Michael Johnson

An American Spectator in Paris by Joseph A. Harriss (Unlimited Publishing, 328 pages, $17.99) Some professor once said we should…

Okay, we all know that the London Olympics were successful and full of great surprises. Good for the winners, bad…

With the possible exception of the egregious Geraldo Rivera, I cannot think of another television interviewer who has stirred emotions…

“I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling in going on in here,” says Captain Renault in the film Casablanca…

Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America’s Imperial DreamBy Gregg…

The Founding Fathers vs. The People: Paradoxes in American DemocracyBy Anthony King (Harvard University Press, 242 pages, $35) Some of…

George F. Kennan: An American Life By John Lewis Gaddis (Penguin Press, 784 pages, $39.95) One of the more poignant…

America has been marathon-mad for decades but after you have run a few of them they begin to seem a…

On Evil By Terry Eagleton (Yale University Press, 176 pages, $16) “The devil seems to have all the best tunes,”…

As our youngsters continue to be outscored by Asians and Europeans in basic subjects like math and reading, some middle…