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Islamist Terror; Journalistic Error

In a valuable new book, historian Richard Landes argues that Western reporting on the Second Palestinian Intifada helped to seed a misunderstanding of terrorism.

Jeffrey Herf

2 Dec 2022 · 19 min read

Murakami On Writing

In his new book, Murakami attempts to set the limits of what he wants people to know about him—and that isn’t much.

David S. Wills

24 Nov 2022 · 11 min read

The Problems with Longtermism

The further we look into the future, the less certain we can be about our predictions and plans.

Matt Johnson

27 Oct 2022 · 12 min read

A Strange and Brutal Country

Adam Curtis’s new BBC series provides a unique insight into Russia’s late-twentieth-century collapse.

Christopher J. Snowdon

24 Oct 2022 · 6 min read

Defying Russia’s Despot

Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s new book offers a profile in courage.

John Lloyd

20 Oct 2022 · 9 min read

The Striver’s Curse

A review of Arthur C. Brooks’s new book, ‘From Strength to Strength.’

Ari David Blaff

16 Aug 2022 · 6 min read

Go Ask Beatrice: Notes on a Dishonest Decade

An outstanding new book tells the story of a wildly successful literary hoax. But it was just one of many.

Kevin Mims

2 Aug 2022 · 28 min read

Children of the Counter-Revolution

Sexual liberty reconsidered.

Cathy Young

8 Jul 2022 · 16 min read

What a Survivalist Reality TV Show Can Teach Us About the Human Condition

What makes 'Alone' endlessly fascinating and deeply moving is the mirror it holds up to our broken lives.

Jacob Howland

5 Jul 2022 · 8 min read

Douglas Murray's War on the West—A Review

If 'The Strange Death of Europe' was a requiem for a stricken continent, 'War on the West' is intended to be an act of defiance.

Gisa Tunbridge

23 Jun 2022 · 8 min read

Washington’s Hidden History

Kirchick’s book is a reminder of a shameful past, but its very existence is also evidence of the progress that the West’s democracies have made in the years since.

Fred Litwin

31 May 2022 · 9 min read

Israel’s Perilous Moment, Then and Now

Herf tells the complicated and often surprising story of the internal political struggles in Western capitals, as well as in the halls of the United Nations, that erupted at the end of the Second World War.

Sol Stern

18 May 2022 · 13 min read

Hofstadter’s Paranoid Style Revisited

Hofstadter argued that McCarthyism was simply the latest iteration of a longstanding American tradition.

Michael J. Totten

16 May 2022 · 9 min read

The Tragedy of American Diplomacy: A Rebuttal

Williams, W. A. (1962). The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. New York: Dell Pub. Co. When the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) pinned [https://www.dsausa.org/statements/on-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/] Putin’s recent invasion of Ukraine on NATO’s “imperialist expansionism,” many policymakers and journalists on both sides [https://www.nytimes.com/

Niranjan Shankar

6 May 2022 · 15 min read

Revolution Betrayed

A review of The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism [https://www.amazon.com/Right-Hundred-Year-War-American-Conservatism/dp/1541600509] by Matthew Continetti, Basic Books, 496 pages (April 2022) “So inevitable and yet so completely unforeseen” was Alexis de Tocqueville’s verdict on the French Revolution. Much the same can be said

Brian Stewart

4 May 2022 · 15 min read