Category: Reviews

Did any book ever have a better title? And the motive behind the book is almost as good ~ to do some justice, for a …

Since Sept. 11, a lot of people have attempted to explain “why they hate us.” Yet the vast majority of people in the world don’t …

Philip Jenkins, a professor of his- tory and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University, has made something of a career of pointing out that the …

In the 1960s, Milton Friedman put forward the idea of a negative income tax. Essentially, Friedman’s proposal was that, rather than providing welfare, medical, retirement, …

If what Evelyn Waugh wrote is true – “personal experiences are a novel- ist’s capital, to be hoarded, and spent only with prudent avarice” – …

Historians of 19th-century psychiatry have mostly focused their attention on the Victorian mausoleums that entombed tens of thousands of the insane, physically and symbolically cutting …

John Varley writes with startling creativity and a priceless gift for authenticity. When he arrived in the mid- 1970s with a flurry of hard science …

“Liberty is in fact only a secondary need; the primary need is security.” – Bertrand de JouveneP My youthful education in the freedom movement began …

I have felt for a long time that it is as important to preach what you practice as it is to practice what you preach. …

“The Kingdom” is yet another political thriller set in the Middle East, deter- mined to convince audiences that we are all the same beneath our …