Civil Rights and Wrongs Richard Hanania’s new book is a welcome entry to the conversation about wokeness, but his power-based perspective is incomplete. Oliver Traldi 23 Sep 2023 · 16 min read
In an Age of Scams, Self-Help Falls Short An individualistic focus only goes so far in preventing scams and frauds. Sohale Mortazavi 22 Sep 2023 · 10 min read
Inescapable Disparities Thomas Sowell’s new book reminds us that the world has never been a level playing field and we will not be able to engineer one. Hannah Gal 18 Sep 2023 · 12 min read
Libertarian Limitations Andrew Koppelman’s analysis of libertarianism is rich in detail and full of thought-provoking ideas. Marco den Ouden 12 Sep 2023 · 16 min read
‘A Dream Deferred’ Revisited Shelby Steele’s masterful second book invites black America to reject redemptive liberalism and the helplessness it demands for a humanistic politics of advancement. Samuel Kronen 22 Aug 2023 · 17 min read
What History Teaches Us About the Importance of Academic Freedom This 1949 primer shows us there’s nothing new about today’s controversies about free speech on campus. James Huffman 30 Jul 2023 · 12 min read
One-Dimensional Woman Enters the Manosphere Nina Power’s new book is fraught with contradictions and ideological incoherence. Arturo Desimone 28 Jul 2023 · 7 min read
Dare to Be Brilliant Nolan’s kaleidoscopic biopic may be his most ambitious picture to date. Brad Strotten 27 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
The Eyes of the Storm A historic diary in pictures, which just happens to belong to Sir Paul McCartney. Hannah Gal 18 Jul 2023 · 14 min read
A Life in the Fray A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost. Jeffrey Herf 10 Jul 2023 · 22 min read
Humanity Should Split More Atoms The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear. Lea Booth 7 Jul 2023 · 8 min read
What Even Is ‘Trans’? A new book on gender leaves no space for gender non-conformity that is not defined as 'trans' Holly Lawford-Smith 26 Jun 2023 · 7 min read
What Lies Beneath In ‘The Hidden Spring,’ psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises. Sean Welsh 23 Jun 2023 · 14 min read
America Doesn’t Need Regime Change Patrick Deneen has written a book that reproduces and encourages a form of self-deception that’s pervasive in the United States on the populist Right. Damon Linker 6 Jun 2023 · 16 min read
The Real Cost of Cheap Labour Michael Lind's 'Hell to Pay' presents a dire cautionary message to the political establishment. Sohale Mortazavi 4 Jun 2023 · 9 min read
