Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
January 28, 2025What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology by Stewart Justman
January 27, 2025Imagine, for a second, that instead of claiming the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit...
Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph Wood
January 27, 2025Flannery O’Connor was Catholic and Southern, and that combined with her genius produced a writer whose...
The Electric Life of Michael Faraday by Alan Hirshfeld
January 27, 2025He was a discoverer and an inventor, a physicist and a chemist, intensely focused on his...
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Cultureby Louis Dupre
January 26, 2025The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
Faking It by William Ian Miller
January 26, 2025At turns erudite and droll, it reads like the collaborative effort of Harold Bloom and Dave...
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis Dabney
January 26, 20251916 Princeton, a young and still slender Edmund Wilson was advised by professors to "seek the...
Empire of the Stars by Arthur I. Miller
January 25, 2025So why did Eddington savage his young colleague nine years later? Jealousy? Racism? A threat to...
Mark Harris Discusses A “Natural Way of Burial”
January 25, 2025"Above ground, the local cemetery may look bucolic and natural; below the surface, it serves as...
The Future Without A Past: The Humanities In A Technological Society by John Paul Russo
January 25, 2025Weaver was referring, of course, to the media in all its forms and the pernicious effects...




