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Politics: When Pundits Hold Court
Via: Vic Eldred
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4 years ago
When Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement in 2018, giving President Trump a second opportunity to elevate a judge to the Supreme Court, Ian Millhiser posted this charming reflection on...
‘Boomers’ Review: Eminent Aquarians
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4 years ago
It is the commonest pattern in politics and society: Peace and prosperity, though good in themselves and furthering of human flourishing, eventually give place to arrogance, decadence and...
The 10 Best Books of 2021 - WSJ
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4 years ago
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler By Rebecca Donner | Little, Brown Mildred Harnack, a...
‘The Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment’ Review: The Letter and the Spirit
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4 years ago
Measured against the sweep of Anglo-American legal history, judicial review—the power of unelected judges to invalidate, as contrary to higher law, an act of the legislature—was a radical...
New Trump book does $1M in sales in first 24 hours
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4 years ago
Even for former President Donald Trump, the fast pace of sales of his first post-White House book has been impressive. His new publisher, Winning Team, said that the sales of Our Journey...
‘Look’ Review: The Big Picture
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4 years ago
America’s great glossy magazines were once at the pulsing heart of popular culture. Millions of readers devoured their copies of Life, Look, the Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, the New Yorker,...
‘Ends of War’ Review: The Myth of Appomattox
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4 years ago
When Robert E. Lee surrendered his battered Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Virginia’s Appomattox Court House on Palm Sunday, April 9, 1865, the flames fanning the Civil War were...
‘The Dying Citizen’ Review: Keystone of the Republic
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4 years ago
In his 2001 book “Carnage and Culture,” Victor Davis Hanson sought to explain the West’s military superiority over the previous 2,500 years, from the democratic city-states of ancient Greece to...