Book Review: The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
Just the issues, please. With the midterm elections coming this year, Mark W. Smith released through Regnery Publishing The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: The Arguments You Need...
View ArticleMichael Barone’s The New Americans: A short review, and excerpts.
I am quite familiar with Michael Barone’s lapidary style in political writing, which raises him above the rest of the polemicists out there. I have received gratis from Regnery Publishing a review copy...
View ArticleGreat books
I’ve spent the past week reading Ender’s Game. Looking back, I’ve thought to myself, “whoa, I’ve only read this book now?” But at the same time, taking the rest of my life and experiences in context, I...
View ArticleLocke and Demosthenes
The mark of truly great fiction of any genre is the way a reader can take more than what the author intended to give: it becomes a measure of a reader’s gestalt more than that of the author’s. The...
View ArticleBook Review: The Case Against Barack Obama
We interrupt the lack of posts and politics to bring you a short and sweet review for a book I received from Regnery Publishing. The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda...
View ArticleBrief footnote
David Foster Wallace is dead.* * – Whose very existence I first learned of through an Onion spoof. Having done so, I sampled some of his work that I could find online and was astounded by his creative...
View ArticleFootfall
I was doing some random reading on Wikipedia and the subject of survivalism when I came across an entry for Jerry Pournelle’s Footfall. The Cliff’s Notes version of course would leave out nuances that...
View ArticleCoffeetable presentation
We’ve all come across this kind of online feature before: “top 25″ this, “top ten” that, of any subject from skin care products to methods of murder. Most models follow two paradigms for presenting a...
View ArticleNew PIG, on the New Deal and the Great Depression
I recently received my review copy of The Politically Incorrect Guide to The Great Depression and the New Deal, by Robert Murphy, courtesy of Regnery Publishing. I’ve skimmed portions of it and so far...
View ArticleBook Review: The Essential American, 25 Documents and Speeches Every American...
Jackie Gingrich Cushman, daughter of former Speaker Of The House New Gingrich, puts together an anthology of 25 historical documents and speeches. More than a reprinting of such greats as the...
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