Books
The Left’s Accusation of Conservative Book Banning is Nonsense
The Left is obsessed with the idea that conservatives are the real book banners. California Democrat state Sen. Scott Weiner took to X recently to bash “MAGA” and assumedly Florida, accusing them of banning one of the most…
Fox News Ventures Into Fiction Book Publishing With Thriller
FOX News contributor and former congressman Trey Gowdy launched his new crime thriller on Tuesday, marking the first novel published by FOX News Books. “I want people to know what it’s like to be a homicide prosecutor. I did…
Making the Lives of Saints Available To Children
Bishop Robert Barron’s evangelical powerhouse combines classic stories with truly unmatched aesthetics. What is a tongue-stone? Well, it’s just that: a triangular stone that looks an awful lot like a tongue, found in the high…
If “Making It” can make it there
In the paywalled Free Press column “The Longest Journey in the World,” Norman Podhoretz looks back at age 95 to recount the ups and downs of his life and career. Toward the end of the column, he recalls: Having long been a…
‘Rabbit Club’ Showcases Intricate Storytelling
“The Rabbit Club,” the newest novel from Christopher Yates, America’s finest writer of thrillers, weaves a tale nearly impossible to put down. It includes Oxford University, secret societies, danger and suspense at every…
Rosenwald & Washington | Power Line
This past June we published three posts by Chris Flannery on Mark Twain. These posts were the surplus of Chris’s Claremont Review of Books review “Pure gold and his American Mind column “To absquatulate.” The review, the…
Michelle Alexander’s gospel | Power Line
In the August 14 Wall Street Journal column “Evidence Backs Trump on Higher Ed’s Bias,” Professors Jon Shields and Yuval Avnur report the results of their study of bias in college teaching. Exhibit A is the prominent use of…
This is what fraud looks like
Ilhan Omar is the alleged co-author of the memoir This Is What America Looks Like, published by HarperCollins in 2020. The memoir was written “with Rebecca Paley,” in a style and tone that bear absolutely no resemblance to…
Leclerc at Dachau | Power Line
This is my final note on Free France’s Lion, General Philippe Leclerc, at least for the time being. As I have observed in these notes, Leclerc was a man of sterling character. It shines forth from the pages of William…
Downfall | Power Line
It was 80 years ago yesterday that we dropped the big one on Hiroshima. I pulled down my copy of Richard B. Frank’s Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire in honor of the day. What an excellent book. Given current…
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