Monthly Archives: April, 2017

How We Got To Now is competent enough, but it feels threadbare.  It feels like a narrative designed to punctuate a picture show that...

Tyler Cowen is a popular economist, known for an influential blog (Marginal Revolution) and a set of books on economics directed at a general...

Twenty years ago, that liberal Baal, philosopher Martha Nussbaum, assigned me to read The Golden Bowl, by Henry James.  She said it was the...

I did not like this book as much as I expected.  In part that’s because, as an American, a narrative of British decline resonates...

I’m a sucker for apocalyptic fiction.  Probably, similar to many doom-and-gloom conservatives, deep down I see myself as bestriding the Apocalypse like a colossus,...

This is a silly and shallow book.  But it is not worthless, because it serves to exemplify and clarify modern political fracture lines.  In...