"Traffic," and the War on Drugs by Gary Rosen The critically acclaimed movie is original, engaging, and wrong.
Constantine’s Sword by James Carroll by Robert S. Wistrich The troubled 2,000-year history of relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Jews has been the subject of numerous…
Paradoxes of Painting by David Gelernter How can a terrible time for painting be a marvelous time for painters?
Rights for Rodents by Damon Linker If the activists have their way, animals will get their Magna Carta--and human beings will suffer.
The “Diversity” Defense by Jason L. Riley The new rationale for racial preferences is as spurious and socially poisonous as the old.
The First Measured Century by Theodore Caplow, Louis Hicks, and Ben J. Wattenberg by Noah D. Oppenheim
The Strange Adventures of Jacob d’Ancona by Hillel Halkin Is a memoir of China purportedly written by a 13th-century Jewish merchant authentic? And if not, what then?
What Brings a World into Being? by David Berlinski Information--from words on a page to the genetic code to the elementary particles in the cosmos--seems to explain a lot;…
Whatever Happened to Bing Crosby by Terry Teachout It is understandable--if also unfortunate--that a man who once dominated American popular culture has largely faded from view.