Editor’s Note: American Spectator writer Aram Bakshian Jr. died on Wednesday. He contributed to the magazine for nearly 50 years. “Beer,” the venerable Nürnberger confided to me with a discreet belch, “has one distinct advantage over sex; when you finally…
Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher By Tom Bethell (Hoover Institution Press, 304 PAGES, $29.95) LIKE MANY AMERICANS OF MY GENERATION, I first became aware of Eric Hoffer through a pair of riveting interviews of the “Longshoreman Philosopher” conducted by Eric…
The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas By Jonah Goldberg (Sentinel, 312 pages, $27.95) Like that humble survivor, the common cockroach, the cliché will always be with us…and that is not entirely a bad thing….
Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters Translated and Edited by Michael Hofmann (Norton, 552 pages, $39.95) History, like earthquakes, has a way of surprising us with unexpected aftershocks. Last July, nearly a century after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian dual…
It is hard to say which one valued most in Priscilla Buckley, her kindness or her intelligence… she had so much of both, and she was always so generous in sharing them. Priscilla never married and had no children, but…
It is hard to say which one valued most in Priscilla Buckley, her kindness or her intelligence… she had so much of both, and she was always so generous in sharing them. Priscilla never married and had no children, but…
I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher’s Guide to WineBy Roger Scruton(Continuum, 219 pages, $17.95) “This book,” author Roger Scruton claims in his preface, “is not a guide to drinking wine, but a guide to thinking it. It is a…
In My Time: A Personal and Political MemoirBy Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney(Threshold Editions, 565 pages, $35) IF I HAD to sum up both the tone of this memoir and the character of its author in six words, I would…
Mr. Speaker! The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed, the Man Who Broke the Filibuster By James Grant (Simon & Schuster, 426 pages, $28) Long before there was an Energy Czar, an Economic Czar, an Environmental Czar or a…
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World WarBy Andrew Roberts(Harper, 712 pages, $29.99) LIKE THE ANNUAL inundation of the Nile, each year brings its fresh flood of increasingly trivial books about World War II, many of…