Washington Times contributor Christian Josi’s review of American Spectator founder R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s autobiography How Do We Get Out of Here? Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at The American Spectator — From Bobby Kennedy to Donald J. Trump is…
The week between Christmas and the New Year is unlike any other time of year. Hopefully, you have some extra free time to reflect on the past and look forward to the future. Why not take this opportunity to open…
The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad By Harrison Salisbury ( Da Capo Press, 672 pages, $23) Eighty-two years ago, the Russian city of St. Petersburg — then called Leningrad after the founder of the Soviet Union — was under siege…
The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance By David T. Beito (Independent Institute, 404 pages, $27) James MacGregor Burns, one of the old school New Deal giants…
Author’s Note: My just-published book, Up From Socialism: My 60-Year Search for a Healing New Radical Politics (Bombardier Books/Post Hill Press), devotes hundreds of pages to lovingly describing and subtly critiquing the inner life of “idealistic” leftist organizations, and the…
Christmas is coming. What better time to turn to thinking about a Christmas list of books you can give to family, friends – or yourself? I decided to get ahead of the Christmas book schedule with — what else —…
My Name Is Barbra By Barbra Steisand (Viking, 992 pages, $47) Nowadays, the name of Barbra Streisand is likely to bring to mind her shrill, standard-issue Malibu politics, which she doesn’t hesitate to share regularly online. In recent weeks, for…
The American Spectator’s founder, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., joined the Bill Martinez Show to discuss his latest book, How Do We Get Out of Here?: Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at The American Spectator―From Bobby Kennedy to Donald…
Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World By Richard Cockett (Yale University Press, 464 pages, $35) A few years ago, I read a very interesting book by Arthur Herman entitled How the Scots Invented the Modern World….
