In Review: Stet, Damnit! The Misanthrope’s Corner, 1991-2002 by Florence King (National Review Books, 506 pages, $29.95) It is daunting to be charged with composing a notice of Stet, Damnit!, the valedictory anthology containing all the columns that Florence King…

EDMONTON — The Spectatorians have asked me to comment on the outcry against Conan O’Brien here in Canada, and while I wouldn’t dream of defending the phony indignation of a handful of socialists, kleptocrats, and race-baiters, there is a genuine…

If you wish to trace the sources of the libertarian strain in 20th-century American thought, you must include the science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein in your accounting of Hayeks, Menckens, Rands, and Rothbards. He deserves no less, yet is…

If there is a more stylistically sound liberal-moderate writer in the United States right now than Gregg Easterbrook, his name eludes me. Reading his forthcoming book The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse is, as a…