John R. Coyne, Jr.

Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians By Robert W. Merry (Simon & Schuster,…

South Dakota calls itself “the land of infinite variety,” and no place in the state better epitomizes this variousness than…

Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right By Thomas Frank(Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co.,…

Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit By Joseph Epstein (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 242 pages, $25) First impressions: A small book, hard cover…

Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh MohammedBy William Shawcross(PublicAffairs, 256 pages, $26.99) STRANGE, how…

A Matter of PrincipleBy Conrad Black(McClelland & Stewart, 581 pages, $35) A big book by a big man, in many…

On China, by Henry Kissinger (Penguin Press, 586 pages, $36) Henry Kissinger, Bill Buckley once observed, taught a course at…

The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American CultureBy David Mamet(Sentinel, 241 pages, $27.95) “The struggle of the Left to…

Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College By Andrew Ferguson (Simon & Schuster/228 pp/$25) In…

Farnsworth’s Classical English RhetoricBy Ward Farnsworth(David R. Godine, 254 pages, $26.95) “Of all the gin joints in all the towns…