In an Age of Scams, Self-Help Falls Short
An individualistic focus only goes so far in preventing scams and frauds.
Sohale Mortazavi
· 10 min read
Review
A collection of 130 posts
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
· 12 min read
Libertarian Limitations
Andrew Koppelman’s analysis of libertarianism is rich in detail and full of thought-provoking ideas.
Marco den Ouden
· 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
· 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
· 12 min read
One-Dimensional Woman Enters the Manosphere
Nina Power’s new book is fraught with contradictions and ideological incoherence.
Arturo Desimone
· 7 min read
Dare to Be Brilliant
Nolan’s kaleidoscopic biopic may be his most ambitious picture to date.
Brad Strotten
· 4 min read
The Eyes of the Storm
A historic diary in pictures, which just happens to belong to Sir Paul McCartney.
Hannah Gal
· 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
· 22 min read
Humanity Should Split More Atoms
The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear.
Lea Booth
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 9 min read
The Dualism of Duluoz
An eagerly awaited new edition of Gerald Nicosia’s splendid Kerouac biography provides the definitive portrait of a great artist and a profoundly troubled man.
David S. Wills
· 15 min read