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Paul Gottfried’s Calm Despair

Paul Gottfried’s Calm Despair

Gottfried, Paul. War and Democracy: Selected Essays 1975-2012. London; Arktos Media,...

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A Traveler in Search of Tradition

A Traveler in Search of Tradition

Cooper, Artemis. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure. London: John Murray, 2010. On...

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The End of Adventure

The End of Adventure

Judith Schalansky. Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands—Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited...

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Replicants of Bombay

Replicants of Bombay

Jeet Thayil. Narcopolis. London; Faber & Faber, 2012. 292 pp. Jeet Thayil’s debut...

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The Late, Great Joe Sobran

The Late, Great Joe Sobran

Joseph Sobran: The National Review Years. (Vienna, Virginia: FGF Books,...

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Fifty Shades of Frustration

Fifty Shades of Frustration

Now that I have been sucked into the vortex that is the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, I...

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Perish the Euro

Perish the Euro

The latest bestseller by German economist Thilo Sarrazin, a former member of the...

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Social Science v. Social Engineering

Social Science v. Social Engineering

In his impressive first book, Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error...

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The Self-Righteous Hive Mind

The Self-Righteous Hive Mind

Haidt, Jonathan. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and...

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The Rent May Be Too Damn Low

The Rent May Be Too Damn Low

On May 14, 2011, Matthew Yglesias, a prominent Washington, DC liberal blogger and...

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Pat Buchanan: The Noble Relic

Pat Buchanan: The Noble Relic

Has Pat Buchanan been fired from MSNBC, or hasn’t he? He hasn’t been seen on the...

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Too Fat to Fit Through the Eye of a Needle

Too Fat to Fit Through the Eye of a Needle

Charles Murray is a genius with a bad idea. Murray is an expert on IQ, but while not...

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The Obamas: Not Quite the Huxtables

The Obamas: Not Quite the Huxtables

In her new book The Obamas, Jodi Kantor, a New York Times White House correspondent,...

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The Neocons’ Intellectual Codpiece

The Neocons’ Intellectual Codpiece

My first exposure to Straussian ideas was in college via a photocopy handout of...

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