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Pat Buchanan: The Noble RelicHas 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 NeedleCharles 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 HuxtablesIn her new book The Obamas, Jodi Kantor, a New York Times White House correspondent,... |
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The Neocons’ Intellectual CodpieceMy first exposure to Straussian ideas was in college via a photocopy handout of... |
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The Irrational AgentPerhaps the most lauded book of 2011 was Thinking, Fast and Slow by the Princeton... |
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The Year Is Almost Over—Is the World?Things aren’t looking too good these days, says Slavoj Zizek in his latest book,... |
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Nature’s ToryThere wouldn’t seem to be much left to say about the late Christopher Hitchens after... |
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Did FDR Provoke Pearl Harbor?On Dec. 8, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt took the rostrum before a joint session of Congress... |
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From Black Robes to White CoatsI just drove to Kansas and back, 2600 miles listening to the radio and pondering... |
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The Most Brutal SpeciesDavid Grossman. To the End of the Land. Vintage (reprint edition), 2011. 672pp. Dave... |
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A Fatally Misled CivilizationPat Buchanan may be the only self-described paleoconservative whose last six books have... |
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The Melancholy Roar of RetreatOne of the schoolmasters in charge of my Anglican religious instruction used to say... |
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Of Confucius and ConfusionIn his new book On China, Henry Kissinger looks at what makes China what it is. In his... |
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The Freedom to Be MiddlingFreedom by Jonathan Franzen came out last year, but since it has been called the novel... |