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Blue Walls Falling Down October 09, 2024
An Excerpt from Blue Walls Falling Down: A NovelStella Tęsknota was ready to marry Blake Yourrick, the troubled if earnest protagonist of Infinite Regress. In this stand-alone novel (and loose sequel), set after Blake abruptly—and inexplicably—breaks...
The Hotel Martinez September 25, 2024
Today, the Hotel Martinez proudly stands as the premiere focal point for the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Over the decades, many of the cinema’s greatest storytellers have passed through its illustrious doors. But within its walls lurks an untol...
Vivienne September 12, 2024
Vesta Furio is grinding her teeth as she often does in the deep sleep hour before waking. Franz, whom her father named after the artist Franz Kline, sleeps beside her, and the crepuscular sounds emanating from her mouth stir him awake. He leaves the ...
Celebrating the Centennial of the Most Underappreciated American of Our Time September 06, 2024
The following essay is adapted from the recently released book Lessons in Liberty: Thirty Rules for Living from Ten Extraordinary Americans (HarperCollins) September 7th marks the one-hundredth birthday of one of the most extraordinary and inspiring...
Keeping the Republic April 04, 2024
“The Constitution Is Broken And Should Not Be Reclaimed.” This headline from a New York Times editorial written by two law professors (from Harvard and Yale), is simply a more hyperbolic expression of a point of view that has become increasingly prom...
USA Hockey December 08, 2023
From Legacy on Ice: Blake Geoffrion and the Fastest Game on Earth by Sam Jefferies. Reprinted by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press. © 2023 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved. Gloves and st...
Independence Forever October 13, 2023
"Independence Forever" is excerpted from What America Is: The Moral Logic of the American Revolution and Other Essays by C. Bradley Thompson.In 1826, a month before he died, John Adams was asked to deliver a toast to honor a local July 4th celebratio...
An Unpublished Interview With Gabriel García Márquez October 05, 2023
The excerpts that follow are part of an extensive conversation with Gabriel García Márquez, which I recorded on May 6, 1994, in Havana, Cuba, with the participation of the recently-deceased journalist Mauricio Vicent. The Colombian novelist was 67 ye...
Coded to Kill August 04, 2023
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. government is poised to adopt a nationwide system for Electronic Health Records that uses the latest advances in advanced artificial intelligence to immediately identify emerging diseases and vastly improve ...
How to Regain America's Vitality March 03, 2023
This piece is adapted from "America and the Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitality in an Age of Decay". Reprinted with the permission of the publisher, Encounter Books. Marc Andreessen, the venture capitalist, wrote a blogpost in early 2020...
The Next American Economy November 14, 2022
In few areas is economic policy’s inseparability from politics more manifest than in global trade. In the period immediately following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, for example, trade debates within the Washington Administration became quick...
The Case for a New Exceptionalism November 06, 2022
The following is an excerpt from the introduction to “Why America Matters,” published in October 2022 and available here.Many years ago, as a Gen X twenty-something and Rage Against the Machine fan, I would sing along to “Testify,” a song I recognize...
The General and Mrs. Hemingway November 01, 2022
The following is an adapted excerpt from “Taking Berlin: The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich” by Martin Dugard.General James Gavin was a dangerous man.Tall, powerful, charismatic. Abandoned by his parents at age two and adopted by a coal miner....
Fishing a Watershed September 21, 2022
“Fishing a Watershed” is excerpted from THE SEARCH FOR THE GENUINE © 2022 by James T. Harrison Trust. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher, Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Inc. All rights reserved.Eight years ago I quit teaching ...
Virtue and Property September 07, 2022
Wealth, if managed well, can be a positive good, not just a necessary evil....
Please Review Books September 06, 2022
Many of the publications that still discuss books will treat them like interchangeable consumer items. There are lists of most anticipated, various rankings, and soft profiles of temporarily anointed authors. Literary Hub, a daily literary website la...
There Must be Normal Equivalency in U.S.-Middle East Policy July 15, 2022
This is an adapted excerpt from "Let My People Know: The Incredible Story of Middle East Peace—and What Lies Ahead" (Encounter Books, July 12). The author, Aryeh Lightstone, served as senior adviser to the U.S. Ambassador to Israel and special envoy ...
Plutocratic Socialism July 12, 2022
The American constitutional order assumes a populace of property owners, a middle class whose virtues provide the necessary ballast to support our republic. Our founders imagined strong communities, strong families, and independent citizens capable o...
Progressive Conservatives Will Restore the American Dream July 12, 2022
The following essay is adapted from "Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America's Natural Ruling Party" (Encounter Books)As we age, we slip softly from one country to another, and what began in innocence led down a path littered wi...
Accusations of Racism Have Lost All Meaning May 10, 2022
The War on the West is Douglas Murray’s latest blast against loony left wokery, chiefly in the areas of race and “social justice.” “This is not like earlier wars,” he writes. “It is a cultural war, and it is being waged remorselessly against all the ...
Communist China Has Thrown Out the Old Rules of War April 18, 2022
When I first read the Chinese war manual “Unrestricted Warfare” in 1999, I thought it was wacky. I was flying B-2 Stealth bombers out of Whiteman Air Force Base in western Missouri and reading a lot about war. As an Air Force officer, I thought it wa...
EXCERPT: Inside Batali/Bastianach Restaurant Empire November 12, 2021
Kim Reed was helping homebound elderly patients as a social worker in the early 2000s when she picked up a part-time hostess job at Babbo, the Greenwich Village restaurant at the center of what was Mario Batali’s restaurant empire. She created the ni...
EXCERPT: Transcendentalists and Their World November 12, 2021
1837 was not a good year to graduate from college. Following the financial panic that spring, banks contracted credit and the economy shrank. By October, the Concord Bank had reduced its lending by more than $20,000, on a downward course to a four-ye...
EXCERPT: The Legendary Meeting of Plant and Page November 10, 2021
On July 20, 1968, Robert Plant was performing at a teachers’ training college in Walsall, in the West Midlands, with a rather unimpressive group called Obs-Tweedle. The audience was practically nonexistent, just a handful of kids who were already pre...
What the Exodus Tells Us About Free Will March 27, 2021
The following piece is an excerpt from “ The Telling: How Judaism's Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Life” by Mark Gerson.In the story of Exodus, which recounts the Israelites’ flight to freedom, readers are told that the heart of the oppressive...
