New pop culture villains? July 20, 2013Rosslyn Smith
I don't follow pop culture closely enough to say if this is a trend, but in the last month I've read two recently released mystery suspense novels with surprising villains.
What I Miss About Amer!ca (a review) October 7, 2012Eileen F. Toplansky
A newly published gem of an ebook captures the angst of Americans who are angry and terrified at what this President has wrought during his first term.
Maraniss Gets Testy as New Obama Bio Tanks July 30, 2012Jack Cashill
Maraniss spent the last four years on his career book, released it in the heart of a heated re-election season, got the kind of exposure a Kardashian would envy, and now finds the book heading for the remainder racks weeks after its release.
Dr. Jasser's Panglossian Koranic Gloss June 17, 2012Andrew G. Bostom
Dr. Mohammed Zuhdi Jasser has just released his first book, A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot's Fight to Save His Faith.
Allan Bloom: Remembering the Teacher April 21, 2012Daren Jonescu
This spring marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Bloom's best-selling philosophical polemic, The Closing of the American Mind. The time is ripe to asess the impact of the man and his work.
Savage New Territory: Trickle Down TyrannyApril 5, 2012Larrey Anderson
In the "Acknowledgments" at the end of his new book Trickle Down Tyranny, Michael Savage states that this book is his "most seminal work." He probably will be proven right. Savage is breaking fresh ground and planting original seeds.
Coincidence? January 27, 2012Rosslyn Smith
The often controversial and always interesting libertarian scholar Charles Murray has a new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010.
AMERITOPIA: Mark Levin Connects the Dots January 16, 2012C. Edmund Wright
When I came across the line that "Utopia misapprehends man's nature," I had to stop reading and make a note to self. I do this with any brilliantly succinct and accurate notion.
A Double-Dose of Spengler November 15, 2011Herbert E. Meyer
Back in the 1990s, a publication no one had ever heard of, Asia Times, began to run a column written by someone calling himself "Spengler." Now, writing under his real name, he has published two books simultaneously.
On Dogs, Man, and the Navy August 27, 2011Navy One
When an unmarried man retires, divorces himself from the Navy, and takes off his uniform for the last time, he often loses something quiet. It is subtle, this change, and those first years out of khaki dress-blues can be troubling.
The Astonishing World to Come July 27, 2011Herbert E. Meyer
I've just read one of the most brilliant, most important -- and most optimistic -- books about world politics that's been written in the last hundred years.
