Of Confucius and Confusion

In his new book On China, Henry Kissinger looks at what makes China what it is. In his new book The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama attempts to explain why China is ...

Jonathan Franzen

The Freedom to Be Middling

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen came out last year, but since it has been called the novel of the century, I suppose it is still relevant. Freedom is what is now called a “literary ...

JonBenét Ramsey

A Statistician’s Imprecise Analysis of True Crime

Bill James, the baseball statistics analyst who has been one of the most revolutionary influences upon American sport and thought over the last generation, has now published a ...

Of Novels and Novelty Acts

According to reviewers, Jennifer Egan’s novel A Visit From the Goon Squad is "€œvirtuosic,"€ "€œshape shifting,"€ "€œstartlingly new,"€ and it "€œturns the ...

Jared Taylor

Fear of an Erudite White

Jared Taylor. White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century. New Century Books, 2011. 342 pp. It's hard to find things to hate about Jared Taylor, and that's what his ...

Literature’s Most Influential Hussy

She lives on credit and lusts after entertainment, whether emotional or commercial. She derives her pleasure solely from seeing her reflection in the gleam of a man's eye or in ...

Abraham Lincoln

Being Dishonest About Abe

In what may be described as the Dell comic-book version of "€œthe Civil War's true beginning,"€ Allen C. Guelzo, seated as Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at ...

Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld: Known, Unknown, and Better Left Unsaid

Nixon in China, John Adams's opera based on Richard Nixon's détente-seeking 1972 visit to the People's Republic, has Kissinger pirouetting, Chairman and Madame Mao dancing the ...

Stephen Hawking: The Gimp Who Would Be God

As if it were the center of the frickin"€™ universe, celebrity physicist Stephen Hawking's new book The Grand Design rocketed atop the publishing cosmos and reached #1 on Amazon ...

Under Siege: On Emma Williams

In October 2000 most of the children invited by Dr. Emma Williams to her son Archie’s seventh birthday party failed to turn up. Distance was not the issue, given that her ...

Chomsky’s Inner Conservative

Noam Chomsky's new book, Hopes and Prospects, leads me to a conclusion that will startle his admirers and critics alike: Chomsky is a conservative. It might surprise him as well. ...

Norman Foster: The World in His Image

At the height of the fashion for post-modernism, the camp panjandrum of late 20th century American architecture Philip Johnson described Norman Foster as “the last modern ...

The Voice of the WASP

It’s always stimulating to discover a quality writer you didn’t know before. For a conservative, it’s doubly stimulating if the discoveree is of the same ...

Country Boys and Conservative Conservation

Edward O. Wilson's new book, Anthill: A Novel, is, in many ways, a traditional first novel: it's primarily a quasi-autobiographical fictional retelling of the author's childhood ...

The Book of Genesis by R. Crumb: A Review

Most people know Robert Crumb as that esoteric cartoonist from the 60s who did the "€œKeep on Truckin"€™"€ guy. Comic nerds like myself, however, see him as the second ...

German Teen’s Plagiarism: Not Just A “€˜Mash-Up”€™

For those unaware, the literary world is currently aflutter over a scandal involving yet another freshman novelist accused of plagiarism.  Helene Hegemann, daughter of famed ...


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