Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Fiction Reviews
Mission To America – by Walter Kirn
May 12, 2026Walter Kirn’s Mission to America has a confused, nearly schizophrenic, personality, which isn’t necessarily a negative.
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness – by Jack El-Hai
May 12, 2026Walter Jackson Freeman was a man gifted with energy, optimism and an ice pick.
Non-Fiction Reviews
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
May 12, 2026Since our society began its retreat into Social Darwinism tricked out in the guise of laissez-faire...
Fiction Reviews
Kornwolf by Tristan Egolf
May 12, 2026Kornwolf raises the question of whether or not one can endure one’s heritage. We all have...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes – by Alex Vilenkin
May 11, 2026As childhood gave way to adulthood, I came to the realization that my greatest attraction to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
In Character: Actors Acting by Howard Schatz
May 11, 2026Imagine 32 famous actors looking you straight in the eye and flirting with you. (Marlee Matlin!...
Fiction Reviews
The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes by Caleb Carr
May 11, 2026Those writers whom the gods would destroy, they first tempt into trying to imitate another writer...
Nature
The Hundredth Meridian by Chilton Williamson
May 11, 2026Chilton Williamson definitely cares about the West. Every essay in his collection The Hundredth Meridian –...
Non-Fiction Reviews
James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler
May 10, 2026Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the...
History
How Israel Lost: The Four Questions
May 10, 2026There’s an old saying among the Jews that goes something along the lines of: we don’t...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream
May 10, 2026But rather than trace the rise of the institution of eating, Fagone focuses on the eaters...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
May 10, 2026In Adams, Wills has chosen a slippery, famously evasive subject. Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an eccentric,...
Music
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles
May 10, 2026Oh, no—the cry is almost involuntary—not another Beatles book! What more could anyone possibly say? The...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
May 10, 2026Study of the American founding fathers has become a hothouse industry. The capacity of the American...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward – by Charlyne Berens
May 9, 2026Some less than exhaustive research suggests that this book is a first: a campaign biography published...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Essential Grizzly – The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears – by Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock
May 9, 2026The style of this book is intriguing. Doug has written several short stories, called Portraits, based...
Fiction Reviews
Hannah Coulter – by Wendell Berry
May 8, 2026There was a time, not many decades ago, that most of America’s population labored on family...
Art
The Dawn of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
May 8, 2026The statue is nicknamed “The Lady of Brussels” because its home museum is in Belgium. It...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘The C-Word’ (Season 8, Episode 19)
May 8, 2026That wasn’t as bad as I feared. Wilson’s alive (for now) and it looks like next...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Charley Varrick, #78
May 8, 2026Few filmgoers noticed Charley Varrick when it came out in 1973. After all, The Godfather, that...
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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...
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Movies
Happy Birthday, NC-17!
September 1, 2026The basics of the MPAA’s rating system (from here). Oh, NC-17. You’re like that friend who’s...
Movies
Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
September 4, 2026Is Clash of the Titans one of the worst movies ever made? William Bibbiani makes an...
Movies
The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
August 31, 2026Jackson as a zombie in “Thriller” William Bibbiani noted in the Great Music Videos #1 post...
Art
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
September 9, 2026Ironically, while Mr. Guérineau has indicated a desire to infuse France’s museums with fresh blood and...
Art
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 7, 2026While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Iran
Iran’s Cultural Heritage Under Threat
August 31, 2026In addition to depriving Iranians of their cultural property, a decision to turn over the artifacts...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
Television
The Big Easy: Great movies and TV set in New Orleans
September 7, 2026Music is the heart and soul of New Orleans: Wendell Pierce in a publicity shot for...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
September 12, 2026Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
Movies
Corey Haim Found Dead of Accidental Overdose
August 26, 2026Corey Haim, one of the ’80s brightest teen stars, was found dead aged 38 of an...
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