It's informative to compare two current memoirs focused upon race: the rapturously welcomed Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which I reviewed a week ago, and The ...

Phantom Terror, by Adam Zamoyski (Basic Books, 2015). Born in America and raised in Britain, Adam Zamoyski is not a tenured university professor devoted to obscure subjects that ...

Last week I looked at the multiple ironies of the young Barack Obama's dismissive 1994 review of The Bell Curve. Today, 20 years after the publication of Richard J. Herrnstein and ...

In 2005, a microbiologist from Maryland started a humble blog dedicated to his exploits in Washington, D.C.'s notoriously rough dating market. The blog was titled, appropriately ...

Economics can be a misleading subject. When it comes to devising useable theories on boosting economic growth, its professional gurus often pretend to be a step above the ...

Denunciatory reviews of Nicholas Wade's book A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History have typically fallen into two general categories: "€¢ Well, nobody ...

Like apparently everybody who can read, still a probable majority in the U.S., I have just finished Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance, which deals with the genetics of ...

Resentment is the one emotion that can last a lifetime and will never let you down. All other emotions are fleeting and unreliable by comparison. I have tried hating someone for ...

At the nexus of Anton LaVey and Robert Anton Wilson lies Trevor Blake. In Confessions of a Failed Egoist and Other Essays, Blake combines The Doctor's brand of deadpan dark ...

Harris, W. C. Slouching Towards Gaytheism: Christianity and Queer Survival in America. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. 277pp. W. C. Harris is a radical gay ...

With publication of On The Road in 1957, Jack Kerouac became an overnight celebrity"€”not just famous, but a phenomenon. The experience brought him to another level of ...

Magill, R. Jay Jr. Sincerity: How a moral ideal born five hundred years ago inspired religious wars, modern art, hipster chic, and the curious notion that we all have something to ...

Ernest Hemingway’s Across the River and Into the Trees was published in 1950 to terrible reviews, but I recall that at some point in the past I thought Across the River was ...

Gottfried, Paul. War and Democracy: Selected Essays 1975-2012. London; Arktos Media, Ltd., 2012. The last time I saw Paul Gottfried was at the Mencken Club bash last November. ...

Cooper, Artemis. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure. London: John Murray, 2010. On December 9th, 1933, an eighteen-year-old miscreant rushed through the rain at Tower Bridge to ...

Judith Schalansky. Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands"€”Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will. London, New York: Penguin, 2012. 240 pp. The West is writing over all the ...