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Red State Mars (Travis Corcoran)

The great civilizations of mankind, few in number but everything that really matters in the history of our species, always require an internal common...

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations (Christopher Lasch)

This is a strange book. Christopher Lasch, who published The Culture of Narcissism in 1979, wrote this sociological study at what seemed like the...

Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry (Adrian Goldsworthy)

Americans, sadly, know almost nothing about the history of Persia. Of itself, this doesn’t mean a great deal, since most Americans don’t know much...

The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum (Carl Schmitt)

An evil stench has accompanied the term “new world order” ever since George H. W. Bush used it in 1990, formally inaugurating the American...

End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers (Gord Magill)

A few months ago, I showed our young children 1977’s “Smokey and the Bandit.” As with so many movies that are more than twenty...

Kings in the North: The House of Percy in British History (Alexander Rose)

Cicero described Julius Caesar as a man “of supreme daring, hardened to every risk.” In our hyper-feminized age, such men seem nonexistent, though more...

Tom Wedderburn’s Life (Theodore Judson)

In the perhaps-unfortunate words of the Declaration of Independence, men “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, among these are Life,...

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity (Tim Wu)

Tim Wu is the Jeremiah of our age. For twenty years, his has been one of the very few nuanced voices attacking concentrations of...