THE ONE yearbook you don’t want to find your children in is The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The APA has just brought out the 5th edition, which, in keeping with the insidious trendiness they…
WE HEAR much about “the coarsening of the culture” nowadays but I submit that there is something worse, and that is cultural refining. I know this because I learned it in college, when I could not resist courses whose catalogue…
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to LeadBy Sheryl Sandberg(Alfred A. Knopf, 228 pages, $28.95) A half-century has now passed since feminism hit the fan in the early Sixties. Sheryl Sandberg, who has been called “the It Girl of…
(This review by Florence King ran in the March 2008 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here.)
(This review by Florence King ran in the Dec.2007-Jan. 2008 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here.)
This review by Florence King appeared in the September 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to our monthly print edition, click here. Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne (Yale University Press, 335 pages,…
This review by Florence King appears in the June 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to the monthly print edition, click here. Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford Edited by Peter Y. Sussman (Knopf, 744 pages, $35) DO…
This review by Florence King appears in the April 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to the monthly print edition, click here. The Man Who Would Not Shut Up: The Rise of Bill O’Reilly by Marvin Kitman (St….
This review by Florence King appeared in the March 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to the monthly print edition, click here. Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir By Gore Vidal (Doubleday, 277 pages, $26) SHOOT IF YOU…
This review appears in the February 2007 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to the monthly print edition, click here. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler (Knopf, 851 pages, $35) WALT DISNEY HAD MUCH…