Most of the terms in which the ongoing debate over the “Great Books” is carried on aren’t helpful. Calling people white supremacists for wanting students to read Kant, writing substance-free encomia to the beauty of Western civilization — neither of…
Once a brutal dictatorship, Taiwan is now one of the world’s most vibrant democracies, having received a Global Freedom Score of 94/100 from Freedom House and the accolade of Asia’s most democratic country from the Economist. Its leader, President Tsai…
Reading Mel Brooks’s new autobiography, All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business, I found myself thinking, “There will be no more stories like this.” By “this,” I mean personal accounts of growing up poor in an immigrant Jewish…
Before getting to the “hole” in RFK Jr.’s new book, I would like to say that his brutal smackdown of the Dr. Anthony Fauci–Bill Gates vaccine oligarchy, The Real Anthony Fauci, is arguably the century’s most important book, and a…
When I was a kid, the stories had normal plots. You know, an idiot wolf, a girl one fry short of a Happy Meal, a very heroic hero, and a really villainous villain. A couple of days ago I was…
Jews from all over the world are celebrating Hanukkah this week. Hanukkah commemorates the political and religious emancipation of the Jews from the Seleucid Greeks in Judea and Samaria from 168 to 142 BCE. To get into the Hanukkah spirit,…
Don’t let our Grinch of a president steal Christmas — check out our gift recommendations for the conservative book lovers in your life! ***** R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr: How long does it take an author to write a very good…
Fans of John Keats (1795–1821) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) have a reason to celebrate. Esteemed Shakespeare scholar Sir Jonathan Bate’s recently published book Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott…
Promenades By Nicolas Sarkozy (Herscher, 304 pages, $33) Published on September 22. Only available in French. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy made headlines this year when he became the first president in French history to receive a prison sentence. In…
