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Is Administrative Law Unlawful? (Philip Hamburger)

Administrative law—the delegation by the legislature of legislative and judicial power to the executive—is the backdrop of every American life, but very few people...

Light Infantry Tactics: For Small Teams (Christopher Larsen)

In these latter days, many people in flyover country have been preparing for the Apocalypse. This is not the Apocalypse of St. John, depicted...

Colloquy: Why Conservatives Don’t Care About “Russian Email Hacks”

I honestly don't understand this "Russian hacking" thing. As I understand it, somebody (apparently presumably the Russians) stole private Democratic emails damaging to the...

What Washington Gets Wrong (Jennifer Bachner and Benjamin Ginsberg)

“What Washington Gets Wrong” shows, by polling statistics, what we all know already. Namely, that those who run the government, from Capitol City—sorry, from...

C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law (Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson)

“C.S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law” collects in one short book the thoughts of Lewis on human collective action, i.e., politics. The...

Does Political Correctness Exist Among Conservatives?

This is not convincing, because it posits a false analogy.  (It is also extremely badly written.)  The analogy is false because it falsely defines...

Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (David Hackett Fischer)

“Albion’s Seed” is a classic work of ethnography. It is refreshing to read because a book like it could not be written today (it...

The High House (James Stoddard)

“The High House” is a startlingly original book. It is, in some ways, young adult fantasy. In other ways, it is fully adult allegory....

The Battle of Salamis (Barry Strauss)

Barry Strauss is a master of the “you are there” style of popular historical writing. His books are accessible and gripping narratives about discrete...

Deep Survival (Laurence Gonzales)

I read Laurence Gonzales’ “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, And Why” as a counterpoint to Amanda Ripley’s “The Unthinkable.” Both are survivor books,...

The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Amanda Ripley)

The Unthinkable is basically a self-improvement manual. But the promised self-improvement isn’t better organization, inner peace or higher task efficiency; rather it is increased...

Colloquy: Not-For-Profits Are Not Inherently Virtuous and “Giving Back” Is A Stupid Term

I don't understand, but without the rhetoric, I really want to see the world through your eyes regarding your comment about "evil not-for-profit..." How...