Après la déconstruction: L’université au défi des idéologies By Emmanuelle Hénin, Xavier-Laurent Salvador, and Pierre-Henri Tavoillot (L’Odile Jacob, 482 pages, $43) Sixty university professors, along with intellectuals across multiple disciplines, convened at La Sorbonne in Paris on Jan. 7–8, 2022,…
Barbie, the much-anticipated, pink-painted summer blockbuster, has generated a broad spectrum of visceral responses from critics and moviegoers since its July 21 release. The cotton-candy-colored cinematic confection has been described as everything from a $100 million–plus Mattel commercial to the…
Education is like a precious ruby hanging from an invisible chain around your neck. Once you have acquired it, it will always be with you. No one can ever yank it from your person. Unfortunately, it has become increasingly more…
Élisabeth Borne, la Secrète By Bérengère Bonte (L’Archipel, 240 pages, $28) There’s no better promotional vehicle than controversy and scandal. Given this, journalist Bérengère Bonte’s timely provocative book about France’s current prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, la Secrète (Élisabeth Borne, the…
The long-awaited film adaptation of Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. provides a powerful reminder of the true meaning of becoming a woman to a world that glorifies faux “women” like Lia Thomas and Dylan Mulvaney. Adapting…
We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years By Stephen D. King (Yale University Press, 230 pages, $28) The current inflation rate in the USA is 5 percent, significantly down from its June 2022…
Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis By Jeanna Smialek Alfred A. Knopf, 374 pages, $30 The Federal Reserve System, the United States central banking system, was established in conjunction with the Federal Reserve Act, which…
Hollywood and the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences have finally woken up and acknowledged that woke programming doesn’t resonate with their audience. After delivering politically charged, yet snooze-inducing Oscar award ceremonies to a declining viewership for many years, the…
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World By Malcolm Harris (Little, Brown and Company, 720 pages, $36) Some might wonder why a conservative would choose to read and review California native son Malcolm Harris’ Palo Alto: A…
The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City By Scott Peeples (Princeton University Press, 224 pages, $25) The writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) spent his entire life searching for a place that he could call home. Born…