Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means – by William T. Vollmann
May 17, 2026With the exceptions of several of his earlier works, every time I take on a book...
Recovering the Past: A Historian’s Memoir by Forrest McDonald
May 17, 2026McDonald’s memoir is very good because Professor McDonald writes for those of us who delight in...
The Quiet Mountains – A Ten-Year Search for the Last Wild Trout of Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental – by Rex Johnson, Jr.
May 16, 2026One region I’ve always wanted to wander about in is Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental mountains, a...
The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges — and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates by Daniel Golden
May 16, 2026Money dominates far greater a percentage of admissions than colleges—who are desperate to boost endowments to...
Profilers, Leading Investigators Take You Inside the Criminal Mind
May 16, 2026The science of criminal profiling has exploded on the public consciousness following the publication of Thomas...
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History – by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., PhD.
May 16, 2026The good news is that the assault on fortress academe has had initial success; the walls...
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
May 15, 2026In 1985 I traveled to the United States for a lecture tour. I was then still...
Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh – by John Elder
May 15, 2026This is a beautiful book. The author is a professor of English at Middlebury College whose...
Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T.J. English
May 15, 2026The genius of the Irish who emigrated to the United States in the 19th and early...
The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery of A Strange and Dangerous Life – by Tom Reiss
May 15, 2026Admirers of a haunting gem of a novel called, ALI & NINO, a work that seemed...




