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by | Nov 2, 2025

I’m a proud Gen Xer — not because we were so great, but because we are the last generation still…

by | Oct 18, 2025

The Impossible Fortune By Richard Osman Pamala Dorman Books/Viking, 355 pp., $30 There’s a lot of downright intense stuff going…

by | Aug 16, 2025

Real men don’t eat quiche, as we learned from Bruce Feirstein’s amusing 1982 spoof book of the same name. Every…

by | Feb 2, 2025

Like the distant call of a horn announcing the arrival of the cavalry, news broke this week of Trump’s executive…

by | Jan 11, 2025

It is quite possible to be well read and completely stupid. They are not incompatible. But, as a sociologist, let…

by | Oct 7, 2024

This semester at Thales College, I am teaching a survey course focusing on literature, most of it English poetry, from…

by | Sep 21, 2024

With ongoing reports of supposed “book bans” and legislation being passed to “combat” them, it’s important to understand what’s really…

by | Jul 10, 2024

American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again By Yuval Levin  (Basic Books, 352 pages, $25) An important…

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