How Do They Know This? An informative and apolitical new book reminds us that statistics are not always what they seem. Christopher J. Snowdon 8 Dec 2022 · 6 min read
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 · 13 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 · 7 min read
Defying Russia’s Despot Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s new book offers a profile in courage. John Lloyd 20 Oct 2022 · 10 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 · 29 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 · 9 min read
Douglas Murray's War on the West—A Revie 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 · 9 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 · 10 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 · 14 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 Putin’s recent invasion of Ukraine on NATO’s “imperialist expansionism,” many policymakers and journalists on both sides of the political spectrum lambasted the organization for its half-hearted Niranjan Shankar 6 May 2022 · 15 min read
