“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. –John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” Fourteen years ago, my not yet girlfriend, Cindy, lived on Hamstead Heath, London. Every…
To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for the South’s Most Feared Ship and the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War By Phil Keith with Tom Glavin (Hanover Square Press, 316 pages, $30) The horrendous American…
The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding By Ryan S. Walters (Regnery History, 320 pages, $25.44) Warren G. Harding, who was president from 1921 until his death in 1923, has been disparaged, defamed, and derided for the past century….
Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon and the Election of 1960 By Irwin F. Gellman (Yale University Press, 504 pages, $35) I was but 14 in 1960, but do have a very personal memory of the Kennedy/Nixon campaign. We had…
LGBTQ advocates, eager to evangelize kids into the ever-shifting world of gender ideology, are writing LGBTQ children’s books to bring the youth into the fold. So many LGBTQ children’s books have been written that it has emerged as a sub-genre…
The New York Times is concerned about censorship in American schools. “Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S.” reads Sunday’s headline. “Parents, activists, school board officials and lawmakers around the country are challenging books at a pace not seen in…
American historian Alexander Motyl tackles a taboo subject in his new book A Russian in Berlin, a novel about memories of mass rape by Red Army troops of German women and pubescent girls in the summer of 1945. He tells…
As a boy, I had a small TV in my room. My parents didn’t need to worry about its dangerous media influences on me. The most violent thing I could watch was Batman punching out the Riddler’s henchmen, often with…
Creative Types and Other Stories Tom Bissell Pantheon, 224 pages, $24 The Hack, one of seven short stories in journalist and fiction writer Tom Bissell’s latest offering, Creative Types and Other Stories, succinctly articulates the raison d’être of its collection: “Talented…
