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June 12, 2023In “Why Liberalism Failed” (2018), Patrick Deneen contended that the American left and right adhere to the same broad philosophy and that this bipartisan consensus is...
May 9, 2023Admiring biographers have always tended to assign their own metaphysical views to their subjects, and this is especially so with Abraham Lincoln. William Herndon,...
April 27, 2023In 2010 the British music critic Norman Lebrecht published “Why Mahler?” The book was an attempt to explain why the symphonies of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) inspired both...
April 3, 2023Some books may fairly be called intimidating. They seem to attest to their own authority and almost defy the reader to question their judgments. Such a work is “The Reopening...
February 2, 2023The story of David Koresh and the siege of the Branch Davidians’ compound near Waco, Texas, is by turns gripping, harrowing and nauseating. The initial raid of the compound,...
