Books
‘On Democracies and Death Cults’
I recommend reading the recent Douglas Murray book On Democracies and Death Cults (Harper, April 2025, 197 pages). It covers the war in Gaza and includes much direct coverage of the war by Murray in person. Its April 2025…
Change this | Power Line
I took an outstanding Latin course on Ovid’s epic poem Metamorphoses from Dartmouth Classics Professor Edward Bradley in the winter of 1970 — that’s me with my old copy of the Metamorphoses in the photo with Professor Bradley…
A thirsty evil | Power Line
One doesn’t need to be the Oracle of Delphi to foretell the coming of the vile Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor of New York. It’s almost unbelievable. Mamdani’s father is Mahmood Mamdani, the Herbert Lehman Professor of…
Where’s my Grrrll? | Power Line
For the past 12 years I have leaped out of bed with a bounce on Friday mornings to edit Ammo Grrrll’s weekly Thoughts from the Ammo Line. This morning my body rhythms are off. Ammo Grrrll has left the building. I need a…
Maria Corina Machado? Whodat??? | Power Line
John Updike compiled three volumes of short stories about his writerly Jewish alter ego Henry Bech. When Bech is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature — in “Bech and the Bounty of Sweden,” the concluding story of Bech At Bay…
Hostage | Power Line
Eli Sharabi’s memoir of his 491 days in the captivity of Hamas in Gaza has just been published in English (translated by the prolific X poster and former Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy). Published by HarperCollins,…
Quote of the day
In the September 20 Review section of the Wall Street Journal, Dominic Green took up a new book on anti-Semitism in “A poisonous history.” Mr. Green is the author of the pseudonymous Spectator column (attributed…
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