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Kevin Roberts’ book ‘Dawn’s Early Light’ explains the Heritage Foundation meltdown
On a Thursday night in December, I got a breathless call from a Heritage Foundation senior scholar. John Malcolm and Jessica Reinsch, the director and a deputy director of the think tank's Meese Center for Legal and…
This book shows why invading Greenland would be a dumb idea
Polar War: Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic, by Kenneth R. Rosen, Simon & Schuster, 320 pages, $29 When he first started talking about it, President Donald Trump's desire to take over…
‘Muscle Man’ novel comments on men and weightlifting
In the years since the pandemic, weightlifting has frequently been associated with right-wing and even neofascist politics. In the media, guys—and it's always guys—who lift are regularly portrayed as authoritarian thugs,…
‘A Cartoonist’s Life’ biography documents Robert Crumb’s career
Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life, by Dan Nadel, Scribner, 480 pages, $35 "In the spring of 1962, an 18-year-old Robert Crumb was beaned in the forehead by a solid glass ashtray. His mother, Bea, had hurled it at his…
‘Project Mind Control’ book documents MKUltra project
Project Mind Control tells the lurid tale of the CIA's attempts to discover the scientific principles that would allow people to control subjects' thoughts and actions. The author, University of Texas historian John…
‘Progressive Myths’ Rebuts the Left’s Histrionic Takes
Michael Huemer's new book Progressive Myths aims to inoculate readers against what the author calls the "progressive mind virus": an infection, he writes, that "deactivates one's truth-seeking…
‘Tradecraft’ book chronicles John le Carré’s career
John le Carré's characters were the opposite of James Bond. Like Bond creator Ian Fleming, le Carré was a veteran British intelligence officer who wrote spy novels. But unlike Fleming's action hero, le Carré's…
The ‘Cyberselfish’ revival shows libertarianism continues to be misunderstood
Paulina Borsook was an early writer for Wired magazine in the 1990s who became alarmed by what she saw as the encroachment of sinister libertarian ideas in the culture of a tech business world which, she correctly noted in…
Frank S. Meyer and the history of fusionism
With The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer, Daniel J. Flynn has produced a biography valuable to both political novices and serious students of the conservative movement. Laymen will gain from…
Jerry Garcia biography explores counterculture history
Former Los Angeles Times man Jim Newton, in his book Here Beside the Rising Tide, picked a representative subject through which to judge the achievements and excesses of the 1960s counterculture: Grateful Dead guitarist and…
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