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
Review
A collection of 186 posts
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
Pathology and Politics
British author Josh Ireland’s new book about the murder of Leon Trotsky tells the gripping story of a rivalry between two very different men.
Ron Capshaw
· 11 min read
It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To
The most consequential weakness of philosopher and journalist Kathleen Stock’s new polemic against assisted dying is its failure to engage with the empirical record.
Rosalind Arden
· 14 min read
Treacherous Men
A fabulous new history of the Cambridge Five by Antonia Senior provides the definitive account of Britain’s most famous traitors.
Ronald Radosh
· 12 min read
Kingdom Come
A new book about Stephen King’s early novels will only appeal to hardcore fans, but its very existence is a reminder of its subject’s incalculable cultural impact.
Kevin Mims
· 26 min read
A Man for All Seasons
Susan Owens’s handsome new monograph reconsiders the life and career of the English landscape painter John Constable.
Graham Daseler
· 9 min read