt Johnson
· 12 min read
Dark Artist
Frank Miller’s valuable new memoir explores the creative life of one of America’s most gifted writers and artists.
Ron Capshaw
· 9 min read
Sex Differences Above the Neck
The evidence for innate sex differences has been accumulating for decades. Steve Stewart-Williams's new book is a welcome inventory.
Jerry A. Coyne
· 16 min read
Blood, Progress, and Amnesia
There is real value in Noah Rothman's century-spanning chronicle of left-wing terror, but it falls short in analysis.
Jason Manning
· 9 min read
Omer Bartov: What Went Wrong?
A distinguished historian of the Holocaust views Israel through the wrong prism.
Benny Morris
· 25 min read
The Modern Mythology of AI
LLMs are incredibly useful, even astonishing. But they aren’t “thinking” about anything.
Peter L. Levin
· 10 min read
Charlie Is My Darling
Claudia Verhoeven’s new book is a valuable contribution to the crowded library of Mansonia.
George Case
· 9 min read
Gloomy Optimist
Jefferson emerges as a man who doubted democracy's permanence yet placed his faith in future generations. Onuf and Cogliano rescue him from caricature—even if one dimension of his thought remains in shadow.
Ron Capshaw
· 6 min read
In Bad Faith
The US vice president’s new memoir leaves an unflattering impression of its author.
Graham Daseler
· 12 min read