Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Non-Fiction Reviews
Engaging, Not Confronting, Russia
July 4, 2026The West would exacerbate rather than ease this problem if it brought Georgia into NATO. Nor...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder by David Healy
July 4, 2026He refuses to accept the dominance of money over medicine and the alarming diagnoses of bipolar...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers by Rose Eichenbaum
July 3, 2026In fact, the only one who doesn’t fall in with this uplifting sentiment is, God bless...
Art & Design
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Fiction Reviews
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
July 3, 2026Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tsouliadis
July 3, 2026Readers of faint heart beware when embarking upon this superb work of history. So many stories...
Native American
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
July 3, 2026Gold, jewels – that was what the new world promised and that was what the Spanish...
Fiction Reviews
The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
July 2, 2026Sir Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. Count Rumford, is probably most familiar to modern ears as the inventor...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Bracing For Armageddon? by William R. Clark
July 2, 2026Asahara amassed hundreds of million dollars and sent agents to far-flung destinations to ferret out information...
History
O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children
July 2, 2026An Imperialist, a warmonger, blind to what was in front of him, the critics say. A...
Military
A Boy’s View of a World War
July 2, 2026The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Being Kidnapped at Knifepoint Is Not Enough to Change David Lida’s Love for Mexico City
July 1, 2026"But with neoliberal governments, an unjust distribution of wealth is becoming the norm. Even in wealthy...
Disability
Jill Bolte Taylor’s Right Brain Wants to Tell Us Something
July 1, 2026"I had a rare congenital malformation in the blood vessels of my left hemisphere and at...
History
Julian The Apostate
July 1, 2026But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
Education
HIGHER EDUCATION, PAST AND PRESENT: IN THE EAST, WEST, AND SOUTH
July 1, 2026HIGHER EDUCATION, PAST AND PRESENT: IN THE EAST, WEST, AND SOUTH John Biggs’s Changing Universities: A...
History
Imag(in)ing America
July 1, 2026The confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was to the Italians the “political, intellectual, and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
June 30, 2026Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
Politics
Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech
June 30, 2026Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades...
Fiction Reviews
Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
June 30, 2026Ogres are like onions, the great philosopher Shrek once said. Onions have layers, ogres have layers....
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
September 25, 2026For many years now Chris Columbus and I have had an understanding: He can suck as...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Russia
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Germany
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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