- What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers by Richard Brookhiser I am a huge fan of Richard Brookhiser. His short biographies are great reads. If you think history is boring, you haven’t been reading Brookhiser. Now he is coming out with this fascinating work that views today’s issues through the lens of [...]
I received another one of those weird Amazon emails. The computers over there are off again. Here is the latest odd match: We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased The Cold War : A New History by John Lewis Gaddis also purchased books by Joseph Volpe. For this reason, you might like to know that [...]
In case anyone is wondering, yes I still read fiction and will be reviewing plenty of it here in the days and weeks to come. This week has had a rather somber focus, what with books on death and war and whatnot. I thought it might be good to bring fiction back into the picture. [...]
Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor at National Review and the author of The Party of Death recently published by Regnery. He is a graduate of Princeton University and has covered politics for more than a decade. In addition to his work with National Review, he has written for the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, the [...]
Even before Ramesh Ponnuru’s new book, The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life, came out it was being attacked. As is sadly all too common these days, “reviewers” at Amazon and bloggers began to complain that the book’s title was inflammatory, hypocritical, etc. They sought to [...]
In an effort to expand my military history knowledge beyond the wars in the Twentieth Century, I decided to read Fred Anderson’s The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War. The book is an excellent summary of the French and Indian War in fewer than 300 pages. Described by [...]
Greg Easterbrook’s Tuesday Morning Quarterback column is back on ESPN. Today’s column includes a true mock draft. I got a chuckle out of this one: 7. Oakland Raiders: Lucifer, frozen devil, University of Gehenna To prevent a strike that might have torn pro football apart, Raiders boss Al Davis cooperated with the league, putting his [...]
I wanted to pass along this note from Bud Parr at MetaxuCafe: All week long we will be covering the Pen World Voices Festival here at MetaxuCafe. In conjunction with the Words Without Borders blog, we will be covering over 30 events this week and posting at MetaxuCafe and other places around the Web. Highlights [...]
I am not the first person to note the irony, but let me say it again: if we went to war in Iraq for cheap oil we got screwed. The price for a barrel of oil just topped $72 and it doesn’t seem to be going down significantly any time soon. As a result, the [...]
Those interested in the intersection of faith and science, might want to check out the Speaking of Faith website and listen in on their recent broadcast on Quarks and Creation. Here is the teaser: Science and religion are often pitted against one another; but how do they complement, rather than contradict, one another? We learn [...]